Several thousand people, according to some estimates, gathered in the gay neighbourhood of Oklahoma City on Saturday 24th February, to mourn the death of Nex Benedict, a non-binary teenager murdered by violent heterosexual students at their high school. LGBTQIA magazine The Advocate reports that "LBGTQ+ supporters and activists called for action, the event darkened not only by the death of the Owasso teen, but also by recent inflammatory comments from a state government official calling the state’s LBGTQ+ citizens “filth.” Nicole