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   Gemmel Moore. Timothy Dean. These are the names of two Black,   
   queer men found dead in a white, gay man’s apartment.   
      
   I’m an advocate and a white, queer person, and I’ve seen this   
   story get some traction in some places on my social media feeds.   
   But it hasn’t been enough, mainstream media has covered it only   
   minimally, and not enough of us in the movements to end violence   
   are naming sexual violence as a central issue to what is   
   happening here. We need to actively name the sexual violence,   
   racism, classism, and homophobia that have conspired here to   
   harm and kill Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean, and that have so   
   far prevented any accountability through the criminal justice   
   system.   
      
   Here are some key articles to make sure you’re caught up. (The   
   stories that the articles cover can be triggering, especially   
   for those who have experienced trauma related to racism,   
   homophobia, and sexual violence.)   
      
   On August 7, 2017, WeHo Times published a breaking report about   
   Gemmel Moore’s death and the LA County Coroner’s report that it   
   was an accidental overdose: Sex, Politics, Meth and Death in   
   West Hollywood.   
      
   LaTisha Nixon says she learned that her son, who was unemployed,   
   had recently been doing sex work. She told the WeHo Times that   
   her son’s friend was also engaged in similar activity—and that   
   they had a client in common.   
      
   “When he calmed down, he told me that Ed Buck was one of my   
   son’s clients and that Ed Buck was one of his clients as well,”   
   Nixon said. “[Buck] would have my son to go out to… Santa Monica   
   Boulevard looking for young gay Black guys so he could inject   
   them with drugs, see their reaction and how [they] would react   
   and take pictures of them.”   
      
   On August 25, 2017, the LA Times published an article   
   highlighting the ways race and class impacted the investigation:   
   In West Hollywood, gulf between young Black man and wealthy   
   white political donor fuels concern about death investigation   
      
   Moore was 26, Black and poor. He had been homeless and had   
   worked as an escort. Buck was 62, white and wealthy, a well-   
   known figure in LGBTQ political circles.   
      
   Now, Moore's family and friends — who have questioned whether   
   the drugs that killed him were self-administered — are wondering   
   whether those differences in race, class and connections factor   
   into how the investigation into his death is being handled.   
      
   On January 7, 2019, the Advocate posted the developing story   
   that another Black man (later identified as 55-year old Timothy   
   Dean) was found dead in Ed Buck’s apartment: Another Black Man   
   Has Died in the Home of Democratic Donor Ed Buck   
      
   Since Moore's death was classified as an accidental overdose,   
   numerous young Black gay men have alleged that Buck has a fetish   
   for shooting drugs into Black men he picks up off the street or   
   on hookup sites. Moore had written about Buck injecting him with   
   dangerous drugs before his death.   
      
   On January 11, 2019, NBC News published an interview with   
   Jasmyne Cannick, who has consistently covered the story since   
   Gemmel Moore was found dead in Ed Buck’s apartment (transgender   
   activist Ashlee Marie Preston also contributed insight): 'Serial   
   predator': L.A. writer has been sounding alarm on Ed Buck for   
   over a year   
      
   “Our stories aren’t told and our lives are seen as expendable.   
   It’s very easy to write off someone who dies of a drug overdose   
   who was working as a sex worker, but Gemmel was as much a part   
   of our community as the many other young men like him,” said   
   Cannick, who like both Moore and Dean is Black and gay. “It may   
   not be pretty, but white gay men taking advantage of young Black   
   men in our community is not unusual—it’s just not talked about   
   in mainstream America.”   
      
   “There's a larger story there that people aren't looking at,   
   Preston said. “It’s really about money, power, chemsex culture,   
   and raceplay, and it’s this underground thing that many people   
   aren’t talking about, and essentially it’s murder rebranded.”   
      
   As people working to prevent and respond to sexual violence, we   
   need to see what’s happening here as our issue also. There are a   
   lot of sexual violence topics at play in Moore’s and Dean’s   
   stories: racism and sexual violence, classism and sexual   
   violence, abuse and hookup apps, the vulnerability of sex   
   workers, issues of housing and sexual violence, addiction and   
      
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