San
Francisco Chronicle
Slain Newark Teen Balanced Between Two Worlds
Three Charged in Death of
Youth Who Was Living His Dream as a Female
Eddie 'Gwen' Araujo, shown dressed as
a young woman in a
recent family photograph, holds his niece Arianna.
He came
out to his family at 14 and had taken to calling himself
Gwen.
The Men Charged
in Brutally Beating Eddie 'Gwen' Araujo to
Death.
From left: Jose
Merel, Michael Magidson and Jaron Nabors.
[Chronicle photo
by Paul Chinn]
Eddie "Gwen' Araujo's Body Was Buried
in Sierra.
Slain Teen is
'My Angel Now'
Boy Who Lived as Girl is
Eulogized
Sylvia Guerrero,
mother of Eddie "Gwen" Araujo, comforts his grandmother
during services
at St. Edward's Catholic Church in Newark.
[Chronicle Photo
by Gina Gayle]
Cast members of Newark Memorial
High School's "Laramie Project,"
a play about the beating death of gay student Matthew Shepard in
Wyoming, attend Araujo's funeral in their angel costumes.
[Chronicle Photo by Gina
Gayle]
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