Mourners gathered at a vigil in Chicago on Sunday to remember transgender advocate Elise Malary, who had been an active member of the LGBTQ community in nearby Evanston, Illinois.
Fliers for missing activist Elise Malary are distributed near the CTA Howard Red Line station on March 17, 2022, in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood.
Friends, neighbors and even strangers joined Sunday’s event to light candles for Malary, 31, who dedicated her life to advocating for the LGBTQ community, particularly Black transgender women,Parker Haynes, who served on the board of the LGBTQ nonprofit group Chicago Therapy Collective with Malary, said her death has left a void that can’t be filled.
“I just learned a lot about how to live and fight, and Elise had a really beautiful way of wording things,” he said. In a statement released over the weekend, Evanston police said they was continuing to investigate. They said Monday that foul play is not suspected.
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