Police open homicide investigation after LGBT+ rights hero found dead in landfill
Diaz-Johnston, 54, was one of those who fought for the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Florida.
In 2014, he and his husband were among six same-sex couples who sued the Miami-Dade County clerk’s office for the right to marry.
At the time, Diaz-Johnston said that it was “not only a question of love and wanting to express our love and have the benefits that everyone else has in the state, but it’s an issue of equality, and it’s a civil rights issue”.
The couples won their case in 2015, meaning that the county legalised marriage equality months before the rest of the US.
Diaz-Johnston was last seen on 3 January, and on Saturday, 8 January, he was tragically found dead in a landfill in Baker, Florida.
His death is being treated as a homicide, and his funeral was held on Friday, 14 January.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/01/15/jorge-diaz-johnston-police-homicide-florida/
