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Rita Hester
1963–1998
United States
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Biography
Rita Hester (30 November 1963 – 28 November 1998) was an African-American transgender woman who was murdered in Allston (Boston), Massachusetts, on November 28, 1998. Hester was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1964. She moved to Boston in her early twenties and became involved in the local rock community.
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