My hometown of San Diego has been an unfortunate hub of anti-LGBT activity, but the violence has escalated. And now a gay man is dead.
The body of Seaman August Provost of Houston, Texas, was discovered about 3:30 a.m. on the western edge of the base, said Doug Sayers, a spokesman for Navy Region Southwest.
An autopsy was completed yesterday, but authorities were waiting for results of toxicology tests to determine a cause of death.
A “person of interest” was being held in the Navy brig at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. No charges have been filed.
. . . Provost’s boyfriend, Kaether Cordero, said yesterday that Provost was openly gay but kept his private life quiet for the most part.
“People who he was friends with, I knew that they knew,” Cordero said from Houston. “He didn’t care that they knew. He trusted them.”
Provost had recently complained to his family that someone was harassing and bothering him, and they advised him to tell his supervisor, said his sister, Akalia. [San Diego Union-Tribune]
Local LGBT activists said sources told them that Provost worked as a guard for Assault Craft Unit 5 at Camp Pendleton. The sources also said the Provost had been shot and burned.
Watch the local NBC station’s coverage of the crime.
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