Former Gay Pride marshal faces triple-murder charges
Dana Rivers, a “ male-to-female ” transgender activist who was once an “honorary marshal” for San Francisco ’s annual homosexual “pride” parade, was arrested earlier this month on triple-murder charges in Oakland, Calif. The Sacramento Bee reported Nov. 16: “Dana Rivers, 61, of San Jose was arrested early Friday in Oakland on suspicion of killing Patricia Wright , 57; Wright’s wife, Charlotte Reed, 56; and the couple’s 19-year-old son, Toto Diambu-Wright. Police said the two women were both stabbed and shot, and the man was stabbed. They were pronounced dead at the scene. “Police said Rivers was covered in blood and about to ride away on Reed’s motorcycle when she was arrested.” Rivers, formerly David Wakefield, became a “transgender” activist in 1999 after getting national attention for being suspended from his high school teaching job for arriving in the new school year dressed and living as a “woman” and affirming his new “female” identity to students. Triple-mur