other things, the establishment of a gay and lesbian community center, that police officers to patrol the Newark Penn Station/Broad Street corridor 24-hours a day, the creation of an LGBT advisory council to the mayor, and that the school board be held accountable for the lack of concern and compassion when dealing with students at Westside High School (which Gunn attended) immediately following the murder. The Newark Pride Alliance, an LGBT advocacy group, was founded in the wake of Gunn's murder. References External links She didn't have to die by Keith Boykin Sakia Gunn Remembered by Keith Boykin Sakia Gunn's Killer Pleads Guilty The Sakia Gunn Film Project The poem "The Other Black Man" by T. Miller references Sakia Gunn 1987 births 2003 deaths 2003 in LGBT history 2003 in New Jersey 2003 murders in the United States 20th-century LGBT people 21st century in Newark, New Jersey American victims of anti-LGBT hate crimes Deaths by stabbing in the United States Female murder victims History of Newark, New Jersey History of women in New Jersey Lesbians Lesbophobic violence LGBT African Americans LGBT history in New Jersey LGBT people from New Jersey May 2003 events in the United States Murdered African-American people People murdered in New Jersey