LGBTQ activist lawyer dies after setting himself on fire in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park
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David Buckel left a suicide note stating, in part, “My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves.” He was a nationally known LGBTQ rights advocate and lead attorney in the case involving transgender murder victim Brandon Teena.