A well-known AIDS activist vacationing in Mexico was murdered by a man angry that she refused to pay for sex, Mexican authorities said Tuesday.
The murder devastated Madison’s gay community, where Felicia Melton-Smyth was a fundraiser for the AIDS Network and a fixture at the gay-friendly Shamrock Bar. Friends were already working Tuesday to set up a charitable foundation in her name.
….She worked during the day in the billing department for the University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation.