A Letter from Bob from Bob’s TGirls
I lost two of my friends Laura and Sylvia Boots on the same day in March 2002 when Sylvia accidentally killed Laura with a pistol. Sylvia had a longstanding feud with another transsexual Tonya. I’m not going to get into all the things Tonya did and had done to Sylvia here. But one Sunday evening Sylvia saw Tonya, Laura and another friend Monica at the Yukon Mining Company restaurant, which was a 24 hour diner and popular after hours transgender hangout in West Hollywood.
The way I see it is that Sylvia decided to do something to alter Tonya’s behavior toward her. Sylvia caught Tonya in the restroom and beat her up some. They were kicked out of the restaurant. Then Sylvia made a fateful decision. She went back to her vehicle and got a pistol. She pulled it on Tonya outside the restaurant and pointed it at her. Laura and Monica were standing on either side of Tonya. An altercation ensued. Tonya grabbed the gun and they struggled with it. During the struggle, it went off and hit Laura. Laura was rushed to the hospital and Sylvia was arrested.
I received a phone call shortly after this happened as other friends were in the restaurant and the word spread fast. A few friends and I including Laura’s roommate Paulina met up and went to Cedar’s Sinai together. There must have been about a dozen of us in a waiting room when the doctor came in and announced that Laura was dead.
The end result was Laura lost her life. Sylvia was sentenced to 45 years to life. Paulina who was getting cleaned up off drugs with Laura’s help went back to being a drug addict. And Tonya who instigated the whole thing walked away. The scene was never the same here in LA again. All of this because of one catty, hateful bitch. Sylvia was always nice with me and of all the girls I know she’s not one I would have picked as likely to be involved in something like that. I was much closer to Laura. We had a casual friendship, but close enough that she liked introducing me to people as her husband. I’ll always miss her.
There is also a rumor that Tonya died a year or two ago due to complications from silicone pumping. Ironically Tonya was famous for pumping girls. Laura’s tush was actually Tonya’s best work. But Tonya is also alleged to have accidentally killed a couple of girls and injured others.
-Bob from Bobs-TGirls.com
5 thoughts on “A Letter from Bob from Bob’s TGirls”
a shame to hear of all. how come we still seem to see neew material from sylvia boots if she died in 2002 as mentioned? was that date a typo?
also boots the one with the magic voice and magic stick has been gone since feb 08?
seemingly new releases since then.
lastima,
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this was a terrible event and, it’s true, the west hollywood scene just seemed to shrink away and die after the tragedy. i always thought that it was sylvia boots who was killed – the fact that she got 45 years to life for an accidental shooting is equally shocking. justice clearly didn’t give the benefit of doubt or compassion to a transgendered defendant. this letter from bob clarified the whole incident. sad, sad, sad. thank you, bob, for posting. to this day i can’t go past the yukon restaurant without thinking of what happened there.
Je vous écrit de Suisse.
La justice américaine est très sévère.
45 ans de prison pour un homicide involontaire, c’est beaucoup trop sévère.
En Suisse, je pense qu’elle aurait eu une peine de prison de 10 à 15 ans.
Sylvia is a beautiful person both on the inside and out. I had the priviledge of getting to know her prior to my transition back in the 90’s. Sylvia and I hit it off from the very start. I’m Puerto Rican and she’s Cuban! It wasn’t everyday u ran into someone Hispanic frm the Caribbean in Los Angeles. I was barely starting out in my transition and had done a few twink vid’s as a boy back then. I have lot’s of memories of us hanging out together on set and off. I was introduced to her by Casting Director and Gay Porn Actor at the time Gino Gultier who has also remained my best friend since 1997. I also relocated to NYC in 2000 and had lost communication with her. I saw her one more time in 2002 when I revisiting L.A., Amara aka Sylvia Boots was jumped by a group of t-girls @ The Arena on Santa Monica Blvd and all of them were expelled from the club. I headed back to New York and fast forward one year later and that’s whn I come to find out that the group of girls who jumped her at The Arena were the same girls from the 2003 incident. I feel bad about what happened to the other girl but that shit was not deliberate and the only reason Sylvia got that much time was out of pure prejudice on the part of prosecutors and jurors.
45-life for a accidental shooting. That’s bullshit.