Tory Kinnon (born 1978, Train Village) is a member of the Green Party and a prominent gay rights activist. He had been a gay rights activist to various degrees since his teenage years because of discrimination he faced from his peers and even his family growing up. However, he was not drawn into politics until after a traumatizing incident in 2011. Tim van der Heuvel, who was his partner at the time and whom he had known since 2000, was brutally killed heading home after a LGBT conference in Train Village, in a very likely homophobia-motivated attack. After a rather long but rather insuccessful trial, from which the perpetrators of the attack "got away too easily" in Kinnon's opinion, he decided to leave Train Village and moved into the Wikicity Building, Transcity, Noble City in mid-2012.