MIAMI | Scott Hall has already assembled the names of nearly 600 gay victims of hate crimes, and more keep getting added to the list.

The latest: Lawrence King, a 15-year-old shot to death in Oxnard, Calif., by a schoolmate who targeted him for wearing girl's clothing.

If Hall has his way, King and the rest of the names will one day be etched on a traveling memorial to those targeted for being gay.

He plans to preview the memorial at the Winter Party Festival, a massive annual gathering of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals that began Saturday on Miami's South Beach.

Hall knows the sting of violence.

Someone hit him in the head with a baseball bat 25 years ago when he was leaving a gay bar in Melbourne, he said.

That didn't prompt his desire to honor other, less fortunate victims of gay violence.

It was the March 2007 death of Ryan Keith Skipper of Winter Haven - who was stabbed 20 times and dumped on a roadside in Polk County - that spurred Hall to create the Gay American Heroes Foundation.

The Cocoa Beach auctioneer has raised about $25,000 for the traveling memorial, which he envisions would feature 10-foot wide, 7-foot-high panels with the names and pictures of the victims.

Skipper's stepfather, Lynn Mulder, 49, of Auburndale, said he hopes the memorial becomes a reality. "It will help awareness all across the nation," he said.

Skipper's family plans to attend the unveiling of a model of the memorial Friday at the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens.

The project has received the support of numerous gay luminaries, including singer Cyndi Lauper and U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.

Other victims' families are helping the project as well.

"I hope we can see this memorial in every town and every city in the United States," said Elke Kennedy, whose son, Sean, was killed by a punch to the face in Greenville, S.C., in 2007.