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Lawrence King
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Date: 2008/02/18 21:54
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By: Skoosh
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For those of you who may not have heard of this already. i wanted to make you all aware (not that any of you arent unfortunently >.> ) just how BAD homophobia gets.
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Lawrence King was a self-identified gay student who attended Green Junior High in Oxnard, California. His feminine gender expression “was freaking the guys out” according to one of his classmates.
Apparently, for this, he had to die.
On Tuesday morning Lawrence was shot at point blank range in his eighth grade English class by a boy who had apparently been one of his anti-LGBT tormentors. Now he’s going to die once they turn the machines off, which they may have already done by the time you get this message.
Ten years ago a gay college student, Matthew Shepard, was tied to a fence and beaten to death. Today, it’s a gay junior high student being shot in the head. When will we, as a society, say enough is enough?
We know that this student was a repeated target of classmates based on his sexual orientation and gender expression, and we know that such harassment can escalate to greater acts of violence. It is long past time to start addressing anti-LGBT bullying and harassment directly, and to start naming this problem, which threatens the safety of all students in school.
The teenager sometimes wore feminine clothing and makeup, and proclaimed he was gay, students said. Some of the male students were bothered by his appearance, calling it a distraction, several students said.
"He would come to school in high-heeled boots, makeup, jewelry and painted nails -- the whole thing," said Michael Sweeney, 13, an eighth-grader. "That was freaking the guys out."
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I ask all of you now, How many more is it going to take? I think its time to put an end to this nonsense. And blesses be to Lawrence, may he find peace in the Summerlands
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