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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rights groups are drawing comparisons between the deaths of Billy Jack Gaither, a 39-year-old Alabama man, and that of Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard. It's pretty hard not to. Both gay men, they were brutally slaughtered by young toughs who freely admitted they were motivated by their animosity toward their victim's sexuality. Gaither's killers told police they plotted his killing after the mild-mannered textile worker made a sexual advance. After luring him to secluded boat ramp February 19, the killers bludgeoned him with an ax handle and then put him on a pyre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Gay Hate Killing Raises Troubling Questions | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...years ago, she scared the health-care industry into lowering my premiums about 10%. I am a 65-year-old, lifelong Republican, but I will vote for Hillary if she heads the Democratic ticket--even if she is running against Elizabeth Dole, my first-choice Republican candidate. WILLIAM S. GAITHER Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1998 | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...OTIS GAITHER, 23; LANCASTER, SOUTH CAROLINA; construction worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

Returning from a night out, Gaither saw flames soaring from a mobile home. The young black man smashed through the door to pull out Larry Leroy Whitten, 44, then revived the white man with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, heedless of the Confederate battle flag fluttering overhead. Gaither was hailed for his race-blind heroism, but says, "I don't deserve the attention. Someone would do the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...these avid knitting buffs, nothing quite compares to creating their own clothing from scratch. Gaither values her knitwork as "wearable...

Author: By Richard Chiang, | Title: For the Moment | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

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