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...tied to a fence in Laramie, Wyo. and left to die because he was gay. Then there was James Byrd Jr. of Jasper, Texas, a man who was tied to a pick-up truck and dragged to his death because he was black. And now there is Billy Jack Gaither, a man from Sylacauga, Ala. who was clubbed to death with an ax handle and thrown onto a pyre of burning tires because...
...very sorry, too, millions of dollars worth of sorry. But how can we deny the fact that to put Greaseman back on the air would be to endorse the kind of disgusting drivel which can lead, at its very worst, to the brutal murders of innocent people? Shepard and Gaither were not killed because of the color of their skin, but they suffered from ignorant hatred...
Hildebran, who helps run a hotline that deals with sexual orientation, HIV and the law, said small slurs and insults can be indicators of more violent acts such as the Shepard and Gaither incidents...
...wake of a rash of hate crimes against gays--BGLTSA Co-Chair Adam A. Sofen '01 cited the October murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard in Wyoming, Alabama resident Billy Jack Gaither's violent death last month after being beaten with an axe handle, and last week's attack on a gay student at Tufts College leaving an off-campus party--Hildebran and Pars-Avila discussed their professional experiences with anti-gay violence...
...Gaither's killing may add momentum to efforts to include sexual orientation in hate-crime legislation, though congressional Republicans have resisted creating federal hate-crime laws covering gays. Then there's the states; 40 have hate-crime laws, but only 21 cover gays. Meanwhile, in a society that remains conflicted over homosexuality, gay citizens increasingly fear for their lives...