Word: gay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christopher E. Holloway '01, a co-coordinator of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance resource room in Holworthy, says he "rarely" sees some of his neighbors entering the oft-closed doors in Holworthy basement...
...Coosa County Sheriff's Deputy Al Bradley, "they took him out of the trunk, took an ax handle and beat him to death." They set two old tires aflame, says Bradley, "then they put the body on the fire." They did it all, the deputy says, because Gaither was gay...
Gaither's death has become a rallying point for gay-rights organizations' and state legislators' pushing a bill that would extend Alabama's three-year-old hate-crimes law beyond race, color, religion and national origin to cover crimes related to sexual orientation as well. "It's unfortunate that somebody had to lose his life in order for this legislation to pick up momentum here in the state of Alabama," says state Representative Alvin Holmes, who failed to get the original law amended when it was passed in 1996. Holmes filed for extending the law after Matthew Shepard, a gay...
...message people are getting is that gay people are second-class citizens," says Tracey Conaty, spokesperson for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force...
Pellegrini's best known class is English 197, Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Studies, a whirlwind journey through the heart of the construction of gay and lesbian identity, where students learn to love Foucault and disdain any manifestation of bourgeois morality...