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These assaults tend to be far more violent than those spurred by robbery--consider the horrible sight of Matthew Shepard beaten repeatedly and left to die on a fence because he was gay, or of James Byrd Jr. dragged to his death behind a truck in Texas last summer because he was black. These are among the most heinous of crimes...
...hate crime isn't just an attack on an individual, but on a whole community. For every Matthew Shepard there are a hundred gay men and lesbians who will be forced back into the closet out of fear. Governments must protect all their citizens by taking a firm stand to prevent such brutal intimidation. NIKKI L. DEBLOSI '99 ADAM A. SOFEN '01 Oct. 16, 1998 The writers are co-chairs of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian Transgender and Supporters' Association. Sofen is a Crimson editor...
Profoundly saddened by the brutal murder of young Matthew Shepard in Wyoming last week, we wish with one unhesitating and single voice to recommit ourselves to the principles of tolerance and mutual respect in our separate communities and in the College as a whole. We consider it fundamental to a university and to our duties as House Masters to honor the dignity and life of every individual without exception--regardless of sexual orientation, religion, gender, class, race or ethnicity. ROBERT AND JANA KIELY, Adams House JAMES AND JANICE WARE, Cabot House WILLIAM AND BARBARA GRAHAM, Currier House EVERETT MENDELSOHN...
...Matthew Shepard was not openly gay. He was just himself. If people asked and he felt comfortable in their presence, he'd say, "I'm gay." There was no flaunting it. After all, he was a freshman at the University of Wyoming in the Cowboy State, a campus where real men were supposed to love football and all-night parties. Shepard, barely 5-ft. 2-in. tall and on a good day 105 lbs., preferred political debate and languages (German and Arabic) to the stereotypical masculine pursuits of his father's alma mater. Shepard said his jaw was recently broken...
Last Tuesday night, at the Fireside Lounge, a campus watering hole where he was a favorite regular, Shepard, 21, was enough at ease to strike up a conversation with two tall, muscular men, Russell Henderson, 21, and Aaron McKinney, 22, both high school dropouts. In fact, Shepard was comfortable enough to get into a pickup truck with them at about midnight. According to the police in Laramie, Wyo., the pair had apparently led him to believe that they too were gay. But all pretense vanished as the journey got under way. Police say the three were barely a half-mile...