Word: shepards
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...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...
...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...
...that do not accompany openly discussing conservative political beliefs. Queer youth are thrown out by their parents; they are often forced to live in isolation from families that want no contact with them; and they are at risk of the kind of violence that ended the lives of Matthew Shepard and Rita Hester. "Coming out" as a conservative holds no such risks, and last Thursday's event appropriates that pain without taking responsibility for it. NICOLE L. DEBLOST '99 March 2, 1999 The author is the co-chair of the BGLTSA...
...that do not accompany openly discussing conservative political beliefs. Queer youth are thrown out by their parents; they are often forced to live in isolation from families that want no contact with them; and they are at risk of the kind of violence that ended the lives of Matthew Shepard and Rita Hester. "Coming out" as a conservative holds no such risks, and last Thursday's event appropriates that pain without taking responsibility...
There can be no question of the deplorable nature of all hate-motivated crime, particularly violent acts as in the case of Matthew Shepard...