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Counter says the FAC advocated holding a panelon violence against gays in the wake of theMatthew Shepard's death instead of the Queers ofColor Perform-a-Rama...
...this quaint quadrangular green, situated near such serenely-labeled streets like Garden and Shepard, ever become the target of such violent condemnation by Harvard's first-years...
...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 student, was beaten and left to die on a fence in Wyoming last October, an incident that sparked national outrage. Even Wyoming failed to pass hate-crime legislation in the wake of the Shepard lynching. Like Shepard, Gaither did not hesitate to admit being gay, though he adhered...
Recently, Mr. Franken, I've been very disturbed about three very violent acts of hatred we've seen in America. First there was Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old boy who was 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...
...must be 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...