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Alright, you and your friend are the drama queens of the thread! Excuse me while I bow out.

LISTEN, NANCY, I DON'T CARE IF YOU ARE OR YOU AREN'T, THIS THREAD REALLY WASN'T ABOUT YOU, WAS IT?

ANYWAY.

SHOOTING SOMEONE FOR "ABERRANT BEHAVIOR" ISN'T TOLERATED, NOR IS SHOOTING SOMEONE FOR SNORING OR TO MAKE UP FOR A CRAPPY CHILDHOOD, IT'S CALLED MURDER AND THEY PUT YOU AWAY FOR IT.

WHAT THIS THREAD WAS ABOUT WAS HOW AWFULLY SAD IT WAS FOR GAYS TO BE MURDERED BECAUSE THEY'VE BECOME SOME KIND OF PROTECTED CLASS OF CITIZENS, LIKE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES WHO DESERVE SPECIAL ATTENTION AND ADDITIONAL PITY WHEN THEY SUFFER FROM THE SAME FATE AS THE REST OF HUMANITY. YOU KNOW HOW MANY PALESTINIAN CHILDREN DIED THIS WEEK? HOW MANY IRAQI MOMS AND SISTERS JSUST GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS? WHY IS SIR BLOWS A LOT ANY MORE DESERVING OF OUR CONCERN SIMPLY BECAUSE HE LIKES TO TAKE IT UP THE POOP CHUTE?

HE WAS MAKING HIMSELF AN INTENTIONAL TARGET AND BECAUSE OF HIS BEHAVIOR SOME SOCIOPATH SCORED A DIRECT HIT, THAT'S HOW IT WORKS IN MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM AND YOU SHOULD BE OLD ENOUGH TO GET THAT BY NOW OR ELSE YOU SHOULDN'T BE USING MOMMY'S BANDWIDTH ALL MORNING.

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Another Gay Teen Killed Yesterday in the United States
by Shane Hensinger
Thu Feb 14, 2008

Yesterday Lawrence King, a 15-year old student at Oxnard High School in Ventura County, California was shot by a fellow student with whom he'd had an ealier "altercation" over the fact that other students perceived him to be gay.

Today Lawrence King was declared brain-dead and placed on a ventilator awaiting the possible donation of his organs. His assailant, another student who was 14-years old, was caught minutes after the shooting and is now in custody.

According to the Los Angeles Times:

The teenager sometimes wore feminine clothing and makeup, and proclaimed he was gay, students said.

"He would come to school in high-heeled boots, makeup, jewelry and painted nails -- the whole thing," said Michael Sweeney, 13, an eighth-grader. "That was freaking the guys out."

"Freaking the guys out." And the response to any perceived threat to a man's masculinity is violence, and not only violence but deadly violence.

Being gay I've gone through my set of trials and tribulations, there isn't a gay person who hasn't. After placing 2nd in state in a diving tournament while in high school I felt confident enough to come out of the closet, at the time I was 17. I was surprised by how well my friend, classmates and teammates took it. But I was also bitterly reminded of the cost of being openly gay when someone spray-painted "fag" on my family's driveway - with an arrow helpfully pointing to our home.

10 - 15 years ago gay teenagers put up with harassment. If may have not condoned but it wasn't condemned, it was the price many thought you should pay for being gay. But today gay youth are coming out earlier and earlier because they don't feel being gay is something to be ashamed of. This is a positive development except when it results in harassment or death - as it did for Lawrence King.

From the LA Times article it appears there was an escalating series of incidents before Lawrence King was shot:

Several students said that a day before the shooting, King and several boys had some kind of altercation during the lunch period.

And again we're reminded of the dangers gay students and youth face in America's schools:

A student thought to be gay was five times as likely to be threatened or injured by a weapon, a 2002 California Department of Education study said.

And at the same time this violence takes place the right-wing, seconded by the Republican party, actively opposes efforts to teach tolerance or to actively prohibit anti-gay bullying. In essence their position is that maybe a beating or two might set a kid "straight." They may not put it in those terms but that's the message they're sending - that to beat up, harass or kill someone because they're gay is not going to be condemned.

I am infuriated by this case and by the fact that when a gay youth decided to be honest about who he is he's met with violence and harassment and in this case - death. If these kinds of incidents don't wake politicians and school officals up to this problem then I don't know what will.

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/14/114259/280/987/456673

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-oxnard14feb14,0,7204301.story

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