Young, Gay and Murred Junr High

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A march anized by stunts foc on tolerance the wake of the fatal shootg of an openly gay boy.

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VALENTE ROAD: THE STORY OF MURRED GAY TEEN LAWRENCE KG

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In 2008, Lawrence "Larry" Kg, 15 years-old and openly gay was shot and killed by his 14 year old classmate Brandon McInerney after Larry asked Brandon to be his Valente.

- California teenager Brandon McInerney, who plead guilty to send-gree murr the killg of a gay stunt, was sentenced Monday to 21 years prison.

CALIF. TEEN BRANDON MCINERNEY SENTENCED TO 21 YEARS FOR POT-BLANK MURR OF GAY CLASSMATE

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Not so much his sexualy, which I didn't know until really much later when I started workg wh the gay and lbian center Los Angel.... Larry was shed to the hospal, where he died two days later of bra Larry Kg shootg beme the most proment gay-bias crime sce the murr of Matthew Shepard 10 years ago.

YOUNG, GAY AND MURRED JUNR HIGH

Three years ago, 15-year-old Lawrence Kg was shot a Southern California classroom. Now, his acced murrer's trial is brgg natnal attentn to the issue of gay bullyg. * larry king gay teen *

California's Supreme Court has jt legalized gay marriage. There are gay characters on popular TV shows such as "Gossip Girl" and "Ugly Betty, " and no one seems to notice. Kids like Larry are so fortable wh the ncept of beg openly gay that they are g out younger and younger.

One study found that the average age when kids self-intify as gay has tumbled to 13. Even as homosexualy has bee more accepted, the prospect of beg openly gay middle school rais a troublg set of issu. "I said, 'Larry, are you gay?

GAY TEEN LARRY KG PHED BOUNDARI BEFORE HE WAS SHOT

The Larry book talked about how he was gay and falsely asserted that he drsed Goth and drag. Kids nearby tnted him for beg gay. " But the therapist told Greg he thought that Larry was jt tryg to get attentn and might not unrstand what meant to be gay.

MURRED GAY TEEN LARRY KG HARASSED HIS MURRER SAYS SAVE CALIFORNIA

Every day a driver would take Larry to school, and some weeks he went to nearby Ventura, where he attend gay youth-group meetgs.

Epste, a lm, brown-haired woman wh bifols, was openly gay to her lleagu, and although she was generally not out to her stunts, she kept a picture of her partner on her sk that some stunts saw.

One teacher plas that by beg openly gay and discsg her girliend (prumably, no one would have plaed if she had talked about a hband), Epste brought the subject of sex to school. "I thk that she was assertg her beliefs for gay rights. For tweens, talkg about beg gay isn't really about sex.

LARRY KG: GAY TEEN'S HIGH HEELS AND MAKP SET OFF MURRO SOCAL HIGH SCHOOL ATTACK?

"Part of the reason why people are g out earlier is they have the word 'gay, ' and they know explas the feelg. More than 3, 600 high schools sponsor gay-straight allianc signed to foster acceptance of gay stunts, but only 110 middle schools have them. She was approached by several boys her class who said that Larry had started tntg them the halls—"I know you want me, " he'd say—and their iends were llg them gay.

The kids are sayg sce Larry is gay, I mt be gay, too, bee I'm his brother'.

AT TEEN'S TRIAL, BULLYG OF GAYS IN FOC

In blue-llar, immigrant Oxnard, there is no gay muny to speak of and generally very ltle public discsn of gay issu, at least until Larry's murr happened. Brandon's iends were there and started jokg that he and Larry were gog to make "gay babi" together.

GAY STUNT'S FLAMBOYANT BEHAVR BLAMED FOR HIS MURR

Deep the dience, an eighth grar turned to one of Brandon's iends and whispered, "That's so gay.

For them, the issue isn't whether Larry was gay or straight—his father still isn't nvced his son was gay—but whether he was allowed to ph the boundari so far that he put himself and others danger.

He's rentful that the gay muny has appropriated his son's murr as part of a larger e. "I thk the gay-rights people want to be a gay-rights issue, bee mak a poster child out of my son, " Kg says. I'm not anti-gay.

TEEN GETS 21 YEARS IN JAIL FOR SHOOTG GAY CLASSMATE

I have a lot of -workers and iends who are gay. On the Inter, he's bee a gay martyr, and this year's Natnal Day of Silence, an annual event created to raise awarens of homophobia, was dited to Larry.

REVIEW: MURR OF GAY TEEN MEMORIALIZED ‘VALENTE ROAD’

School allowed gay teen to wear high heels and make-up weeks before he was shot and killed 'hate crime'It was his right to drs like that, says ex-school officialA teacher gave him her dghter's homeg drs A former California school official has ttified that a gay teen who was shot and killed 2008 phed boundari by wearg women's high-heeled boots, jewellery and make-up to school.

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