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KILLG OF BLACK, GAY OLE MISS STUNT HAS SCHOOL'S LGBTQ MUNY 'TERRIFIED,' HIS FORMER ROOMMATE SAYS
The LGBTQ muny at the Universy of Mississippi is "terrified" followg what prosecutors say was the July murr of Jimmie "Jay" Lee, a 20-year-old gay, Black stunt, his former roommate told Insir. "For a lot of gay people there, we're sred, " said Braylyn Johnson, a Black former stunt at Ole Miss who intifi as a member of the LGBTQ muny. "Especially for gay Black men.
"There are people who don't want to e back to school ls that two weeks bee of how sred they are, " she the fear Lee's killg has ed, his ath has h particularly hard bee as a "Black, gay man Mississippi" who equently performed drag unr the name Jay Divaa, he was an spiratn to other queer people Oxford, where the Universy of Mississippi is loted, Johnson said — rememberg her iend as always drsed to the n a full face of makp.
"He wanted to make Oxford his home, and for him to do that, was gog to take him to be that advote and to be that change to make fortable, not tolerated, for gay people to live here, fortable for to live here, " Johson said. In social media posts reviewed by CNN and imag released by thori, although Lee drs women’s clothg and makp some pictur and vios, Lee wr that he intifi as a gay male.