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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.
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"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. This is pecially te for Black queer people who face pound discrimatn due to homophobia and racism — a route threat of vlence that is personal and systemic, wh roots much eper than any one se.