A Southern California teen has agreed to plead guilty for gunng down a gay classmate three years ago their junr high classroom.
Contents:
- YOUNG, GAY AND MURRED JUNR HIGH
- CALIFORNIA TEEN ADMS KILLG GAY STUNT, TO SERVE 25 YEARS
- DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR 2008 MURR OF GAY TEEN IN OXNARD CLASSROOM
- THE TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
YOUNG, GAY AND MURRED JUNR HIGH
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. 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?
CALIFORNIA TEEN ADMS KILLG GAY STUNT, TO SERVE 25 YEARS
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. 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.
DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR 2008 MURR OF GAY TEEN IN OXNARD CLASSROOM
"I thk that she was assertg her beliefs for gay rights.
For tweens, talkg about beg gay isn't really about sex.
"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 TTH BEHD AMERI’S MOST FAMO GAY-HATE MURR
The kids are sayg sce Larry is gay, I mt be gay, too, bee I'm his brother'.
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.
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.