Slain gay student pushed limits, witness says

[Shana A]

Slain gay student pushed limits, witness says

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/12/national/main20078673.shtml?tag=re1.channel

CHATSWORTH, Calif. - A former Ventura County school official says a gay student who was shot and killed in 2008 said sexually inappropriate things to other students in the weeks before the shooting.

Joy Epstein, the former vice president of E. O. Green School, testified Monday that 15-year-old Larry King pushed boundaries by wearing women's high-heeled boots and makeup.

Epstein said she warned King that dressing differently could make things hard on him but she and other teachers didn't discourage him because it wasn't outside the school's dress code.

[Vicky]

Is this an excuse for the alleged killer to have actually shot King?  I would say that the shooting overstepped the limits by quite a distance more than King's actions did. 

[Silas]

-pinches space between eyes-

Seriously?

If King was making some students uncomfortable with flirting/sexual harassment, the proper thing to do is tell the principal/a teacher and get King to stop. You don't SHOOT a person for that, and I really doubt that was the reason they did.

As for clothing, freedom of expression and all that. Sure, you can get ->-bleeped-<- for it, but you don't shoot people for that either. You, gasp, go to an adult or a more liberal school.

[cynthialee]

Meerly talking about things that make others uncomfortable and people will report you to HR.

You know uncomfortable topics like: gay/lesbian life issues, trans life issues, the guy/girl that the homosexual wants to date, you know ...things that any heterosexual may talk about without impunity.

When anyone who is LGBT speaks about anything of their life experiance that a cissexual/cisgender would be able to talk about it makes someone uncomfortable. Then they silence the offender with acusations of impropriety.