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Gay Youth's Slaying Spurs Call for Tolerance

Started by Shana A, March 29, 2008, 06:48:28 AM

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Shana A

March 29, 2008, 06:48:28 AM
Gay Youth's Slaying Spurs Call for Tolerance

By Ashley Surdin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 29, 2008; Page A02

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/28/AR2008032803350.html

LOS ANGELES -- With his school uniform, eighth-grader Lawrence "Larry" King wore purple eye shadow, nail polish and pink lipstick. In the weeks before he died, he added purple boots with three-inch heels.

Classmates at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, Calif., mocked his makeup and slung anti-gay slurs at him in the halls. Sometimes, the words transformed the expressive teenager into a wallflower.

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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