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Title: Gay kids need anti-bullying protection
Post by: Shana A on March 12, 2008, 06:49:39 AM
Post by: Shana A on March 12, 2008, 06:49:39 AM
Gay kids need anti-bullying protection
Nadine Smith • My View • March 12, 2008
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080312/OPINION05/803120349/1006/OPINION (http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080312/OPINION05/803120349/1006/OPINION)
We can be horrified, but we cannot be surprised. Witness the death of yet another child who said he was gay — the murder of another teenager who defied gender stereotypes.
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On Feb. 22, 17-year-old Simmie Williams Jr., was gunned down on a street corner in Broward County. Just 10 days earlier, 15-year-old Oxnard, Ca., junior high student Lawrence King was shot to death in his own classroom because he wore makeup — because he was different. And less than one year ago in Florida, Ryan Keith Skipper, 24, was stabbed to death by the side of the road in Polk County.
Nadine Smith • My View • March 12, 2008
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080312/OPINION05/803120349/1006/OPINION (http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080312/OPINION05/803120349/1006/OPINION)
We can be horrified, but we cannot be surprised. Witness the death of yet another child who said he was gay — the murder of another teenager who defied gender stereotypes.
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On Feb. 22, 17-year-old Simmie Williams Jr., was gunned down on a street corner in Broward County. Just 10 days earlier, 15-year-old Oxnard, Ca., junior high student Lawrence King was shot to death in his own classroom because he wore makeup — because he was different. And less than one year ago in Florida, Ryan Keith Skipper, 24, was stabbed to death by the side of the road in Polk County.