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Title: Remember their names [letter to editor]
Post by: Shana A on March 07, 2008, 07:06:11 AM
Remember their names
Will Lawrence King's murder cut through the celeb-obsession gripping our culture

By Laura Douglas-Brown
MAR. 7, 2008

http://www.sovo.com/2008/3-7/view/editorial/8225.cfm (http://www.sovo.com/2008/3-7/view/editorial/8225.cfm)

NINE YEARS AGO THIS WEEK, I spent a gut-wrenching day in Alabama, a male co-worker along for "protection." We were there so I could interview residents of the tiny town of Sylacauga about the murder of one of their own, Billy Jack Gaither, at the hands of two young men who admitted targeting him for being gay.