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moirae: fuckyeahlgbt: lemiaou: shaanmichael: ihatethismess:tiredofbeingignored:loki1181:crannybananny: At 15, Lawrence King was small—5 feet 1 inch—but very hard to miss. In January, he started to show up for class at Oxnard, Calif.’s E. O. Green Junior High School decked out in women’s accessories. On some days, he would slick up his curly hair in a Prince-like bouffant. Sometimes he’d paint his fingernails hot pink and dab glitter or white foundation on his cheeks. “He wore makeup better than I did,” says Marissa Moreno, 13, one of his classmates. He bought a pair of stilettos at Target, and he couldn’t have been prouder if he had on a varsity football jersey. He thought nothing of chasing the boys around the school in them, teetering as he ran. But on the morning of Feb. 12, Larry left his glitter and his heels at home. He came to school dressed like any other boy: tennis shoes, baggy pants, a loose sweater over a collared shirt. He seemed unhappy about something. He hadn’t slept much the night before, and he told one school employee that he threw up his breakfast that morning, which he sometimes did because he obsessed over his weight. But this was different. One student noticed that as Larry walked across the quad, he kept looking back nervously over his shoulder before he slipped into his first-period English class. The teacher, Dawn Boldrin, told the students to collect their belongings, and then marched them to a nearby computer lab, so they could type out their papers on World War II. Larry found a seat in the middle of the room. Behind him, Brandon McInerney pulled up a chair. Brandon, 14, wasn’t working on his paper, because he told Mrs. Boldrin he’d finished it. Instead, he opened a history book and started to read. Or at least he pretended to. “He kept looking over at Larry,” says a student who was in the class that morning. “He’d look at the book and look at Larry, and look at the book and look at Larry.” At 8:30 a.m., a half hour into class, Brandon quietly stood up. Then, without anyone’s noticing, he removed a handgun that he had somehow sneaked to school, aimed it at Larry’s head, and fired a single shot. Boldrin, who was across the room looking at another student’s work, spun around. “Brandon, what the hell are you doing!” she screamed. Brandon fired at Larry a second time, tossed the gun on the ground and calmly walked through the classroom door. Police arrested him within seven minutes, a few blocks from school. Larry was rushed to the hospital, where he died two days later of brain injuries. McInerney has been charged as an adult with premeditated murder with enhancements of discharge of a firearm and a hate crime. He is being held in lieu of US $770,000 bail, and faces a minimum sentence of 53 years imprisonment to a maximum life sentence. Yes, stories like this are heartbreaking. But I want it to be known that there is much more to it. Very few people talk about Lawrence’s wrongdoing, such as a constant harrassment towards mentioned assailant. While that obviously shouldn’t be grounds for murder, one has to keep in mind the ages and mental maturity of these two boys…along with the stigma places upon the young men of our generation. I ask that people take the time to read the ENTIREstory from BOTH perspectives before having a pity party for King. It’s sad he died, of course, but in a sense it was his own fault. It wasn’t just some random hate crime. There was fuel, there was pain, and there was reasoning. I hate that this happened, but at the same time, I refuse to listen to anybody try to make him the posterchild for LGBTQIA rights advocacy. If somebody ‘normal’ were to antagonise another person repeatedly and god their ass beat down, nobody would think twice of it. But because he happened to cross dress, people try to idolise him. Being yourself is one thing. Rubbing it in other peoples face who you are is a completely separate thing. My gay friends don’t walk around getting all up in the kool-aid (oh god i haven’t said that since like 2000) of every guy they meet. If you just do what you do without FORCING the attention on yourself, you should be fine. Should be. Also, today, if I remember correctly, is supposed to be the beginning of the McInnery trial. JS. Not exactly our poster child. It was his OWN FAULT? Because he “rubbed [who he was] in other people’s face[s],” he DESERVED to get shot? These responses are absolutely sickening. No person, and especially no child, deserves to be SHOT IN THE HEAD TWICE, POINT BLANK. Are you paying attention to this story? His ‘bullying’ - which, can we get a source on that? because it’s rather vague - is not to be justified, but it also should not be used TO justify his murder. What the hell, people. What the hell. They were both bullied, at home and to each other. But no one is saying a 15 year old deserves to be shot.

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At 15, Lawrence King was small—5 feet 1 inch—but very hard to miss. In January, he started to show up for class at Oxnard, Calif.’s E. O. Green Junior High School decked out in women’s accessories. On some days, he would slick up his curly hair in a Prince-like bouffant. Sometimes he’d paint his fingernails hot pink and dab glitter or white foundation on his cheeks. “He wore makeup better than I did,” says Marissa Moreno, 13, one of his classmates. He bought a pair of stilettos at Target, and he couldn’t have been prouder if he had on a varsity football jersey. He thought nothing of chasing the boys around the school in them, teetering as he ran.
But on the morning of Feb. 12, Larry left his glitter and his heels at home. He came to school dressed like any other boy: tennis shoes, baggy pants, a loose sweater over a collared shirt. He seemed unhappy about something. He hadn’t slept much the night before, and he told one school employee that he threw up his breakfast that morning, which he sometimes did because he obsessed over his weight. But this was different. One student noticed that as Larry walked across the quad, he kept looking back nervously over his shoulder before he slipped into his first-period English class. The teacher, Dawn Boldrin, told the students to collect their belongings, and then marched them to a nearby computer lab, so they could type out their papers on World War II. Larry found a seat in the middle of the room. Behind him, Brandon McInerney pulled up a chair.
Brandon, 14, wasn’t working on his paper, because he told Mrs. Boldrin he’d finished it. Instead, he opened a history book and started to read. Or at least he pretended to. “He kept looking over at Larry,” says a student who was in the class that morning. “He’d look at the book and look at Larry, and look at the book and look at Larry.” At 8:30 a.m., a half hour into class, Brandon quietly stood up. Then, without anyone’s noticing, he removed a handgun that he had somehow sneaked to school, aimed it at Larry’s head, and fired a single shot. Boldrin, who was across the room looking at another student’s work, spun around. “Brandon, what the hell are you doing!” she screamed. Brandon fired at Larry a second time, tossed the gun on the ground and calmly walked through the classroom door. Police arrested him within seven minutes, a few blocks from school. Larry was rushed to the hospital, where he died two days later of brain injuries.
McInerney has been charged as an adult with premeditated murder with enhancements of discharge of a firearm and a hate crime. He is being held in lieu of US $770,000 bail, and faces a minimum sentence of 53 years imprisonment to a maximum life sentence.

Yes, stories like this are heartbreaking. But I want it to be known that there is much more to it. Very few people talk about Lawrence’s wrongdoing, such as a constant harrassment towards mentioned assailant. While that obviously shouldn’t be grounds for murder, one has to keep in mind the ages and mental maturity of these two boys…along with the stigma places upon the young men of our generation. I ask that people take the time to read the ENTIREstory from BOTH perspectives before having a pity party for King. It’s sad he died, of course, but in a sense it was his own fault. It wasn’t just some random hate crime. There was fuel, there was pain, and there was reasoning.

I hate that this happened, but at the same time, I refuse to listen to anybody try to make him the posterchild for LGBTQIA rights advocacy. If somebody ‘normal’ were to antagonise another person repeatedly and god their ass beat down, nobody would think twice of it. But because he happened to cross dress, people try to idolise him.

Being yourself is one thing. Rubbing it in other peoples face who you are is a completely separate thing. My gay friends don’t walk around getting all up in the kool-aid (oh god i haven’t said that since like 2000) of every guy they meet. If you just do what you do without FORCING the attention on yourself, you should be fine. Should be.

Also, today, if I remember correctly, is supposed to be the beginning of the McInnery trial. JS.

Not exactly our poster child.

It was his OWN FAULT? Because he “rubbed [who he was] in other people’s face[s],” he DESERVED to get shot? These responses are absolutely sickening. No person, and especially no child, deserves to be SHOT IN THE HEAD TWICE, POINT BLANK. Are you paying attention to this story? His ‘bullying’ - which, can we get a source on that? because it’s rather vague - is not to be justified, but it also should not be used TO justify his murder. What the hell, people. What the hell.

They were both bullied, at home and to each other. But no one is saying a 15 year old deserves to be shot.

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lemiaou: shaanmichael: ihatethismess:tiredofbeingignored:loki1181:crannybananny: At 15, Lawrence King was small—5 feet 1 inch—but very hard to miss. In January, he started to show up for class at Oxnard, Calif.’s E. O. Green Junior High School decked out in women’s accessories. On some days, he would slick up his curly hair in a Prince-like bouffant. Sometimes he’d paint his fingernails hot pink and dab glitter or white foundation on his cheeks. “He wore makeup better than I did,” says Marissa Moreno, 13, one of his classmates. He bought a pair of stilettos at Target, and he couldn’t have been prouder if he had on a varsity football jersey. He thought nothing of chasing the boys around the school in them, teetering as he ran. But on the morning of Feb. 12, Larry left his glitter and his heels at home. He came to school dressed like any other boy: tennis shoes, baggy pants, a loose sweater over a collared shirt. He seemed unhappy about something. He hadn’t slept much the night before, and he told one school employee that he threw up his breakfast that morning, which he sometimes did because he obsessed over his weight. But this was different. One student noticed that as Larry walked across the quad, he kept looking back nervously over his shoulder before he slipped into his first-period English class. The teacher, Dawn Boldrin, told the students to collect their belongings, and then marched them to a nearby computer lab, so they could type out their papers on World War II. Larry found a seat in the middle of the room. Behind him, Brandon McInerney pulled up a chair. Brandon, 14, wasn’t working on his paper, because he told Mrs. Boldrin he’d finished it. Instead, he opened a history book and started to read. Or at least he pretended to. “He kept looking over at Larry,” says a student who was in the class that morning. “He’d look at the book and look at Larry, and look at the book and look at Larry.” At 8:30 a.m., a half hour into class, Brandon quietly stood up. Then, without anyone’s noticing, he removed a handgun that he had somehow sneaked to school, aimed it at Larry’s head, and fired a single shot. Boldrin, who was across the room looking at another student’s work, spun around. “Brandon, what the hell are you doing!” she screamed. Brandon fired at Larry a second time, tossed the gun on the ground and calmly walked through the classroom door. Police arrested him within seven minutes, a few blocks from school. Larry was rushed to the hospital, where he died two days later of brain injuries. McInerney has been charged as an adult with premeditated murder with enhancements of discharge of a firearm and a hate crime. He is being held in lieu of US $770,000 bail, and faces a minimum sentence of 53 years imprisonment to a maximum life sentence. Yes, stories like this are heartbreaking. But I want it to be known that there is much more to it. Very few people talk about Lawrence’s wrongdoing, such as a constant harrassment towards mentioned assailant. While that obviously shouldn’t be grounds for murder, one has to keep in mind the ages and mental maturity of these two boys…along with the stigma places upon the young men of our generation. I ask that people take the time to read the ENTIRE story from BOTH perspectives before having a pity party for King. It’s sad he died, of course, but in a sense it was his own fault. It wasn’t just some random hate crime. There was fuel, there was pain, and there was reasoning. I hate that this happened, but at the same time, I refuse to listen to anybody try to make him the posterchild for LGBTQIA rights advocacy. If somebody ‘normal’ were to antagonise another person repeatedly and god their ass beat down, nobody would think twice of it. But because he happened to cross dress, people try to idolise him. Being yourself is one thing. Rubbing it in other peoples face who you are is a completely separate thing. My gay friends don’t walk around getting all up in the kool-aid (oh god i haven’t said that since like 2000) of every guy they meet. If you just do what you do without FORCING the attention on yourself, you should be fine. Should be. Also, today, if I remember correctly, is supposed to be the beginning of the McInnery trial. JS. Not exactly our poster child.

lemiaou:

shaanmichael:

ihatethismess:tiredofbeingignored:loki1181:crannybananny:

At 15, Lawrence King was small—5 feet 1 inch—but very hard to miss. In January, he started to show up for class at Oxnard, Calif.’s E. O. Green Junior High School decked out in women’s accessories. On some days, he would slick up his curly hair in a Prince-like bouffant. Sometimes he’d paint his fingernails hot pink and dab glitter or white foundation on his cheeks. “He wore makeup better than I did,” says Marissa Moreno, 13, one of his classmates. He bought a pair of stilettos at Target, and he couldn’t have been prouder if he had on a varsity football jersey. He thought nothing of chasing the boys around the school in them, teetering as he ran.
But on the morning of Feb. 12, Larry left his glitter and his heels at home. He came to school dressed like any other boy: tennis shoes, baggy pants, a loose sweater over a collared shirt. He seemed unhappy about something. He hadn’t slept much the night before, and he told one school employee that he threw up his breakfast that morning, which he sometimes did because he obsessed over his weight. But this was different. One student noticed that as Larry walked across the quad, he kept looking back nervously over his shoulder before he slipped into his first-period English class. The teacher, Dawn Boldrin, told the students to collect their belongings, and then marched them to a nearby computer lab, so they could type out their papers on World War II. Larry found a seat in the middle of the room. Behind him, Brandon McInerney pulled up a chair.
Brandon, 14, wasn’t working on his paper, because he told Mrs. Boldrin he’d finished it. Instead, he opened a history book and started to read. Or at least he pretended to. “He kept looking over at Larry,” says a student who was in the class that morning. “He’d look at the book and look at Larry, and look at the book and look at Larry.” At 8:30 a.m., a half hour into class, Brandon quietly stood up. Then, without anyone’s noticing, he removed a handgun that he had somehow sneaked to school, aimed it at Larry’s head, and fired a single shot. Boldrin, who was across the room looking at another student’s work, spun around. “Brandon, what the hell are you doing!” she screamed. Brandon fired at Larry a second time, tossed the gun on the ground and calmly walked through the classroom door. Police arrested him within seven minutes, a few blocks from school. Larry was rushed to the hospital, where he died two days later of brain injuries.
McInerney has been charged as an adult with premeditated murder with enhancements of discharge of a firearm and a hate crime. He is being held in lieu of US $770,000 bail, and faces a minimum sentence of 53 years imprisonment to a maximum life sentence.

Yes, stories like this are heartbreaking. But I want it to be known that there is much more to it. Very few people talk about Lawrence’s wrongdoing, such as a constant harrassment towards mentioned assailant. While that obviously shouldn’t be grounds for murder, one has to keep in mind the ages and mental maturity of these two boys…along with the stigma places upon the young men of our generation. I ask that people take the time to read the ENTIRE story from BOTH perspectives before having a pity party for King. It’s sad he died, of course, but in a sense it was his own fault. It wasn’t just some random hate crime. There was fuel, there was pain, and there was reasoning.

I hate that this happened, but at the same time, I refuse to listen to anybody try to make him the posterchild for LGBTQIA rights advocacy. If somebody ‘normal’ were to antagonise another person repeatedly and god their ass beat down, nobody would think twice of it. But because he happened to cross dress, people try to idolise him.

Being yourself is one thing. Rubbing it in other peoples face who you are is a completely separate thing. My gay friends don’t walk around getting all up in the kool-aid (oh god i haven’t said that since like 2000) of every guy they meet. If you just do what you do without FORCING the attention on yourself, you should be fine. Should be.

Also, today, if I remember correctly, is supposed to be the beginning of the McInnery trial. JS.

Not exactly our poster child.

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Brandon McInerney Pleads Not Guilty

Teenage killer Brandon McInerney, who last year walked into his 8th grade classroom and shot openly gay classmate Lawrence King in the head, has pleaded not guilty in a Ventura County, California classroom.

Teen murder defendant Brandon McInerney pleaded not guilty Thursday to first-degree murder and other charges in connection with the fatal shooting of classmate Larry King, 15, at an Oxnard school. McInerney, 15, who is being prosecuted as an adult, was accompanied by his attorneys in Ventura County Superior Court as he formally received the criminal charges against him. His arraignment had been postponed repeatedly since the February 2008 shooting. Ventura County Superior Court Superior Court Judge Bruce Young set a pretrial hearing for Oct. 23 and a trial date for Dec. 1. After the arraignment, Senior Deputy District Attorney Maeve Fox said she doesn’t know whether McInerney will be tried in December. “Your guess is as good as mine,” she said.

It’s unclear of the basis of the not guilty plea, as dozens of horrified students witnessed the shooting. Defense attorneys want the case moved to juvenile court so McInerney can be “treated and rehabilitated in the juvenile system.” Prosecutors have noted that white supremacist materials were found in McInerney’s bedroom.

Via. http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2009/08/brandon-mcinerney-pleads-not-guily.html

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Teen Accused Of Killing Gay Student Pleads Not Guilty

libertyavenue:

“After numerous delays, Brandon McInerney, the teen accused of killing a 15-year-old gay student, formally heard the criminal charges against him Thursday morning. During his arraignment, McInerney pleaded not guilty to all charges, the Ventura County Star reported.

McInerney, 15, is being tried as an adult in the death of Lawrence King, a gay student murdered last February in Oxnard, California. McInerney was 14 last year when he allegedly shot King twice in the head during a morning class at E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard. King survived the night but died on Valentine’s Day after being pronounced brain dead. Police arrested McInerney a few blocks from the school.

King told friends and family that he was gay, often wore makeup, and is reported to have teased boys.

McInerney has been charged with murder and committing a hate crime.”

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Ellen on Lawrence King’s death. This makes me cry, just like she does. However, it’s sad that they say the only reason that Brandon murdered him was because he asked to be his valentine is untrue. Lawrence was apparently a bully. He kept tormenting Brandon, but Brandon tormented him back. Either way, murder is not the answer.

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