Ten years after Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered because of his sexual orientation, a 15-year-old gay California student is dead after a student allegedly shot him because of his sexual orientation and gender expression.

Lawrence King was an eighth-grader at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard. The 14-year-old attacker, among a group of students known to bully and harass King because he sometimes wore makeup and jewelry and told classmates he was gay, will be charged with murder and a hate crime.

Please join Allied in Pride-along with GLSEN on Monday, February 25th at 6:30 pm in Dupont Circle as we condemn LGBT based harassment and remember Lawrence King,