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Billy Jack Gaither was brutally murdered for being gay in Alabama 25 years ago today

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Billy Jack Gaither, 39, was stabbed, beaten and set on fire for being gay in 1999. Gaither's murder sparked a national outcry and a movement to include sexual orientation in Alabama's 1994 hate crime law. That still has not happened. President Obama in 2009 signed into law a hate crimes measure named after Matthew Shepard.

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Billy Jack Gaither was brutally murdered for being gay in Alabama 25 years ago today

On Feb. 19, 1999, two men lured Gaither from a Sylacauga bar, beat him with an ax handle, drove him to a creek and put him on fiery tires.

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