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Anti-gay bullying maybe the cause of Teen’s Suicide…

And this is what Tony Perkins’s and his cohorts alike, with their hate speech contribute too.  David Hernandez, who was a junior, committed suicide after what may have been a result of anti-gay bullying… David, who was 16 years old and born in Ecuador, died on September 29. Rumors that he had been bullied at school for being gay have been circulating on the …

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Lawsuit filed against Students, school employees for ignoring gay bullying…

Lawsuit brought against a Jefferson County middle school claims bullying and gay bashing  led an 11-year-old boy to try and commit suicide… The 11-year-old joined the cheerleading squad at Thomas Jefferson Middle School several months ago. Attorney Teddy Gordon says that’s when the bullying began. “He was encouraged and recruited to try out for the cheerleading team so they could …

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Utah: Vigil for gay teen who took his life…

As Alex Smith spoke Monday to the community of Ogden, Utah, about the bullying his boyfriend had undergone, he nor the audience had any idea that the boyfriend, Jack Reese, had taken his own life. No details of his death have been released, but the local chapter of Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays are preparing a gathering …

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Iowa gay teen to take own life after relentless bullying…When is this going to end?

Kenneth Weishuhn 14, committed suicide as a result of relentless bullying after coming out. “He says, ‘Mom, you don’t know how it feels to be hated,” said Jeannie Chambers. “People that were originally his friends, they kind of turned on him,” said his sister Kayla Weishuhn. Teasing started in school, according Kayla, a sophomore.  She says it was the boys in her …

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Son attempts Suicide after relentless bullying for being gay, remains in a coma…

I can not believe i am doing another post about a gay suicide only minutes later. Not to mention ANOTHER gay teen trying to take his life after bullying. A 15 yr old Ohio boy, Austin Rodriquez tried to kill himself on Sunday night after relentless bullying at school an over the internet. He is currently in a coma and …

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Man kissing Tyler Clementi on webcam takes the stand…

A man who witnesses say was watched via webcam while kissing a Rutgers University student who later committed suicide took the stand Friday, telling jurors he noticed the webcam while the two were being intimate. “I had just glanced over my shoulder and I noticed there was a webcam that was faced toward the direction of the bed,” said the …

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Father of Bullied Teen Who Commited Suicide suffers same fate…

Roger Crouch who’s son Dominic killed himself after relentless bullying and who became an advocate against bullying, took his own life recently, unable to cope with the loss of his son.  This is so tragic.  Roger’s son Dominic jumped off a building last year in Gloucestershire, UK and Roger hung himself after leaving goodbye messages to friends and family via …

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Parents of Dead Bullying Victim Asher Brown Now Being Bullied by Neighbors…Wtf?

People are just disgusting…What is wrong with the human race? “People just driving by slowly and parking and staring at us. When they do speak to us they scream, ‘Bully, bully, bully!’ Kids would start chanting that. Adults would just give us dirty glares. They scream by screaming, ‘Yee ha’!” said David who has reported the incidents to Harris County …

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14 yr old hangs himself after being bullied because he was gay…

Friends and family of a 14-year-old Cashmere boy Rafael Morelos, who hanged himself Jan. 29 said during a candlelight vigil Friday night that he had been bullied because he was gay. “He told me he got shoved and punched in the face in PE in the locker room at Cashmere,” said Lexii Mullin of Wenatchee, a friend of Rafael Morelos. …

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14 yr old Teen kills himself over relentless bullying…Heartbreaking…

What can i say? I am at a loss. Another kid. 14!!! Family and friends gathered to remember Phillip Parker Saturday, sharing their stories while holding hands and comforting each other. “That’s my son,” the boy’s father, Phillip Parker, told local news station WSMV. “I love him. I miss him. He shouldn’t have had to kill himself to be brought …

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Granite Bay teen committed suicide after being bullied for being gay…

In the early hours of New Year’s Day, Jeffrey hanged himself in the front entrance to his family’s home in a tony Granite Bay neighborhood. He was 18 years old. Since that day, his parents have searched their hearts and minds for answers. Though Jeffrey, who was gay, had recently ended a relationship and had been treated for depression, they …

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EricJames Borges Killed himself,19, Leaves Behind Message of Love…Why is this still happening?!!!

When will there be enough deaths of innocent kids for the “religious right/conservative” republicans, to understand that the disgusting hate and discrimination that they represent and promote, is the same thing as taking a gun and shooting theses kids in the head? Normally i leave you with a “sweet dream” at this time, but for tonight the only sweet dreams i will be wishing for, …

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Dharun Ravi turns down plea deal in Tyler Clementi webcam spy case…

A former Rutgers University student, accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate Tyler Clementi last year, turned down an offer by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office this morning that offered him probation in return for admitting to bias and invading Clementi’s privacy. How stupid! Wow…Stupid is as stupid does… Dharun Ravi, 19, quietly, but firmly, told Superior …

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Another Teen takes his life because of Bullying….Uggggggg.

I want to scream. I just do not understand these school officials NOT DOING ANYTHING to protect children. They need to be held accountable…. Friends say the young man took his own life because he couldn’t take any more bullying. And they say school officials knew about the torment but didn’t do enough to stop it. Friends say that kids bullied …

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Mom Sues School Over Son’s Suicide | News | The Advocate

The mother of Jamarcus Bell blames his school for her son’s suicide, and she filed a lawsuit this week that outlines the pattern of bullying she says officials failed to protect him from. TheIndianapolis Starprofiles the case of Bell, a 14-year-old freshman at Hamilton Southeastern High School who killed himself in October. Bell was targeted by bullies because of “his race, …

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Jamey Rodemeyer’s Bullies Not Charged!

This is so disturbing. This kid was bullied unmercifully and no one is charged? Wow…. Police closed the Jamey Rodemeyer case today without prosecuting any of his bullies, saying they lacked proof he’d been harassed. Rodemeyer killed himself in September after facing bullying that he “could never escape,” he said in posts on the Internet. But Amherst, N.Y.,  police chief …

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Wow. Parents of Tyler Clementi do not want harsh punishment for video taping roommate…

This is very big of them… Tyler Clementi’s parents want an official accounting of any criminal behavior in their son’s suicide but say a harsh penalty for his former Rutgers University roommate isn’t necessarily in order. Clementi killed himself in September 2010, days after his roommate allegedly used a webcam to spy on Clementi’s intimate encounter with another man. Joseph …

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Gay teen mourned by packed church…..

So sad… Jamie Hubley, 15, committed suicide Saturday after battling depression and being bullied over the fact he was the only openly gay teenager at his west Ottawa high school. (Facebook) Family and friends who spoke during the service and outside afterwards praised Hubley’s efforts to make life better for other gay teens. Jamie’s friend, Luke Spiro, spoke in his …

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Spirit Day: Remembering all of those young souls….

 Here is a brief history of Spirit Day: The name, Spirit Day comes from the purple stripe of the Rainbow Flag, defined by Gilbert Baker, creator of that flag, as ‘representing “spirit”‘. The observance was inaugurated in response to a rash of widely-publicized bullying-related suicides of gay school students in 2010, including that of Tyler Clementi.    

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Gay teen takes his life after being bullied…

Uggg! Why is this still happening? I seriously want to take these bullies and choke them to death. I have no tolerance for bullying. Jamie Hubley documented the final month of his life in heartbreaking and painful detail. The 15-year-old boy, a son of Kanata South Councillor Allan Hubley and his wife, Wendy Barber, kept a blog in which he wrote openly of …

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