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With all that’s happened recently regarding bullying and teen suicides, it’s important to share our experiences with others. We all know that the teen years are the hardest for LGBT people, but we also know, as Dan Savage’s brilliant campaign has proven, "it gets better". That’s something we need to keep reinforcing with LGBT teens. […]
According to their attorneys, Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, the Rutgers students who secretly spied on Tyler Clementi and a male friend in his dorm room, resulting in Clementi committing suicide, were the only ones who saw the video, and only for a couple of minutes. It’s claimed that they saw Clementi and the man
Well, here we go again. Another public apology from someone claiming that they didn’t mean what they said and that they aren’t the way people are painting them. A HUGE problem with today’s society is that because it’s so easy to get caught being hateful, or bigoted, or just plain stupid, we’ve created this "public
These are the statements made by Arkansas Midland School Board member Clint McCance’s concerning the recent Spirit Day… "Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers killed themselves. The only way im wearin it for them is if they all commit suicide. I cant believe the people of this world have gotten this
Courtesy The Advocate A 19-year-old Oakland University sophomore took his own life Tuesday, a few months after telling his family and friends he was gay. Family members of Corey Jackson say they believe the Rochester Hills, Mich., college student had been bullied over his sexual orientation, and it ultimately led him to commit suicide.
TODAY…Wednesday, October 20th 2010 is SPIRIT DAY. Wear PURPLE to honor the LGBT TEENS we have recently lost to suicide because of bullying…We ALL need to do whatever we can to REACH OUT to LGBT TEENS who are struggling, as we all did, with the pressures of growing up in a prejudiced and vindictive society…WE
Bill O’Reilly made a fool of himself for the millionth time today on ABC’s The View when he declared that the Mosque in NY should not be built because Americans disapprove. He went on to state that Muslims attacked us on 9/11 and when Whoopi Goldberg tried to correct him, tempers flared and Whoopi and
