Let's talk seriously for a second Blog readers, this year, 4 American high school students took their lives as a result of unbearable bullying;
18-year-old Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers freshman, posted a brief farewell on facebook then jumped to his death off the George Washington Bridge because his roommate secretly taped and broadcast him in a sexual encounter with another man.
13-year-old Seth Walsh had been bullied and relentlessly teased for being openly gay…and hung himself from a tree in his back yard.
Eighth-grader Asher Brown shot himself in response to constant harassment from fellow students about being gay.
15-year-old Billy Lucas never told anyone he was gay, but his peers assumed he was, tormented him because of it, and he hung himself in the family’s barn.
13-year-old Seth Walsh had been bullied and relentlessly teased for being openly gay…and hung himself from a tree in his back yard.
Eighth-grader Asher Brown shot himself in response to constant harassment from fellow students about being gay.
15-year-old Billy Lucas never told anyone he was gay, but his peers assumed he was, tormented him because of it, and he hung himself in the family’s barn.
Bullying someone because they're gay is all kinds of wrong. Its unacceptable and people need to be more wary of their actions. Saying 'that's so gay' or 'you're so gay' is not an appropriate way to refer to someone or something in a flippant way.
I don't want to go on and on about how I was bullied and my life was so miserable because thats in my past and im over it. But the fact of the matter was I was bullied. It was awful and it dominated the majority of my life up until I was about 17ish. I couldn't go anywhere without 'faggot' or 'queer' being screamed at me, and that was the best of it. I'd have bottles thrown at me, get punched and even spit on. There was a particular incident involving someone in my school who I had never spoken to. He launched an unprovoked attack on me with two of his friends and had the time of his life. In any other circumstance I would have just cried it off but I was sick of it. So I went to the Guards and reported him.
If gay teens don't stand up for themselves, no-one will. I went to my school about my problems with bullying and it took them three years to even repond to my acusation.
Its time that we all stopped being such ignorant dickheads and understand that our actions have serious ramifications.
Monsieur mAdam
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