Wednesday, September 29, 2010

When Will It Stop! - Update

This is from Pam's House Blend...

September has been a hellish month for gay or gay-perceived teens this month. (TWO):

* Seth Walsh, the Bakersfield, CA 13-year-old who hanged himself from a tree in his back yard after years of being bullied, died Tuesday afternoon after nine days on life support. Police investigators interviewed some of the young people who taunted Seth the day he hanged himself. "Several of the kids that we talked to broke down into tears," Police Chief Jeff Kermode said. "They had never expected an outcome such as this."

* Asher Brown, 13, an eighth-grader killed himself last week. He shot himself in the head after enduring what his mother and stepfather say was constant harassment from four other students at Hamilton Middle School in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District in Houston Texas. Brown, his family said, was "bullied to death" - picked on for his small size, his religion and because he did not wear designer clothes and shoes. Kids also accused him of being gay, some of them performing mock gay acts on him in his physical education class, his mother and stepfather said.

* Billy (William) Lucas, 15, a student at Greensburg Community High School in Greensburg, IN, was found dead in a barn at his grandmother's home Thursday evening - he had hanged himself. Friends say that he had been tormented for years. "He was threatened to get beat up every day," friend and classmate Nick Hughes said. "Sometimes in classes, kids would act like they were going to punch him and stuff and push him. Some people at school called him names," Hughes said, saying most of those names questioned Lucas' sexual orientation.

2 comments:

  1. What is it about this month? Could it be that gay-perceived kids make convenient targets for kids who are upset about being back in school?

    But it doesn't end in high school. Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi threw himself off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate secretly videotaped him having sex with another male and posted the video on the Internet.

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  2. absolutely tragic and completely avoidable.
    Truly disgusting and outrageous!

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