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Over 90 percent of parents surveyed support their child's gender identity, but half of the kids are getting bullied at school, according to the report, released along with a new guide for these parents.
Billy Lucas, a 15-year-old high school freshman from Greensburg, Ind., took his own life Thursday following a period of antigay bullying from classmates that went unaddressed. "Some people at school called him names," student Nick Hughes told WHTR, adding that most of the names questioned Lucas's sexual orientation. The young man was unable to fight back.
The Weinstein Company has lost an appeal to have the rating of its documentary Bully, a harrowing examination of the bullying epidemic in America, changed to PG-13 from R, which will prevent it from reaching its targeted adolescent audience.
A Toronto kid organized a school campaign after he was bullied, and was thrilled to receive a video from Gaga supporting his efforts.
Her childhood bullies thought she was a gay boy and called her a "f*ggot."
A sixth student targeted by anti-LGBT bullying in Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin School District has sued, claiming that administrators turned a blind eye to the abuse she suffered. According to a complaint filed Tuesday by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the student was subjected to "a constant, daily barrage of taunts from other students, who called her names like 'faggot,' 'dyke,' 'he/she' and 'it.'"
The actor says he didn't want to attend his 30-year reunion, but he's glad he did.
Samantha Bremmer, a student at Mill Creek Middle School in Dexter, MI, is promoting anti-bullying among her classmates by sticking Post-Its with uplifting hand-written messages on their lockers.
A Utah middle school is defending its decision to out a student to his parents as a “proactive” move to prevent bullying.
LGBT kids who participate in GSAs "have better mental health as young adults, are less likely to drop out of high school, and more likely to attend college," a new study found.
In honour of International Anti-Bullying Day, David Lloyd George Elementary and Churchill Secondary Schools in Vancouver, Canada, came together to create a message of acceptance and challenge others to use social media as a positive tool.
A fifteen year old activist in Arizona notified officials at every school in the state that bullying of lesbian and gay students must end, or they will face a lawsuit. Caleb Laieski sent a letter via email to over 5,000 school administrators, city council members and lawmakers for the state demanding better strategies to combat discrimination. "This is more not to threaten a lawsuit but to put resources out there," said Laieski. "But if they don't want to cooperate, there's going to be consequences."
Disney star Demi Lovato took to her Twitter to stand up against the kind of school bullying that has contributed to youths committing suicide and to urge school officials to take action against that sort of bullying. The star of Camp Rock and Sonny With a Chance specifically mentioned 11-year-old Jaheem Herrera's death last week in Atlanta.
Homophobic bullying remains a major problem in schools.
Friends and family of Seth Walsh, the 13-year-old California boy who committed suicide because of anti-gay bullying at school, say they'll launch campaign against anti-gay bullying.
Texas lawmakers intend to hammer out an authoritative definition of bullying early next year. At least seven bills relating to bullying in schools and online have already been filed for consideration in the legislature next session, which opens on January 11. Two of those bills would require schools to report annually on its incidents of bullying, making note of which were based on race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation.
With his father at his side, seventh grader Marco Melgoza is taking a stand against bullies by protesting outside his school. Melgoza stood outside Desmond Middle School in Madera, California on Wednesday with a sign reading “Bullying is a Weapon.” The People Magazine cover with 18-year-old Tyler Clementi on the cover was glued to the poster.
At a “Breaking the Silence”-themed assembly to honor Martin Luther King Jr., a high school senior used the opportunity to come out to the entire school and discuss the importance of diversity and acceptance and speak out against antigay bullying in schools.
Kenneth Weishuhn, a high school freshman in Paullina, Iowa, took his own life Saturday after being bullied by classmates at school and online, and with death threats by phone. KTIV reports on the death of Weishuhn, who was 14 and attended South O’Brien High School in O’Brien County. His sister Kayla said that friends at the school “turned on him” after he told them he was gay last month, and boys in her sophomore class started the bullying.
The parents of a high school freshman in Amherst, N.Y., who killed himself told CNN that their son had endured pervasive antigay bullying beginning in fifth grade, both at school and particularly online. Jamey Rodemeyer, 14, committed suicide Monday in the Buffalo, N.Y., suburb. “He had the biggest heart in that little body,” Rodemeyer’s mother, Tracey, told CNN's Anderson Cooper Wednesday. “He was either loved so sincerely or he was bullied. There wasn’t much in between.” Much of the bullying Jamey faced, Tracey Rodemeyer said, occurred not in school but via Facebook and other social media sites. "Because people can access each other in numbers so readily — it’s still accessible for people to do their bullying.”
