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Marion, Iowa teenager Matt Shankles was one of many teenagers across the country subjected to bullying in school and online. He even resorted to cutting himself and said he "hated myself more than I hate war," according to the Marion Patch. That all changed when he decided to use the bullies' own tool to make others feel good.

Nineteen-year-old lesbian Aiyisha Hassan ended her life October 5, after struggling with her sexuality. From 2008 to 2009, Hassan attended Howard University in Washington, D.C.; she then moved back to California, where she reportedly took her life.

The parents of Zach Harrington, a young gay man from Norman, Okla., who took his own life this month, say that an antigay municipal meeting may have driven their son to suicide.

Seventeen-year-old girls are more likely to have sexual contact with another girl than they were a decade ago, according to a new study by the U.S. National Survey of Family Growth.

The Kardashian sister stunts in andro fashion

A gunman shot two teen girls, who were in a relationship with each other, in the head in a park in Portland, Texas (near Corpus Christie) over the weekend, according to the Corpus Christi Caller Times. One of the young women, 19-year-old Mollie Judith Olgin, died of her wounds while her girlfriend Mary Christine Chapa, 18, is in the hospital in serious condition but stable as of Sunday, according to the Caller Times.

Friends and family gathered to mourn a 14-year-old student from Cashmere, Wash. who committed suicide last week after he was bullied for being gay. His death is at least the fourth suicide reported this year among LGBT youth.

Based on this week's episode of the YouTube series "Teens React," not too many young viewers of Rick Perry's "Stronger" ad see the Texas governor as a viable candidate for president after such an antigay spot.

A shocking new survey by the a nonprofit research organization American Association of University Women found that nearly half of all students in seventh to 12th grades experienced sexual harassment in the last school year. A full 87% of those kids reported negative effects such as trouble sleeping, stomach pain, and even missing school.

A gay 10th-grader killed himself this weekend after complaining about bullying at his school on the Internet, where he made a last blog post tagged as “suicide note.” Jamie Hubley, 15, was out to friends and family in Ottawa, Canada. He had been taking antidepressants and was trying to get professional help.