Saw this on reddit... It's the Pinterest of 14 year old Kenneth Weisuhn, an Iowa teen who recently committed suicide after being bullied. http://pinterest.com/15kweishuhn/when-i-get-married/

Or so says the president-elect of the American College of Surgeons, a professor-emeritus at the University of Michigan. So the guy isn't a crack pot ( Read more... )

This morning's edition of Farming Today, the daily news programme for the farming community on BBC Radio 4, included an item about the problems faced by farmers who are gay ( Read more... )

A Pennsylvania high school freshman took his own life because he was mecilessly harassed because he was perceived to be gay.

I've been seeing this on Facebook and Twitter...

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I was late to work this morning because as I was about to leave, this came on ( Read more... )

I'm kind of surprised that this hasn't been posted here yet (although I'm sure ya'll have seen it already through the media outlets): Suicide linked to webcastI think its because I'm closer to this poor guy's age than I am a middle-schooler, but it really hit me what happened to him. It's sad that he couldn't get the support he needed, but I don't ( Read more... )

These stories never get easier, but a 13-year-old boy has hung himself after relentless anti-gay bullying, which was allegedly ignored by his school.

I had a originally posted this in my own journal, and tko_ak asked me to repost it here. On April 25, 2002, I attempted suicide ( Read more... )

It's a 60-year-old law, but it's still on the books. The legislature is looking to repeal it.