Tag Archives: bullying

I’m quite amazed how much coverage this issue is finally getting. It just sucks that it took the suicides of young boys to get here.

The mother of “bullied to death” 11 year-old Carl Walker-Hoover appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show to demand an end to school bullying.

Today the Boston Globe published an editorial titled Bullied To Death in which the paper decries anti-gay bullying and points out how much worse the situation can be for children in the inner-cities. Relentless bullying, including anti-gay slurs, by students at the New Leadership Charter School in Springfield pushed sixth-grader Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover to take his own life, according to …

Equality California wants Carrie Prejean to understand the power homophobia has to hurt LGBT youth, especially in light of two recent suicides caused by anti-gay bullying. EQCA has invited Prejean to meet gay leaders and LGBT youth. Equality California (EQCA) has invited Miss California Carrie Prejean to meet with leaders from her home state lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organizations, …

Yet another young life has ended over anti-gay bullying. In Georgia: On Thursday afternoon, after returning home from school, fifth-grader Jaheem quietly went into his room and hanged himself. His 10-year-old sister, Yerralis, also a fifth-grader, discovered Jaheem’s dead body. “His sister was screaming, ‘Get him down, get him down,’” said Norman Keene, who helped raise Jaheem since the boy …

On Friday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan noted the observance of the Day Of Silence and the suicide of 11 year-old Carl Walker-Hoover, who killed himself over anti-gay bullying. Today, many Americans will honor the Day of Silence called for on behalf of victims of harassment and bullying around issues of sexual orientation, including a recent suicide who would have …

Anti-gay hater Karen England and the Capitol Resource Institute are upset about the phone calls and emails you sent them about their Day Of Silence walkout plans, citing them as examples of gay intolerance. Because people are supposed be tolerant of bigotry. Their new video in response to your complaints is at the bottom of this post. Our staff is …

JMG reader Sean Chapin does an excellent job picking apart the lies in yesterday’s hateful anti-Day Of Silence clip from the Illinois Family Association. If you didn’t catch the final update on yesterday’s post, the IFI has amended their clip to remove the incorrect attributions and reposted it at another URL on YouTube. If you flagged it yesterday, thanks, but …

UPDATE: Since this post went up, the Illinois Family Institute has changed the information on their home page. Instead of a Baptist church in Arizona, the creator of the clip is now identified as Grace Gospel Center in Bensonville, Illinois. The Arizona church has written me to say they have no affiliation with the Illinois Family Institute. I have updated …

Last night CNN did an excellent report on the plague of anti-gay bulling in the nation’s public schools, focusing on the suicide of 11 year-year old Carl Walker-Hoover and interviewing Thomas Krever, head of NYC’s Hetrick-Martin Institute, which is home to Harvey Milk High School. Excellent piece. Learn about Hetrick-Martin here.

Even in the face of last week’s widely publicized suicide of 11 year-old Carl Walker-Hoover, who had been tormented by anti-gay bullying, the religious right is shamelessly going forward with their plan to pull students out of school on Friday’s Day Of Silence. Here’s a portion of the just-issued press release from Karen England, executive director of the Capitol Resource …

And yet the Christianists will pull their children out of school rather than allow them to participate in any anti-bullying protest. Via GLSEN: An 11-year-old Massachusetts boy, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, hung himself Monday after enduring bullying at school, including daily taunts of being gay, despite his mother’s weekly pleas to the school to address the problem. This is at least …

Sponsored by openly gay politico Daniel O’Donnell, a sweeping anti-bullying bill has overwhelmingly passed in New York’s state Assembly. Via press release: The bill was recently amended to cover the broadest categories of students who face harassment and discrimination in our state’s schools. While the amendment explicitly added weight, it also clarified that protections should not be limited to the …

Christianist groups are calling for a nationwide student walk-out in public schools that participate in next month’s annual Day Of Silence, an event designed to call attention to the bullying of LGBT students. From Americans For Truth spokesdouche Peter LaBarbera: TAKE ACTION: spread the word about the student walkout to protest the pro-homosexual-activist “Day of Silence” — on Friday, April …

Ah, Canada. Nanaimo students will wear pink today, along with tens of thousands of British Columbians, to show they will not tolerate bullying. As part of a provincewide campaign, Wednesday has been recognized as a day to don pink to deliver the anti-bullying message. The protest started after an incident at a Nova Scotia school in September 2007, when a …

Semi-out comedian Wanda Sykes and actress Hillary Duff have joined with the Advertising Council and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) in a national campaign to discourage teenagers from saying “that’s so gay” to refer to things they don’t like. The campaign, which is scheduled to be announced by the council in Washington on Wednesday, will seek to …

A nice surprise: Ten New York Republican Senators have introduced legislation to the State Senate that will ban homophobic bullying in schools. The ‘Safe Schools for All Children Bill’ calls for training to help teachers identify and respond to bullying and places the responsibility of keeping tack on bullying cases with schools. The bill also includes protection for transgender students …

Without a lawsuit, the ACLU has won a broad list of measures to protect LGBT students in a northern California school district. The ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC) has reached a settlement with the Upper Lake Union School District that contains a comprehensive series of steps the district will undertake to protect students from anti-gay harassment and discrimination. The agreement …

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has indicated that he will sign the anti-bullying law which passed in Florida’s Senate yesterday after being approved by the House earlier in the year. The legislation mandates that school districts throughout the state must put in place specific policies to deal with bullying that includes methods of investigating and punishments. It also bans cyber bullying. …

Infamous Seattle-area anti-gay activist Rev. Ken Hutcherson led a walk-out of his daughter’s high school in protest of their Day Of Silence on Friday, with over one-third of the school taking part. A Day of Silence inside Mount Si High School meant to show support for gay and lesbian students erupted in noisy protests outside. More than one-third of students …