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Church of England announces campaign to combat anti-gay bullying
LONDON — The Archbishop of Canterbury has announced a campaign to stamp out anti-gay bullying in Church of England schools, acknowledging that attitudes toward sexuality have changed.
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Iowa governor says he’ll try again to advance statewide anti-bullying effort
DES MOINES, Iowa — A bill designed to crack down on so-called cyber-bullying failed to advance in the Iowa state legislature this year, but Gov. Terry Branstad plans to keep working to toughen Iowa’s anti bullying laws.
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Tyler Clementi anti-harassment act re-introduced in Congress
During a dedication ceremony Monday of the Tyler Clementi Center at Rutgers University in New Jersey, U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, (D-N.J.) announced that he U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) have reintroduced legislation in Congress that would require colleges to implement anti-harassment policies.
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Gay Pa. lawmaker leads efforts to gain bipartisan support for anti-bullying bill
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Freshman state lawmaker, Rep. Brian Sims (D-Philadelphia), the first openly gay elected member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, is leading efforts in the state House to gain bipartisan support for an anti-bullying bill known as the Pennsylvania Safe Schools (PASS) Act.
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Bullying study suggests ‘it gets better’ as LGBT youth get older
CHICAGO — It really does get better for gay and bisexual teens when it comes to being bullied, although young gay men have it worse than their lesbian peers, according to the first long-term scientific evidence on how the problem changes over time.
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Rutgers University names new student center for Tyler Clementi
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Rutgers University has announced it has named a new student named for Tyler Clementi, a gay student who jumped to his death in 2010 after his roommate used a webcam to record Clementi in an intimate encounter with another man.
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Jadin Bell: The Lynching of a Butterfly and the Modern Mob
The officials are calling the impending death of young Jadin a “suicide”. It was not a suicide; it was the destruction of something innocent, something beautiful, something of supreme contribution exposed to an environment that valued it not at all. The facts support their word perhaps. No argument. A 15 year old boy took a rope to a playground and without assistance from any visible being, hung himself.
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Oregon teen in critical condition after hanging himself due to anti-gay bullying
LA GRANDE, Ore. — A 15-year-old teen has been taken off life support and is in critical condition after hanging himself over what family members describe as anti-gay bullying. Jadin Bell of La Grande, Ore., went to the playground of Central Elementary School on Jan. 19, climbed on a play structure and hanged himself. He […]
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Survey: Most Colorado schools not in compliance with school bullying law
DENVER — Most of Colorado’s school districts have yet to update their bullying policies to come into compliance with a 2011 state law protecting LGBT youth, a survey by the state’s largest LGBT advocacy organization shows.
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New York lawmakers pass bill to crack down on cyber-bullying
ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York state legislature this week approved a bill that would require the state’s public schools to develop procedures to address complaints of email, texting and online harassment — also referred to as cyber-bullying.