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Lady Gaga performs tribute to Jamey Rodemeyer
Entertainer Lady Gaga on Saturday performed a tribute for Williamsville, N.Y. gay teen Jamey Rodemeyer, at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas. Jamey, 14, committed suicide last week after enduring years of anti-gay bullying at school and online. He was laid to rest on Saturday.
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Jamey Rodemeyer laid to rest
Jamey Rodemeyer was laid to rest on Saturday. .More than 500 mourners, many of who were strangers, turned out in Williamsville, N.Y. to say goodbye to Jamey, a 14-year-old gay teen who committed suicide earlier this week after enduring years of bullying at school and online.
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Amherst police open criminal investigation of Jamey Rodemeyer bullying, suicide
Police in the town of Amherst in suburban Buffalo, N.Y. have opened a criminal investigation in the suicide death of 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer, who was bullied with anti-gay slurs for the past two years, both at school and online.
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Alarming trend in suicide among LGBT youth nearing pandemic, says CDC
There was a time when faculty members in schools across America bracing for the annual after summer break of their students worried about seemingly inconsequential issues. Now it seems, according to a high school teacher in the western New York township of Williamsville, preventing adolescent death by suicide due to extreme bullying seems to be the prevalent challenge.
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Christians and the Blood of Jamey Rodemeyer
If you’re a Christian who believes that being gay is a morally reprehensible offense against God, then you share a mindset, worldview, and moral structure with the kids who hounded Jamey Rodemeyer — literally, to death.
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Gay teenager struggled with bullying before taking his life
“I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens,” Jamey Rodemeyer wrote Sept. 9. “What do I have to do so people will listen to me?” Just over one week later, Jamey, 14, was found dead outside his home of an apparent suicide.