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School officials say video of attack on gay teen surfaced after its investigation
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — Authorities and school officials at at Union-Scioto High School in Chillicothe, Ohio, are once again investigating the attack on a gay teen whose mother is calling the assault a hate crime, now that video evidence has surfaced that was not previously known to exist.
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Attack on gay teen caught on video; mother seeking hate crime charges
The mother of a 15-year-old gay teen who was brutally attacked because he is gay, is seeking to have hate crime charges brought against her son’s assailant. The beating, captured on video using a cell phone, was then posted to Facebook.
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School board: Joplin teacher cleared of wrongdoing in anti-gay Facebook post
JOPLIN, Mo. — A high school math teacher in Joplin, Mo., who allegedly posted anti-gay comments on Facebook, including a suggestion that more gay youth should commit suicide, has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the school district.
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Missouri teacher under fire for suggesting more gay youth should commit suicide
A high school teacher in Joplin, Mo., is the latest teacher under fire for alleged posting anti-gay remarks on Facebook, which included a suggestion that more gay youth should commit suicide.
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Alabama lawmaker pre-files bill to add sexual orientation to anti-bullying policies
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama’s first openly lesbian legislator, state Rep. Patricia Todd, (D-Birmingham), pre-filed legislation last week to expand anti-bullying policies to explicitly prohibit harassment in schools on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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University Dean calls for teaching acceptance of LGBTQ students in Canadian schools
REGINA, Saskatchewan, Canada — Teaching acceptance of LGBTQ students needs to be part of the school curriculum in Canada because the majority of bullying in schools is centered in homophobic attitudes, says James McNinch, Dean of Education at the University of Regina.
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Canadian Parliament calls for acceptance, tolerance in wake of gay teen’s suicide
In a speech before the House Of Commons on Thursday, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, told the gathered Members of Parliament and ministers that there is no place in the nation’s schools for the bullying that drove an openly a gay Ottawa teen take his own life.
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Trevor Project director warns: Media attention of specific LGBTQ youth suicides harmful
David McFarland, the interim executive director and CEO for The Trevor Project — a national suicide prevention hotline for LGBT youth — is warning that overexposure by the media and LGBT bloggers, press, and Facebook pages focusing on specific cases of suicides by LGBT youth may be exacerbating the problem.
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Millions expected to dress in purple, in person and online, for Spirit Day
Millions of Americans will dress in purple on Thursday — both in person and online — to mark the second annual Spirit Day, a day demonstrate support for LGBT youth and to speak out against bullying.
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Another gay teen suicide: It’s not bullying — it’s school mugging
I am so fed up with writing the same story — over and over and over again. This madness has to stop, and the first way we decrease these tragedies is to stop minimizing the torment and harassment by reducing it to mere bullying.