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Brandon Bitner: Anti-gay bullying leads to another tragic teen suicide
Anti-gay bullying has reportedly claimed another teen life. Brandon Bitner, 14, of Mount Pleasant Mills, Penn., walked 13 miles from his home early Friday morning to a busy intersection and threw himself in front of an oncoming tractor-trailer after leaving a suicide note at his home.
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Obama, Clinton tell LGBT youth: ‘It Gets Better’ (Videos)
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week joined the thousands of Americans that have come together as part of the It Gets Better Project to share stories of hope and encouragement for LGBT youth who are struggling with bullying and intolerance over their sexual orientation. “I don’t know what it’s like […]
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‘Spirit Day’ shadowed by news of another teen suicide in the LGBT community
The LGBT community mourns the loss of another teen due to suicide. Campus police at Oakland University in Rochester, MI, police report the body of 19-year-old Corey Jackson was found in a wooded area of the campus.
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Openly gay city council member delivers heart wrenching plea to LGBT youth (Video)
Joel Burns, an openly gay city council member in Fort Worth, TX gave a heart-wrenching, impassioned plea on Tuesday evening to LGBT youth struggling with their sexual identity or facing intense adversity among their families, community or bullying by their peers.
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Four more teen suicides reported, two from within LGBT community
More sad news to report today as word comes of four more teen suicides, at least two of them from within the LGBTQ teen community. Justin “Chloe” Lacey and Aiyisha Hassan, both 19, committed suicide in recent weeks.
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Target, Best Buy’s pick for MN governor won’t support anti-bullying legislation
The national debate over bullying entered the Minnesota governor’s race Saturday during a televised debate in which Republican candidate Tom Emmer said that he would oppose legislation to combat school bullying against gay and lesbian young people.
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Oklahoma gay teen commits suicide after ‘toxic’ city council debate
An Oklahoma teen has committed suicide, barely one week after attending a local City Council meeting where a debate over whether or not the city would recognize October as LGBT History Month got “toxic,” with many homophobic statements thrown around in front of him.
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Valerie Jarrett at annual HRC event: gay teen suicides a ‘terrible tragedy’
Valerie Jarrett, a Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, spoke at the annual national dinner of the Human Rights Campaign on Saturday evening to address the recent suicides within the LGBT community related to anti-gay bullying.
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LDS children’s book on ‘overcoming homosexuality’ finds a home on WalMart shelves
More than 100 WalMart stores are stocking a new children’s book — Chased by an Elephant: The Gospel Truth About Today’s Stampeding Sexuality — that counsels truth and accepting Jesus as the path to over coming homosexuality.
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LGBT activists stage NYC ‘die-in’ protest to honor suicide victims, demand civil rights
More than 300 LGBT activists dropped to the floor in Grand Central Station in New York City Friday evening in a demonstration of death, aimed at calling attention to the rash of recent bullying, torture, suicides, and murders of LGBT Americans. At around 6 p.m. in the main concourse of the nation’s busiest transit hub, […]