Teen Bullying

The Gay Selma

River Front Times | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Homophobia, Gay Bullying, Teen Bullying, Schools, Bully, Anti-Gay Bullying, School Bullying, Bullying, Gay Voices News

Gay kids have long been a target of bullying. Until recently incidents could be laughed off as "pranks," and no one suffered any consequences -- excep...

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WATCH: Deaf Gay Teen Recounts Standing Up To A Bully

Nathan Manske | Posted 05.24.2012

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Bullying And Suicide: Ending The Denial

Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 05.11.2012

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Bullying must not be seen as simply a "youth problem" but as resulting from larger societal issues. Institutional bullying and harassment do not exist within a vacuum but reflect and actually reproduce the messages and actions stemming from the social environment.

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Teen Hangs Herself After Months Of Bullying, 'Slut' Scrawled On Locker

Posted 05.09.2012

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Rachel Ehmke, a 13-year-old seventh grader in Mantorville, Minn., died April 29 after hanging herself at her home. The months leading up to the traged...

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Teen Victims Of Cyberbullying Fight Back In lawsuits

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN and DORIE TURNER | Posted 04.27.2012

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ATLANTA — When a Georgia middle school student reported to police and school officials that she had been bullied on Facebook, they told her ther...

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To End School Bullying, We Must Change Our Culture

Jon Siebels | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Bullying, Teen Bullying, School Bullying, Bullying Culture, Gay Voices News

Bullying is a problem in our culture. It's going to be hard to create a law that demands that people be nice to each other. I believe that like all cultural changes, this one needs to start in our own homes.

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'Bully' Is A Wake-Up Call... For Adults

Carrie Jacobs, Ph.D. | Posted 04.25.2012

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The film offers our youth nothing but a painful look at what they already see and feel almost daily. It poignantly highlights to young people how invisible their lives can be to adults, and just how unsupportive and inattentive adults can be.

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Memoirs Of Little Boy Blue

Pandora Boxx | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: School Bullying, Bullying, Teen Bullying, Anti-Gay Bullying, Gay Teen Bullying, Gay Voices News

"Fag." "Homo." "Queer." Every day. That's what I heard as I walked through the halls. Sometimes that's all I felt I ever heard. I didn't even know what those words meant. They were just horrid little gnats that gnawed at my skin, pecking away my flesh, stripping me to the bone.

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Confessions Of A Bullied 'Cubanito'

Chuck Gomez | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Bullying, Anti-Bullying Measures, Gay Bullying, Teen Bullying, Anti-Gay Bullying, School Bullying, Gay Voices News

I was an 11-year-old Florida "Cubanito," and for almost five years I was bullied repeatedly. I was followed home from school. I was jeered and taunted. I was called a sissy and worse. I was pulled and pushed by bands of teens. Then one day I got the courage to stand my ground.

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Bully: Has a Timeless Issue Found Its Moment?

Lee Hirsch | Posted 04.13.2012

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We have seen the national conversation evolve from a growing awareness of the bullying crisis, to collectively mourning the many lives this crisis has taken, to looking toward the future in hope in knowing we must find a way to prevent these tragedies in the future.

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WATCH: 10-Year-Old Filmmaker Has Inspiring Message

Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Bullying Prevention, 10-Year-Old Anti-Bullying Movie, Day of Silence, Bullying, Lgbt Bullying, Gerry Orz, Anti-Bullying Film, Anti-Bullying, Gay Bullying, Video, 10-Year-Old Anti-Bullying, Anti-Bullying Campaign, Anti-Bullying Movie, Teen Bullying, Anti-Gay Bullying, School Bullying, Los Angeles News

10-year-old Gerry Orz is living proof of the mantra, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." He has been bullied in school for being "too tall, ga...

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Bullying: Why Social and Emotional Learning in Schools Is Paramount to Prevention

Michael Jascz | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Bullying-Education, School Bullying, Bullying, Bullying Prevention, Teen Bullying, New York Schools, Bully, Education News

How does a child reach the point that they become a bully? Could the things our caregivers say and do, while well-intentioned, set the stage for bullying behavior to later surface?

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Why I'm An Anti-Bullying Activist

Noah Baron | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Bullying, LGBT Youth, Anti-Gay Bullying, Gay Bullying, Lgbt Teen Bullying, Lgbt Bullying, Anti-Lgbt Bullying, Teen Bullying, Gay Teen Bullying, School Bullying, Gay Voices News

Tears welled up in my eyes, not only because of the sheer tragedy of Jacob's story, but because it is, sadly, all too common. LGBT teenagers take their lives on a regular basis, but the reasons are often misunderstood -- and I know, because I've been there.

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'Life's Candy, And The Sun's A Ball of Butter': How Show Tunes Got Me Through My Hardest Moments

Gary Nelson | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Teen Bullying, Showtunes, Anti-Gay Bullying, School Bullying, Show Tunes, Gay Voices News

The pimply boy came toward me with his homemade blowtorch. Left to my own resources, I defended myself. I started singing exactly what came to my mind at that very moment: "Don't tell me just to live and sit and putter; life's candy, and the sun's a ball of butter..."

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Bullying Hurts, No Matter How Small

Tyler Moss | Posted 05.27.2012

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This year 13 million kids in the United States will suffer some form of bullying. With the documentary Bully -- in limited release this Friday -- drawing national attention to the subject, it seems pertinent to reflect on my own limited experience.

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UPDATE: Ellen Joins The Fight For 'Bully' Documentary

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.08.2012

17-year-old Katy Butler knows what it feels like to be bullied. When she came out as a lesbian in middle school, the bullying got so bad that she ende...

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Introducing the Born This Way Foundation

Cynthia Germanotta | Posted 04.30.2012

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Today is a special day for my daughter and me as we share something we've been working on for almost a year and have been talking about as mother and daughter for much longer.

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Let's Protect Our Children Against Bullying by Creating Safe and Inclusive Spaces in Schools

Christine C. Quinn | Posted 04.18.2012

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I am proud that the New York City Council has crated the Respect for All (RFA) program in our public schools. RFA creates safe spaces for students by giving them a forum to celebrate their identity and diversity regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

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Hazed High Schoolers Allegedly Victimized Again, Not Allowed To Play Sports

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 04.12.2012

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JACKSON, Miss. — The parents of two boys who say the teens were punched during high school baseball hazing rituals say they're being victimized ...

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The Dangerous Mistake We Make About Bullying

HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Amanda Cummings, Suicides, Bullying, Suicide, Bullies, Tyler Clementi Suicide, Anti-Bullying, Bullying-Suicide, Cyberbullying, Gay Youth Suicide, Teen Suicide, Teen Bullying, Youth Suicide, Suicide Prevention, School Bullying, Tyler Clementi, Parents News

Tyler Clementi killed himself in 2010 after his roommate at Rutgers University filmed him kissing another man. Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old girl who m...

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'I Was A Teenage Bully': 8 Stories From Real Girls

| Jenny Zhang | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Rookie Mag, Girl Bullying, Video, Cyberbullying, Bullying Stories, High School Bullying, Bullying, Tavi Gevinson, Teen Bullying, Bullies, Girl Bullies, Rookie, High School News

Trying to talk seriously about bullying is hard. The word alone sounds cheesy. As part of Rookie’s continuing series on bullies, and how we are the...

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Another Gay Tennessee Teen Takes His Own Life

Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Teen Bullying, Gay Teen Bullying, Gay Voices News

A Tennessee teen's parents claim that constant anti-gay bullying led their son to take his own life. As WSMV is reporting, parents and grandparent...

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Elementary School Climates And Bullying Examined In New GLSEN Report

Posted 01.18.2012

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Given that more and more youngsters are self-identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) at younger ages, a new report hopes to shed ...

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Child, Please: How Much Worse Does It Have To Get Before 'It Gets Better'?

David Groshoff | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: It Gets Better Project, Cyberbullying, Gay Teen Suicide, Bullying, Teen Bullying, It Gets Better, Anti-Gay Bullying, Gay Suicide, Gay Teen Bullying, School Bullying, Gay Teens, Gay Voices News

I'm calling B.S. on the "It Gets Better" propaganda. As we unfortunately just learned, it didn't get better for EricJames Borges, who took his own life only a month after filming his video for the "It Gets Better" campaign.

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LGBT Advocates, Students Slam Tennessee Anti-Bullying Law Change

Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Tennessee Bullying, Gay Teen Suicides, Gay Teen Suicide, Bullying, Tennessee, Teens, Teen Bullying, Anti-Gay Bullying, Gay Teen Bullying, Gay Teens, Gay Voices News

Less than one month after a local gay teen took his own life after allegedly being tormented at his high school, a proposed change in a Tennessee law ...

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