NetFamilyNews.org“For many gay youth, middle school is more survival than learning – one parent of a gay teenager I spent time with likened her child’s middle school to a ‘war zone’,” wrote Benoit Denizet-Lewis in the New York Times Magazine. He told of a middle school counselor in Maine who says anti-gay language is embedded [...]
This month two 11-year-olds, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover of Springfield, Mass., and Jaheem Herrera of DeKalb County, Ga. – neither of whom identified as gay – committed suicide after anti-gay harassment and bullying at school. “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth are up to four times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers,” [...]
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