U.S. Education Secretary releases statement regarding recent LGBT youth suicides

LGBT, NewsBites — By on October 4, 2010 at 3:07 pm

The following statement was found via the GLSEN blog:

This week, we sadly lost two young men who took their own lives for one unacceptable reason: they were being bullied and harassed because they were openly gay or believed to be gay. These unnecessary tragedies come on the heels of at least three other young people taking their own lives because the trauma of being bullied and harassed for their actual or perceived sexual orientation was too much to bear.

This is a moment where every one of us — parents, teachers, students, elected officials, and all people of conscience — needs to stand up and speak out against intolerance in all its forms. Whether it’s students harassing other students because of ethnicity, disability or religion; or an adult, public official harassing the President of the University of Michigan student body because he is gay, it is time we as a country said enough. No more. This must stop.

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  • http://twitter.com/sunmoonvision Becky Sangha

    A great statement, we cannot accept the loss of even one life, let a lone the amount we have seen this past month. This is a call to action for all of us. Sun & Moon Vision Productions is committed to creating film/documentary to advocate for safe schools for all youth. Our first film YOUTH OUT LOUD! is used by many universities and schools across the country but it’s too old. The organizations/universities who use it are asking for more tools to help them train teachers, educate students and parents, and advocate for safe campuses. So we are creating YOUTH OUT LOUD! II – we need your help to raise the finishing funds to complete the film. see our website at http://sunandmoonvision.org/youthoutloudII.html. Thanks!

  • http://facebook.com/brooke.n.murphy Brooke Murphy

    Thanks so much for stopping by the site and leaving this information for the help of our readers!

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