A Colorado 9-year-old end his own life Thursday, shortly after g out as gay and beg bullied at school, acrdg to his mother, Leia Pierce.
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- COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG
- GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG
- BULLYG OF GAY STUNTS, AND SUICIS
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- DO BULLYG LEAD TO SUICI AMONG GAY TEENS?
COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG
* gay suicides from bullying *
A 2017 survey om the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, for example, found that almost half of lbian, gay and bisexual stunts had serly nsired suici.
GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG
Gay bullyg, gay bashg happens to the majory of gay youth and n e great harm, cludg suici, but people are workg to stop gay bullyg. * gay suicides from bullying *
And The Trevor Project, a suici preventn group, not that lbian, gay and bisexual youth are almost five tim as likely to have attempted suici pared to heterosexual youth. Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng (LGBTQ) stunts are more than four tim as likely to attempt suici pared to their straight and cisgenr peers (Johns et al., 2019; Johns et al., 2020).
His mother said he recently me out as gay and was bullied at school. He had recently e out as gay to his mother, who believ that bullyg was a factor his ath, she told HLN’s Mike Galanos on Tuday. “The same kids who picked on him last year were even meaner to him once he me out and said he was gay, ” said Leia Pierce, Jamel Myl’ mother.
A 9-year-old Colorado boy who died by suici last week had been bullied at school after announcg over the summer that he was gay and exprsg his sire to share the news wh his classmat, his mother said. Pierce said her son told her over the summer that he was gay while they were together her r and he was ridg the back seat. “He was like, ‘Mom I’m gay, ’ ” she said, reports KDVR.
BULLYG OF GAY STUNTS, AND SUICIS
The revelatn apparently eed Jamel to share the rmatn wh others, his mom said: “He went to school and said he was gonna tell people he’s gay bee he’s proud of himself.
Gay bullyg and gay bashg are actns that hurt all. A rash of gay suicis 2011 prov how adly gay bullyg n be. Gay bullyg statistics dite that gay teens are two-to-three tim more likely to m suici than other youths and about 30% of all suicis have been lked to a genr inty crisis.
None of the aths had to occur, but they did bee each of the people was sent the msage that was better to be ad than to be gay.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
What is Gay Bullyg, Gay Bashg?
Gay bullyg and gay bashg is bullyg or treatg one poorly bee they are gay (fn of gay) or bee they are thought to be gay. The targets are primarily people who do not f to genr stereotype rol whether they are, fact, gay or not. Gay bullyg statistics dite that 9-out-of-10 gay youth have been subject to bullyg and that, of those, almost half were physilly harassed and a quarter report beg physilly asslted.
DO BULLYG LEAD TO SUICI AMONG GAY TEENS?
Gay bullyg or gay bashg may be:. Vlent anti-gay imag.
Gay discrimatn. Any dividual mor cince of gay bullyg or gay bashg may be somethg that someone n al wh but the ma problem wh is s pervasive and nsistent nature to the pot where jur an dividual's self-teem and sire to live.
Adult Gay Bullyg. And while we often thk of children or teens when we thk gay bullyg, bullyg occurs adult suatns, such as the workplace, as well.