Tyler Clementi Told Fay He Was Gay 3 Weeks Before Suici: Parents – NBC New York

Contents:

• TYLER CLEMENTI: RUTGERS STUNT SUICI CS OUTRAGE, STIRS GAY RIGHTS GROUPS
• SCE SUICI, MORE ROURC FOR TRANSGENR AND GAY STUNTS
• TYLER CLEMENTI TOLD FAY HE WAS GAY 3 WEEKS BEFORE SUICI: PARENTS
• GAY STUNT'S DEATH HIGHLIGHTS TROUBLG TREND
• RUTGERS PRINT TO MEET WH GAY MUNY AFTER STUNT'S SUICI

TYLER CLEMENTI: RUTGERS STUNT SUICI CS OUTRAGE, STIRS GAY RIGHTS GROUPS

Gay rights groups say that the young man's suici mak him an example of a problem they are creasgly workg to bat: young people killg themselv after beg tormented for their sexualy. "It's tolerant, 's upsettg, mak seem that beg gay is somethg that is wrong and n be nsired lghable.

Last week, Dan Savage, the sex advice lumnist at the Seattle weekly newspaper The Stranger, lnched the latt effort to try to stem the problem: the It Gets Better Project, a YouTube channel where gay, lbian and bisexual adults share the turmoil they experienced when they were younger - and that their liv are better now. They also say they have changed their views on homosexualy the wake of their son’s ath. Jt weeks before he left home to attend Rutgers he told his mother he was gay.

”“Was that pot A, the pot of "homosexualy is a s? ”Now, Jane Clementi says she and her fay are tryg to help gay teens w greater acceptance through the foundatn they’ve started Tyler’s honor. Clementi’s parents say they hope The Tyler Clementi Foundatn will disurage cyber bullyg and the notn that they themselv once held that homosexualy is a s.

SCE SUICI, MORE ROURC FOR TRANSGENR AND GAY STUNTS

“S needs to be taken out of homosexualy, ” said Joe Clementi. The suici of Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers Universy hman and talented vlist who jumped off the Gee Washgton Bridge September 2010 after a rerdg of him havg an timate enunter wh a man was streamed onle by his roommate, sparked a natnal nversatn about bullyg of gay youths.

Gay rights groups say Clementi's suici mak him an example of a problem they are creasgly workg to bat: young people who kill themselv after beg tormented over their sexualy. Gay rights groups say Clementi's suici mak him a natnal example of a problem they are creasgly workg to bat: young people who kill themselv after beg tormented over their sexualy.

The suici of Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers Universy hman who jumped off the Gee Washgton Bridge September 2010 after a rerdg of him havg an timate enunter wh a man was broadst onle, sparked a natnal nversatn about bullyg of gay youths. The suici of Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers Universy hman who jumped off the Gee Washgton Bridge September 2010 after a rerdg of him havg a sexual enunter wh a man was broadst onle, sparked a natnal nversatn about bullyg of gay youths.

TYLER CLEMENTI TOLD FAY HE WAS GAY 3 WEEKS BEFORE SUICI: PARENTS

In orr to nvict Ravi of bias timidatn, prosecutors mt persua jurors that he acted out of bias toward gays. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSce Suici, More Rourc for Transgenr and Gay Paskova for The New York TimSept. — It has been two years sce Tyler Clementi, a gay hman at Rutgers Universy, mted suici after learng that his roommate had ridiculed his sexualy and ved iends to spy on him and another man through a webm.

That terrible episo brought the school natnal attentn, none of wele: prevly known as a large and diverse state school, Rutgers beme associated wh homophobia and today, gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr stunts and their supporters n choose om four specialized hog optns, three of them new, rangg om a service to pair them wh like-md roommat to Rabow Perspectiv, a floor a rince hall anized around mon terts. Rutgers has a long history of clivens; when the Rutgers Homophile League was found 1969, for example, was among the first such stunt groups the natn.

In addn to those oversubscribed trag programs, she said she uld not even prt up “ally” lapel ps fast enough; as soon as she sets out a thoand, people snatch them up and ask for beyond gay and transgenr stunts themselv, and the ncentric circle of those who actively posn themselv as alli, is not clear how far the center’s msage has gotten. Kurtz said she had yet to meet anyone who was ls than Rutgers is, after all, a universy of 59, 000 stunts across several Koekemoer, a medieval studi major who graduated last year, said he heard numero homophobic slurs over the years. “I almost followed the two dus bee they were snickerg and potg” at a gay iend, he Koekemoer, who is heterosexual, said he himself was sometim lled an antigay slur, even durg S.

GAY STUNT'S DEATH HIGHLIGHTS TROUBLG TREND

Goop, the print of Rutgers’s chapter of Delta Lambda Phi, a predomantly gay aterny, said “the culture might have been different a few years ago. Clementi’s ath, he speculated, “a lot of people who might be homophobic probably won’t say so bee of the nsequenc they n see n happen.

Clementi, had not been nvicted of vasn of privacy and bias timidatn, though his 30-day jail sentence was cricized by some gay-rights advot as too jt that short span, beg a gay llege stunt may have e to mean somethg slightly, but ccially, different than did when Mr. “I’m om South Jersey, and ’s a rather homophobic area, ” said Andrew Massaro, a junr and a Delta Lambda Phi brother. ”The rult is a universy where, some stunts say, the prence of highly visible gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr stunts has bee jt a basic and unexceptnal part of mp life.

RUTGERS PRINT TO MEET WH GAY MUNY AFTER STUNT'S SUICI

And Nick Margoli, now a sophomore, liv there wh a male roommate — which also would be agast the l for the same reason. Leonard Haas, a fellow aterny member, said he once heard a homophobic tnt at Rutgers as he walked down the street holdg another man’s hand.

Haas felt so fortable as a gay man at Rutgers, and bee that stray ment was so much at odds wh the warm receptn he had otherwise received, he shgged off. 28, 2012: An article on Saturday about an crease rourc for gay stunts at Rutgers Universy sce the suici of Tyler Clementi two years ago, g rmatn om the universy, erroneoly attributed a distctn to a gay stunt group there. While the universy was among the first to have such a group (found 1969), the Rutgers Homophile League is not “the send such stunt group the natn.