The Lastg Impact Of 'That's So Gay'
Contents:
- WHEN WORDS CAN KILL: 'THAT'S SO GAY'
- 'THAT'S SO GAY' PHRASE HAS LASTG IMPACT FOR LGBT YOUTH, STUDY FDS
- THAT'S SO GAY!
WHEN WORDS CAN KILL: 'THAT'S SO GAY'
April 14, 2009 — -- Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover was 11-- hardly old enough to know his sexualy and yet distrght enough to hang himself last week after school bulli repeatedly lled him "gay. "Walker said her son's 11-year-old tormentors were worse than the breast ncer she had survived four years an ironic twist, the boy would have turned 12 on April 17 -- the same day stunts thoands of schools across the untry will participate the annual Day of Silence to brg attentn to anti-gay harassment schools.
'THAT'S SO GAY' PHRASE HAS LASTG IMPACT FOR LGBT YOUTH, STUDY FDS
"There was no reason for the mother to believe he was gay, " said Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network spokman Daryl Prgrav. "It jt happens he was someone his peers targeted, llg him, 'girlie, ' 'gay' and 'fag.
THAT'S SO GAY!
"Middle School SuicisCarl's suici about a year after California eighth-grar Lawrence Kg was shot and killed by a fellow stunt his classroom for supposedly beg rponse, GLSEN has lnched a multipronged tn mpaign to fight the e of anti-gay language and annual Day of Silence, started at the Universy of Virgia 1996 wh 150 stunts, has now grown to more than 7, 500 middle and high schools natnwi.