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.
'THAT'S SO GAY' PHRASE HAS LASTG IMPACT FOR LGBT YOUTH, STUDY FDS
"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.
"There was no reason for the mother to believe he was gay, " said Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network spokman Daryl Prgrav.
THAT'S SO GAY!
"It jt happens he was someone his peers targeted, llg him, 'girlie, ' 'gay' and 'fag.