A 12-year-old New Jersey boy was bullied for beg gay, lawsu says. He died by suici.

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• A 12-YEAR-OLD NEW JERSEY BOY WAS BULLIED FOR BEG GAY, LAWSU SAYS. HE DIED BY SUICI.
• COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG
• HOCKEY STAR KURTIS GABRIEL SPEAKS UP FOR GAY KID BULLIED TO DEATH
• THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
• MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
• MOTHER OF GAY ALABAMA TEEN WHO DIED BY SUICI HOP HIS ATH ENURAG TOLERANCE
• MOM SAID SON, 9, KILLED HIMSELF AFTER HE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG GAY
• 12-YEAR-OLD BOY DI BY SUICI AFTER CLASSMAT ALLEGEDLY BULLIED HIM, SAID HE’D GO TO HELL BEE HE WAS GAY
• VIRAL VIO OF TEEN PUNCHG CLASSMATE DRAWS ATTENTN TO ANTI-GAY BULLYG
• 12-YEAR-OLD DI BY SUICI AFTER BULLI SAY HE’D GO TO HELL FOR BEG GAY
• TENNSEE BOY DI BY SUICI AFTER HE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG GAY
• PARENTS OF GAY TEEN WHO DIED BY SUICI SUE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR IGNORG HIS PLEAS FOR HELP

A 12-YEAR-OLD NEW JERSEY BOY WAS BULLIED FOR BEG GAY, LAWSU SAYS. HE DIED BY SUICI.

A New Jersey mother is sug a lol school district, claimg that her 12-year-old son took his own life 2017 bee classmat bullied him for beg gay.

Tristan Peterson, a stunt at Woodff Middle School Bridgeton the southern part of the state, me out as gay to his peers 2017, acrdg to the lawsu. Police said that they believe the bullyg was due to homophobia. “No one my school r about preventg suici, while you’re the on llg me [gay slur] and tearg me down, ” Romeyer had blogged on his Tumblr acunt on Sept.

Per the Trevor Project, lbian, gay and bi youth serly ntemplate suici at nearly three tim the rate of their heterosexual peers.

COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG

TIME: In the ten years sce Jamey’s ath, you and your fay have worked to bat bullyg and homophobia.

Tim: Another thg that I’ve taken away om this experience is jt how many kids there are that need to talk to somebody schools about beg bullied—for beg gay, or jt beg different some way. Tim: We’re still talkg about homophobic bullyg, and we shouldn’t be. 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.

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.

HOCKEY STAR KURTIS GABRIEL SPEAKS UP FOR GAY KID BULLIED TO DEATH

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.

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. When a hockey star wrote a hard-htg Twter thread yterday based on my recent story about 12-year-old Eli Frchley, a gay kid phed to suici by Christian bullyg, my first thought was, “Thank you so much for rg. He later told cur sports reporters his cisn was personal:To have someone your life that you know unsupported by their fay bee of gettg to a relatnship wh a same-sex person…that was pretty shockg to that year, Kurtis, who is straight, told Outsports Magaze he’d be keepg the tape on his stick for the rt of his reer, sayg he wants gay pro hockey players to know they’d have a strong iend him if they me out.

THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’

He timated that at least a few gay NHL players existed, all closeted. Today I am proud to publicly tell everyone that I am gay.

In April 2013, Joe Bell left his home La Gran, a small town the northeast rner of Oregon, to walk across the untry honor of his 15-year-old son, Jad, who had died Febary a few weeks after attemptg and his wife, Lola Lathrop, told lol and natnal news outlets at the time that Jad was bullied for beg gay, both onle and at school. He was the only out gay stunt at La Gran High School.

In addn to beg the only out gay stunt at his school, he was also the only boy on the cheerleadg squad, and Bell told Salon 2013 that he was bullied for said he uld relate to Jad and his story, bee he was also bullied growg up Texas. 19, 2010, Seth Walsh, a gay 13-year-old livg Southern California, died by suici after beg bullied. Three days later, Tyler Clementi, a gay stunt at Rutgers Universy-New Bnswick, killed himself after beg rerd on a webm kissg another man.

MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR

Twenty years ago, Matthew Shepard was a "smart, funny" 21-year-old, no different than any other young man that was an "ordary kid who wanted to make the world a better place, " his parents October 1998, that all changed, when the openly gay llege stunt was abducted, beaten and tied to a fence life end a few days later, and wh me a wispread awarens of the dangers that members of the LGBTQ muny face every day. The homophobic btal killg also served as a talyst for progrs Ameri's laws and the two s that have passed, however, remas batable how far the untry has e sce the shock of that crime.

They later nfsed they had "veloped a roe which they'd pretend to be gay to w Matt's nfince, " Marsn said. (MORE: 'Gay panic' fense still ed vlence s may be banned by new feral bill)McKney h Shepard about 20 tim the head and face wh the end of the pistol, Marsn said, before the two stole Shepard's sho, got their tck and drove back to town. Agast the gay muny until after he grew up to bee very terted ternatnal human rights, particularly women's rights the Middle East and Asia, and he studied polil science, said Marsn.

MOTHER OF GAY ALABAMA TEEN WHO DIED BY SUICI HOP HIS ATH ENURAG TOLERANCE

"He said, 'Mom I'm gay.

"Everybody he met, he said, 'Jt to let you know ahead of time, I'm gay, '" Dennis Shepard said. Agast the gay muny until after he died, " he said. "The natn mournsThe shockg homophobic crime the sparsely-populated state garnered natnal sympathy.

A ndlelight vigil is held for Sla gay Wyomg stunt Matthew Shepard, Oct. Members of the Wtboro Baptist Church protted the funeral, picketg wh anti-gay Fred Phelps and his parishners traveled om Kansas to Laramie for the funeral and trial, prottg wh brightly lored signs and spewg hatred. McKney went to trial, and fense attorneys argued his vlent actns were "gay panic" -- a reactn to Shepard makg a sexual advance.

MOM SAID SON, 9, KILLED HIMSELF AFTER HE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG GAY

"When the fense gets out there and starts talkg out of, the victim's flt, you know, 'gay panic, '...

"The "gay panic" fense is still legal most stat but has been outlawed a few. McKney has cled to speak to ABC News while Henrson did not immediately rpond to a requt for WashgtonShepard's murr shed a light on the spe of feral hate crime laws, which at the time did not clu sexual orientatn or genr gay activists monstrate the streets of North Hollywood to prott agast the ath of Wyomg Universy stunt Mathew Shepard, Oct.

13, Mata/AFP via Getty Imag FILEDemonstrators prott the hate killg of gay stunt Matthew Shepard, Oct.

12-YEAR-OLD BOY DI BY SUICI AFTER CLASSMAT ALLEGEDLY BULLIED HIM, SAID HE’D GO TO HELL BEE HE WAS GAY

Matthew Shepard was tortured and murred 1998 and was targeted for beg gay, acrdg to wns. "Beyond the feral hate crime law, the years sce Matthew Shepard's ath, among the most substantive legislative ws for the LGBTQ muny were the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell 2010, so gay ary members n serve openly whout fear of beg dismissed, and the legalizatn of same-sex marriage across the untry 2015.

Michael Loccisano/Getty Imag, FILEFor Judy Shepard, one of the bt signs of cultural progrs is seeg Gay Straight Alliance groups rampg up schools. In Wyomg, where there's a populatn of jt 500, 000, she said there are 19 Gay Straight Allianc.

Abel Ceno, a gay teenager who stabbed a fellow stunt to ath at his Bronx high school and serly wound another what he said was an act of self-fense, was found guilty of all charg, 19, has said he was bullied for years by his peers over his perceived sexualy. He me out as gay after his arrt.

VIRAL VIO OF TEEN PUNCHG CLASSMATE DRAWS ATTENTN TO ANTI-GAY BULLYG

It prompted protts om parents who said the school should have had metal tectors, and lls om LGBTQ advot for the cy to addrs the bullyg of gay stunts. He said Laboy, McCree and others were throwg pencils, pen ps and balls of paper at him the day of the filed a feral lawsu agast the cy Edutn Department last month, allegg the school enabled the bullyg and that he endured “discrimatory anti-gay ephets, " as well as physil was taken to ctody followg the verdict. "I don't want him to be remembered as a kid who was bullied for beg gay and who took his own life, " Camika Shelby told NBC News on Tuday.

A lol puty was placed on admistrative leave this week for wrg a homophobic ment on a Facebook post about Nigel, whose ath has sparked a natnal nversatn about acceptance, bullyg and sexualy. 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.

12-YEAR-OLD DI BY SUICI AFTER BULLI SAY HE’D GO TO HELL FOR BEG GAY

“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. The mother of a 9-year-old boy said bullyg he endured after g out as gay led him to kill himself last Myl was a fourth-gra stunt at the Joe Shoemaker Elementary School Denver.

His mother, Leia Pierce, told The Denver Post that he me out as gay this summer and began wearg fake fgernails on Aug.

The manner of ath, acrdg to the report, was suici and did not volve a, who told both the Denver Post and NBC's lol Denver affiliate that her son was bullied for beg gay, took to Facebook to exprs her pa and plead for an end to bullyg. It is named after her son, Tyler, who was gay and killed himself 2010 after endurg onle bullyg.

TENNSEE BOY DI BY SUICI AFTER HE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG GAY

”In addn to fai and schools, Clementi said relig anizatns n also play helpg put an end to bullyg — pecially anti-gay bullyg. A 12-year-old boy Tennsee has died by suici after he was bullied by classmat for beg gay, Nashville’s ABC affiliate WKRN Frchley, a seventh-grar at Cass Middle School Wartrace, TN took his own life on November 28. Eli’s parents believe their son was driven to m suici by his classmat, who allegedly teased him that he would go to hell for beg gay.

PARENTS OF GAY TEEN WHO DIED BY SUICI SUE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR IGNORG HIS PLEAS FOR HELP

“He was told bee he didn’t necsarily have a relign and that he said he was gay that he was gog to go to Hell.

A viral vio of a gay teen punchg a classmate who had allegedly been harassg him unrsr “a systemic failure” to addrs the prevalence of anti-LGBTQ bullyg schools, acrdg to some experts and advot. A physil altertn between Jordan Steffy, a junr at LaPorte High School Indiana, and a classmate llg him anti-gay slurs. @maylarose42The vio shows gay stunt Jordan Steffy, a junr at LaPorte High School Indiana, yellg at a classmate who n be seen slowly walkg toward him.