9-Year-Old Boy Who Came Out as Gay Died by Suici

Contents:

• PARENTS OF GAY TEEN WHO DIED BY SUICI SUE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR IGNORG HIS PLEAS FOR HELP
• NEARLY A THIRD OF YOUNG GAY PEOPLE HAVE ATTEMPTED SUICI, STUDY FDS
• COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG
• TYLER CLEMENTI: RUTGERS STUNT SUICI CS OUTRAGE, STIRS GAY RIGHTS GROUPS

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

Suici is the send leadg e of ath among young people aged 10 to 24 (Hegaard, Curt, & Warner, 2018) — and lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng (LGBTQ) youth are at signifintly creased risk.

Among gay or lbian youth, 37% serly nsired suici and 19% attempted. Journal of Gay & Lbian Mental Health, 21(3), 194–202.

Associatn of sexual orientatn acceptance wh rced suici attempts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng youth. Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr youth and fay acceptance. (2003) Prejudice, social strs, and mental health lbian, gay, bisexual populatns: Conceptual issu and rearch evince.

NEARLY A THIRD OF YOUNG GAY PEOPLE HAVE ATTEMPTED SUICI, STUDY FDS

Fay rejectn as a predictor of negative health out whe and Lato lbian, gay, and bisexual young adults.

High school gay–straight allianc (GSAs) and young adult well-beg: An examatn of GSA prence, participatn, and perceived effectivens. 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. Attorneys for the fay of Nigel Shelby said school staff vlated Tle VI, which prohibs tentnal discrimatn on the basis of race, lor and natnal orig, and Tle IX, which prohibs public schools om ignorg harassment based on genr attorneys, civil rights lawyers Benjam Cmp and Jasme Rand, said Shelby, 15, who was gay, had repeatedly reported beg bullied at school and on social media, but was told by Huntsville High School's then-hman prcipal Jo Stafford that beg gay was a prcipal "did not offer any assistance or take any rponsibily to make sure that this child was protected and nurtured and loved, " Cmp said.

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

"Consistent wh the district’s Core Valu, HHS [Huntsville High School] has a strong Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) place to provi support to LGBTQ+ stunts, and the district has partnered wh GLSEN and the Anti-Defamatn League to support s schools and stunts, " the statement Tuday, Rand said: "To make a statement and to enforce policy are two different thgs. "Lbian, gay and bisexual youth are almost five tim more likely to have attempted suici as pared to heterosexual youth, acrdg to the Trevor Project, which provis crisis terventn servic to LGBTQ youth.

Suici rat among young people have been on the rise recent years, acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, but gay and bisexual youths are almost five tim as likely to have attempted suici as their straight, spe advanc the fight for LGBTQ equaly, a new report fds that young gay people today are even more likely to have attempted suici than prev generatns.

Rearchers at the Williams Instute, a sexual orientatn and genr inty thk tank at UCLA School of Law, found that 30 percent of lbian, gay and bisexual rponnts ag 18 to 25 reported at least one suici attempt, pared to 24 percent of those 34-41 and 21 percent of those study, published last month the journal PLOS One, also revealed that the young adults are experiencg higher levels of victimizatn, psychologil distrs and ternalized homophobia than olr generatns. "Meyer and his lleagu surveyed 1, 518 rponnts who intified as lbian, gay or bisexual (trans people were clud a separate study).

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

" Meyer said that before he examed terviews acpanyg the survey, he expected to hear people their teens and 20s prent "a different way of beg gay. ""But one of the first narrativ I listened to was om an 18-year-old Lato om San Francis, and his narrative was the same as we've heard for generatns — homophobia, excln, shame.

Jt bee we're seeg change don't mean every gay kid's parents are acceptg or that their iends are embracg them. 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.