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

Contents:

• MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
• ALABAMA NTH-GRAR DI BY SUICI AFTER HE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG GAY: 'HE WAS FULL OF LIGHT'
• 12-YEAR-OLD DI BY SUICI AFTER BULLI SAY HE’D GO TO HELL FOR BEG GAY
• MOM SAID SON, 9, KILLED HIMSELF AFTER HE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG GAY
• TEEN BULLIED FOR BEG GAY: WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
• RSIAN MAN TORTURED TO ATH FOR 'BEG GAY'
• COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG
• GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG
• MOTHER OF GAY ALABAMA TEEN WHO DIED BY SUICI CLAIMS HIS SCHOOL IGNORED WARNG SIGNS
• TENNSEE BOY DI BY SUICI AFTER HE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG GAY
• A 12-YEAR-OLD NEW JERSEY BOY WAS BULLIED FOR BEG GAY, LAWSU SAYS. HE DIED BY SUICI.
• THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
• PARENTS OF GAY TEEN WHO DIED BY SUICI SUE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR IGNORG HIS PLEAS FOR HELP

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

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. 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. "He said, 'Mom I'm gay.

ALABAMA NTH-GRAR DI BY SUICI AFTER HE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG GAY: 'HE WAS FULL OF LIGHT'

"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.

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

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. "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.

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

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.

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.

TEEN BULLIED FOR BEG GAY: WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

In Wyomg, where there's a populatn of jt 500, 000, she said there are 19 Gay Straight Allianc.

An Alabama teen, who has been scribed as beg “full of light, ” tragilly took his own life after nstant homophobic bullyg. “When you have a kid that’s already prsed and gog through a lot emotnally for you to ll him nam that you shouldn’t ll them or say stuff to them — sometim has a worse effect than would on a child who’s not stgglg wh prsn, ” she said of the homophobic bullyg. "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.

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.

RSIAN MAN TORTURED TO ATH FOR 'BEG GAY'

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

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

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. ”In addn to fai and schools, Clementi said relig anizatns n also play helpg put an end to bullyg — pecially anti-gay bullyg.

GAY BULLYG, GAY BULLI AND DEALG WH GAY BASHG

29, 2010— -- It's an epimic that has seemgly touched every rner of Ameri: kids beg bullied for beg bullyg has entire high schools heartbroken, parents childls and fai torn this fall, Rutgers Universy hman Tyler Clementi jumped to his ath after he'd allegedly had an timate experience wh another man that was broadst to the mp via his roommate's September alone, ne young people -- gay or merely spected of beg gay -- took their liv after beg what would people do if they wnsed this kd of hatred takg place right ont of them? ""You're a disgtg homo!

Kupferman had a msage for those who, over two days of tapg Long Beach, wnsed our gay bullyg and did nothg to stop . Gay.

"They would take his thgs om him, sp his food, ll him 'gay, faggot', " Long said. "I didn't feel like I belonged anywhere, " said Eiano Luno, 14, who me to Alliance after he was bullied so tensely at his prev school for beg gay that he was on the verge of droppg out of school. A 23-year-old man has been tortured to ath Rsia an apparent homophobic attack, vtigators said Sunday, amid growg fears by rights groups that anti-gay sentiments are on the rise the victim's battered and naked body was found the urtyard of an apartment buildg the southern cy of Volgograd on Friday morng, said a spokwoman for regnal young man had suffered numero juri, cludg to the genalia, and had been sexually asslted wh several beer bottl.

MOTHER OF GAY ALABAMA TEEN WHO DIED BY SUICI CLAIMS HIS SCHOOL IGNORED WARNG SIGNS

"He was raped wh beer bottl and had his skull smashed wh a stone, " Natalia Kunskaya, a spokwoman for the Volgograd regn branch of the Invtigative Commtee, told nfirmed the attack was believed to have been a hate crime, a rare admissn om Rsian law enforcement agenci on the sensive issue of homophobia the men aged 22 and 27 have been taed nnectn wh the attack, the Mosw-based Invtigative Commtee said a statement on Saturday. Regnal vtigator Andrei Gapchenko told Echo of Mosw rad on Saturday that two men started beatg the victim after he told them he was gay. Rsia crimalised homosexualy 1993 and officially removed om the list of psychiatric disorrs homophobia remas wispread and socially acceptable, and almost no public figur have e out as gay.

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

Several Rsian regns have outraged rights mpaigners by approvg lol laws banng "gay propaganda" among mors, legislatn which is now beg discsed at the feral parliament. Print Vladimir Put, who pris himself on his macho image, has repeatedly nied that Rsia was vlatg gay rights. But he recently warned that Rsia uld change agreements for the adoptn of Rsian children wh Wtern untri that are legalisg gay marriage, such as France.

Nikolai Alexeyev, the head of Gay Rsia, a group workg to raise the profile of gay rights, exprsed ncern that the Kreml's official rhetoric and recent legislative iativ uld be fuellg tolerance.

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

"Homophobic hysteria is beg creasgly promoted Rsia, " he told said attacks agast homosexuals are wispread the untry but are almost never vtigated as hate crim.

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.

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

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.

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

Gay bullyg and gay bashg are actns that hurt all. A rash of gay suicis 2011 prov how adly gay bullyg n be. Gay bullyg statistics dite that gay teens are two-to-three tim more likely to m suici than other youths and about 30% of all suicis have been lked to a genr inty crisis.

None of the aths had to occur, but they did bee each of the people was sent the msage that was better to be ad than to be gay. What is Gay Bullyg, Gay Bashg? Gay bullyg and gay bashg is bullyg or treatg one poorly bee they are gay (fn of gay) or bee they are thought to be gay.