Mother blam Red Ln school officials, bulli for gay stunt's ath

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• PARENTS OF GAY TEEN WHO DIED BY SUICI SUE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR IGNORG HIS PLEAS FOR HELP
• MOTHER BLAM RED LN SCHOOL OFFICIALS, BULLI FOR GAY STUNT'S ATH
• MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
• TYLER CLEMENTI, STUNT OUTED AS GAY ON TER, JUMPS TO HIS ATH
• GAY STUNT'S DEATH HIGHLIGHTS TROUBLG TREND
• COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG
• 12-YEAR-OLD BOY DI BY SUICI AFTER CLASSMAT ALLEGEDLY BULLIED HIM, SAID HE’D GO TO HELL BEE HE WAS GAY
• A 12-YEAR-OLD NEW JERSEY BOY WAS BULLIED FOR BEG GAY, LAWSU SAYS. HE DIED BY SUICI.
• FIFTH GAY TEEN SUICI THREE WEEKS SPARKS DEBATE
• VIRAL VIO OF TEEN PUNCHG CLASSMATE DRAWS ATTENTN TO ANTI-GAY BULLYG

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

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. "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.

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. Six teenagers relentlsly bullied a gay stunt to suici as Red Ln Area school admistrators stood by and did nothg, the stunt’s mother alleg a feral lawsu agast the district.

Zachary began intifyg as gay eighth gra, acrdg to the lawsu. The su alleg that the stunts named as fendants hurled anti-gay slurs and other sults at him. “We didn’t choose to be gay; we didn’t choose to be trans, ” he said.

MOTHER BLAM RED LN SCHOOL OFFICIALS, BULLI FOR GAY STUNT'S ATH

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.

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

(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.

"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.

TYLER CLEMENTI, STUNT OUTED AS GAY ON TER, JUMPS TO HIS ATH

"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. Matthew Shepard was tortured and murred 1998 and was targeted for beg gay, acrdg to wns.

GAY STUNT'S DEATH HIGHLIGHTS TROUBLG TREND

"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.

Gay and lbian groups on the mp held vigils last Wednday, rryg posters sayg "We're here, we're queer" than 15, 000 people subscribed to a Facebook group honourg a statement, his fay said that "Tyler was a fe young man, and a distguished mician. In the past month, at least four gay teens have been driven to take their own liv, CBS News Corrponnt Byron Pts reports. "A msage that appears to be om Clementi was sent out on a gay muny msage board two dater later.

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

"I was very sad by the story, " Joe Kosciw, senr director of rearch for the New York-based Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network. "Kosciw said Clementi's ath highlights a troublg trend: cyber bullyg and gay bashg leadg to tragic Texas, 13-year-old Asher Brown shot himself the head after he was reportedly bullied.

Acrdg to a recent survey by Kosciw's group on gay bullyg, ne out of 10 gay, lbian and bisexual stunts are bullied school, and they are four tim more likely than heterosexuals to attempt suici.

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

This is one of the first high schools the untry opened primarily for gay, lbian and transgenr stunts.

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

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. 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.

FIFTH GAY TEEN SUICI THREE WEEKS SPARKS DEBATE

He me out as gay after his arrt. 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.

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.

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

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. “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 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.