Mother of Gay Suicide Victim: Anti-Gay Bullying Is Killing Our Kids
December 16, 2010
http://gayrights.change.org/blog/vi..._victim_anti-gay_bullying_is_killing_our_kids
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"In a video with the ACLU, Wendy Walsh faces the camera, and reads from the suicide note that Seth left. Wendy also makes it clear that we all have the responsibility to end anti-gay bullying.
"Mom, Amanda, Shane, Shawn: I love you. Thank you for having me. It's been a pleasure," Seth said. "I know this will bring you much pain, but I will hopefully be in a better place than this shithole."
Simply chilling. Wendy is coming forward with her story to show how urgent it is for schools across the country to deal with the very real epidemic of LGBT suicide and anti-gay bullying. It's why she's lent her voice in support of nationwide legislation known as the Student Non-Discrimination Act, which would put LGBT students on equal footing with their peers.
"Seth was a beautiful person. He was funny, he was artistic, he loved to read," Wendy recounts in her video. "Seth's death was an accumulation of events over years."
Wendy says that the reaction she got from local school officials was nothing more than, Oh, we'll deal with the problem next school year. But now next school year is too late, just like it's too late for students in Minnesota, Texas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and scores of other locations around the country, where LGBT students have felt so targeted, that they took their own lives.
Check out Wendy Walsh's heartfelt and heartbreaking video below. And please,
send Congress a message that the Student Non-Discrimination Act is not only critical, it's urgent."
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