Dharun Ravi will accept his jail sentence despite previous reports that he and his legal team would seek an appeal in last Monday’s court ruling. The former Rutgers student was sentenced to a 30-day jail term including 3 years’ probation after being found guilty of contributing to his gay roommate’s suicide. Ravi, 20, issued the…
Northwest Iowa is mourning the death of a 14-year-old gay Iowa teen who took his own life Monday following a series of bullying, death threats, and an online hate group where he lay subject to repeated harassment. Kenneth Weishuhn, Jr. of South O’Brien High School came out as gay earlier this year. The teen began…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — The students featured in a video about being gay at Brigham Young University are not in obvious violation of the honor code, according to Carri Jenkins, an assistant to the president of BYU. Jenkins went on to say that for the video alone, the students would not be…
PHOENIX – An Arizona high school student, who was bullied, followed home and threatened for being gay, has become the youngest advocate on loan in the Phoenix Mayor’s Office. Caleb Laieski, 17, will work as a youth and diversity liaison, to raise awareness about bullying and diversity and serve as a point of contact for…
The family of an openly gay teen in Carthage, Tenn. says their son committed suicide as a direct result from the bullying he faced at school. Phillip Parker, 14, an 8th grader at Gordonsville High School, was described as a good student with a good heart. “A sweet kind person like Phillip took it out…
Amherst investigators announced Tuesday the death of Jamey Rodemeyer will not be ruled a crime in wake of the teen’s controversial death attributed to gay bullying. Rodemeyer’s cell phone and computer were analyzed at a forensic lab to determine whether he had received harassing or bullying comments prior to the teen’s suicide on Sept. 18….
