Tyler Clementi was an LGBTQ freshman at Rutgers University. After being harassed for his sexuality, Clementi tragically ended his life Sept. 22, 2010. After his death, Clementi’s parents founded the Tyler Clementi Foundation to combat bullying and harassment and promote safe and inclusive environments for LGBTQ youth. In April, Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) and Sens….
An appeals court in New Jersey Friday threw out the convictions against Dharun Ravi, whose roommate, Tyler Clementi, killed himself after he was captured on a webcam kissing another man. The New York Times reported that the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey in Newark overturned a lower court’s conviction of the…
With just over three months to go before the five-year anniversary of ex-Rutgers student Tyler Clementi’s death by suicide, parents Joseph and Jane Clementi spoke to CBS Sunday Morning’s Erin Moriarty about the emotional chasm that continues to engulf them both as well as their latest initiative from the Tyler Clementi Foundation: “Day One.” According…
LOS ANGELES and CHICAGO — With apologies to the Proclaimers, who sang “I would walk 500 miles” in their hit song “I’m Gonna Be,” Elliot London and Ronnie Kroell are doubling down for an essential cause. They will be walking nearly 1,000 miles – 921 miles to be exact – from Chicago to New York over 37 days to raise awareness for increased bullying…
(CNN) – The family of a Rutgers University freshman who committed suicide after his roommate secretly used a webcam to stream his sexual encounter has decided not to sue the university or the man who set up the camera. Joseph and Jane Clementi had filed court documents reserving the right to sue after their son…
The parents of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers University student who committed suicide in 2010 after his roommate recorded an encounter between Tyler and another man and published it on the Internet, have left their church in Ridgewood, N.J. due to its anti-gay views. According to The New York Times, Joe and Jane Clementi decided to…
(CNN) — The former Rutgers University student convicted of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate was released from jail Tuesday after serving his sentence, a jail official said. Dharun Ravi, 20, was found guilty in May of invasion of privacy, witness tampering, hindering apprehension and bias intimidation. He left the Middlesex County Jail in…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — The lawyer for Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student found guilty of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate, has filed a notice of appeal, a court official said. Ravi’s roommate, 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, killed himself by jumping off New York’s George Washington Bridge into the Hudson…
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (CNN) – Prosecutors will appeal a 30-day jail sentence handed down last week against Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student convicted of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate, who then killed himself by jumping off New York’s George Washington Bridge. Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan said Ravi’s crimes warranted “more…
