New Yotk Times
By Jesse McKinley
Published: October 3, 2010
Many gay teens are kiling themelves because of bulling from other teens. Their classmates torture them and because of the stress, they take their own lives. A young teen Seth Walsh hang himself because his classmates made him of him and taunted him everyday. After being on life support for a week, he died at the age pf thirteen. A student at Rutgers University jumped off the George Washington Bridge because he saw a video of himself and another man on the internet. Two weeks later afer Tyler Clementi killed himelf, another teen Astor Brown shot after being harrassed by his classmates. His parents blamed the police department after complaining and nothing was done. The exeutive director of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network speaks how the pressure can be intense if you are in a small community. A blogger name Dan Savage who is a sex columnist, blames teachers and administration for the problem of gay teens being harrassed by their peers.
This is serious because people have the right to their own sexual prefernce. A man or a woman can be with whom ever they want. It i no ones business and I believe that these teen who taunt them should be replemanded. It is also serious because there are many people in our school who are bisexual and gay, if these people get teased then someone would have to be done about it. The headline of the story wa interesting since there has always been trouble socially and politically with gay people. The lead of the article was alright it wasn't nothing too catchy.
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