Narrated by Jane Lynch, the perfectly timed documentary Bullied premiered Tuesday in Washington D.C. and will be made available for free to schools. It tells the story of Wisconsin’s Jamie Nabozny, whose middle and high school years were spent getting peed on, kicked, and verbally abused by classmates because he’s gay. Multiple suicide attempts and running away from home preceded a 1990s lawsuit that resulted in the first court ruling holding a school accountable for not preventing a student’s victimization. (Represented by Lambda Legal, Nabozny eventually settled for around $1 million.)
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Bullied, The Documentary About Jamie Nabozny Getting Pissed On By Classmates
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Ian
We as a community need to keep pressing for this bullying and harrassment issue to be front and center before our ADD national media completely forgets and have moved on to something else and not want to cover this anymore (God forbid they actually STAY on a story from beginning to end), at least not until the next gay teen or child is hurt or worse.
Qjersey
At my college we are eagerly waiting for a copy of the film to arrive so we can plan a big event and screening
declanto
Bullying is a serious and ongoing problem that can only be countered by education and legal accountability. let’s keep it front and center. This documentary may be the catalyst that overcomes the public inertia.
Norma
We watched this today at our GSA meeting, it was SO good. I definitely recommend it. c:
J. Doe
I am all for the documentary and nobody should every be bullied, I just want to make that very clear. Its just too bad that Mr. Nabozny and the documentary don’t have their facts straight. Why do you keep changing your story Mr. Nabozny? Those of us who grew up and went to school with you know the truth. If you are really out to do good why don’t you tell the whole story? It is a shame that you have to exaggerate so much to get your point across. The gay and lesbian community and everyone else who put their name on this should have done their research before the movie came out – they will be really embarrased if anyone of us steps forward and tells the real story and proves the facts that were not brought up in the court case.I guess I will have to say “in my opinion” so Mr. Nabozny doesn’t try to get a million out of me also, but lets face it, Wausau insurance settled for a million dollars rather then being accused of not supporting gays and lesbians and being bashed in the media – it was simply a case of cutting their losses rather then losing several million in premiums from the gay and lesbian community
What a shame that the only way to get your point across is to lie and embellish your story.
Phillip Peters
Yeah right, “John Doe”. I’m sure you stood up for the kid and brought him a doughnut every morning.
If any of this ‘evidence’ existed, it would have come out long ago.
A. A
@J. Doe: You know what? You’re an ass
Mike Welch
@J. Doe: I live in Wisconsin and I’ve met Jamie Nabozny. At least he stood up in public to state his case. If you had such damaging evidence, why didn’t YOU bring that up in court, rather than sniping with innuendo after the fact.
Bo Shafer
@J. Doe: J. Doe-
My Partner is Jamie Nabozny. I was there first hand when the individuals making the documentary were doing their research. They went through atleast 20 boxes of documentation from the case and interviewed many people, on both sides of the story, So the fact that you can say “The gay and lesbian community and everyone else who put their name on this should have done their research before the movie came out – they will be really embarrased if anyone of us steps forward and tells the real story and proves the facts that were not brought up in the court case.” is upsetting because YOU don’t have YOUR facts straight! The SPLC would not have produced a documentary of this caliber and something that would reach millions of people, if they didn’t have their facts straight. Please feel free to share your opinion of exactly what occured.
Nic
The documentary is absolutely inspiring 🙂
SandraC
What a great movie – I am thankful I was able to hear Mr. Nabozny speak. I found his honesty refreshing and his overall point of all students deserve safe schools to reach out to many – not just the LGBT community. He talked about the commonalities among many groups and being able to bridge the differences to get to the common goals. Excellent point.
As a parent of a transgendered male, he helped bridge me to move towards helping to build those bridges! I applaud all who are part of the solution of making schools safe.