Bullied, The Documentary About Jamie Nabozny Getting Pissed On By Classmates
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.)
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.
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@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.
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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.