Gay Taunts Lead To 14-Year Old’s Suicide
Homophobic Bullying Kills
This is terrible:
A girl of 14 committed suicide because she was taunted by bullies who called her a lesbian and laughed at her dress sense.Belinda Allen hanged herself from a tree using a scarf outside a social club after enduring more than a year of taunts.
One of Allen’s shocked friends knew about the bullying, but thought the girl took it in stride: “I didn’t know how badly she had taken it. On the outside she was happy and bubbly.”
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that breaks my heart. so sad.
it seems like more LGBT people dies from bullying than any disease..
thats fuked up and the rest of the world don’t give a sh!t. those bullies should be locked up for murder. there’re no different.
wish her friend (if she really was) did something about it..
@ dech:
Assuming that the young lady was actually a lesbian…
The same sort of thing happen to me, but rather than suicide I became an extreme introvert all through middle and high school. It wasn’t until college that I came out of my shell. Even after all my success, I still deal with anxiety on a daily basis. Bullying is a very serous problem that should be dealt with. They could of done something. One year is too long for no adult to notice.
It’s still homophobic bullying whether the girl was a lesbian or not.
It never really stops, whether it’s from the outside or just the voices in our heads. It’s amazing any of us actually grow up, let alone become reasonably well adjusted and productive.
I think a little bit of me died just from reading about her.
14! damnit she’s my sister’s age who goes through the same thing just because she’s overweight.
My first suicide attempt because of the same thing was when I was 12. I was called a sissy in the 1st grade and graduated to faggot in the 3rd and was called a faggot until I graduated high school. (Well, in college, too, but by then, I was in a “So what!” phase.)
Until we can all figure out how to stop this kinda shit, we can’t say things have really changed for us all that much. Even if she wasn’t a lesbian, we have to instill it in everyone’s mind that it isn’t bad to be GBLT. Until we can do that, things haven’t really changed, just gone underground.
It’s tough dealing with being called a fag or lesbian. I’m 36 and just a few days ago I was called fag and unfortunately it had more precision then any other time - came from a guy who was extremely nice to me and even suggested I go to the one and only gay bar in town. Unfortunately people tend to not only use the word when other people are around but also use it to cover up their own queerness.
it’s horrible either way..bullying is is sign a fear too…
if anybody reading this feels like that, talk to somebody who can not only help you deal with it, but stop the abuse, there is NOTHING to be ashamed of, absolutely nothing. you are special, and because you are gay or lesbian, you understand abuse, the meaning of it, and the things it can do to a person, that makes you a better person then those people EVER will be. email me at vardonsandoval61@aol.com…if anybody wants to talk.