Tag: Gay bashing
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Black Friday: Ferguson or Modern Warfare?
Robert Cohen of St Louis Post Despatch posted this image of Ferguson last night, it looks like a dystopian computer game, the sort that will be flying off the shelves in parts of the western world in tomorrow’s ‘Black Friday’ – but not in places like this. Sadly it’s real, it’s not a cut-scene, and…
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It Gets Better – video from me
Talking about gay bullying and my experience of bullying and suicide as part of the It Gets Better project by Dan Savage (but sadly he’s exceeded the favourites for the channel!). It’s a great idea in response the sad and ever-present suicides of gay teens- something like 3 times the UK average here, depressingly… and…
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Bullied – a documentary film about a bullied kid fighting back
This documentary looks really interesting, about Jamie Nabozny who after 4 years sued his school and won for not protecting him from anti-gay physical and mental abuse. Suicide amongst gay teens is many times the non-gay average; and the fact that schools tend to do very little about homophobic bullying is part of that. Good…