Tag: Social Issues
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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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Protest the pope in London
This is the protest against the pope I went on yesterday – I turned up thinking I might be the only one, or maybe 80-100 people would be there. When I arrived there was maybe 1,000-1,500 there, by the time the march went forward, delayed by over an hour it was more like 10-12,000. Heartening…
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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…
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Born Gay, as gay as your friend blows…
(When did you choose to be straight?)