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Thursday, June 19
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Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD-TV , Grand Rapids Press WAYLAND, Mich. -- Two high-school girls who beat up another girl, reportedly because she advocated for LGBT rights in the school, will face assault charges in juvenile court, Grand Rapids Press reports. But they won't face enhanced penalties for what police say was a bias-motivated crime because Michigan's hate crimes law doesn't include sexual orientation. As Wayland Union High School students cleaned out their lockers after the last day of school on Tuesday June 10, a fight between three freshmen girls erupted while another...
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Wednesday, June 11
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Source: Fort Meyers News-Press , WINK-TV , PrideSource.com Tallahassee, Fla. -- Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday signed the "Jeffrey Johnston Stand Up For All Students Act" into law. Jeffrey Johnston was 15 in June 2005, just having finished his ninth-grade year at Ida S. Baker High in Cape Coral, when he killed himself. He would have graduated with his classmates who just received their diplomas June 1 at Harborside Event Center. Jeff's mother, Debbie, led the crusade for Jeff's law. "I worried about kidnappers, and murderers, and drugs, and alcohol, and gangs and all those...
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Wednesday, May 14
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Source: WJLA-TV , Advocate , GLSEN press release Maryland's governor signed into law yesterday a comprehensive anti-bullying bill that protects all students from bullying and harassment, becoming only the seventh state to enumerate categories of protection that include sexual orientation and gender identity. Greg Atkin endured frequent bullying throughout elementary and middle school. "It hurts," he told WJLA. "It can hurt for a few minutes if you're hurt physically, but being hurt emotionally can last a lifetime." He said he's is thrilled by the new law signed in...
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Thursday, May 01
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Source: Miami Herald , Cape Coral News-Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- For the last several years, proponents of anti-bullying legislation have fought for a state law that would prohibit harassment of students. Every year, the bills failed. Qnews update: Governor signs tough new Florida anti-bullying law (10-June-08) But on Wednesday, supporters were cheering after the Jeffrey Johnston Stand Up for All Students Act unanimously passed the Florida Senate; it previously got unanimous support in the House of Representatives. Next stop: Gov. Charlie Crist, who told reporters he would probably sign it into...
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Wednesday, April 30
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Source: Boston Globe , PhysOrg.com Saying that being bullied can leave a mark on a child for life, state public health officials today released a comprehensive guide to prevent bullying in the state's schools. "Our kids deserve to grow up in an environment that is free from harassment and violence," Department of Public Health Commissioner Jon Auerbach said in a statement. "Bullying is not an inevitable part of growing up and we need to do more to stop it." In 2005, nearly one in four Massachusetts middle or high school students surveyed reported being bullied, health officials...
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Wednesday, April 30
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Source: Federal Way Mirror Hutch v. Mount Si Federal Way, Wash. -- Sometimes silence speaks quite loudly. Students at Federal Way High School, as well as more than 200 high schools throughout the state, participated in the National Day of Silence event on April 25. Both gay and straight students banded together to raise awareness of the bullying and harassment that gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual students often face. They made their statement by going all day without speaking, instead signing their names to a list of supporters and passing out cards describing their cause. A student leader...
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Tuesday, April 29
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Source: Sarasota Herald Tribune , News-Press Tallahassee -- Instead of celebrating her son's 26th birthday yesterday, Pat Mulder was at the state capitol urging lawmakers to pass a bill that she hopes will help prevent another mother from suffering the pain she feels every day. "Last year I was in way too much pain to do anything like this," she said after testifying at a hearing for a tough new anti-bullying law. "The pain is still there but the motivation to make a difference is so much stronger." Mulder's son Ryan Skipper, who was openly gay, was killed last year...
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Sunday, April 27
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Source: Orlando Sentinel , News-Press , CBS News The parents of Ryan Keith Skipper, the victim of a gay-hate-crime murder in Polk County, will mark what would have been his 27th birthday Monday by joining others in support of anti-bullying legislation in Tallahassee. The Florida State Senate is one vote away from passing a bill designed to protect children who are picked on, legislative aides say. The measure's supporters say it would be the toughest law of its type in the nation. It would shift some focus to prevention, and require schools to take disciplinary action to stop physical or verbal...
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Saturday, April 26
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Source: Providence Journal , Arizona Republic , Rochester Democrat and Chronicle , Modesto Bee , Seattle Times , Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum The school's namesake peak overlooks the entrance to Mount Si High in Snoqualmie, WA. Only about 100 anti-gay demonstrators showed up at the school Friday, despite a month of promotion of the demonstration by national anti-gay groups. seaQwa photo: Robin Evans Throughout the country yesterday, tens of thousands of students at thousands of schools quietly observed a day dedicated to tolerance and respect. A few of the students who participated in yesterday's...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: MyNorthwest.com KIRO Newsradio , Qblog , Seattle Times , KING5 News SNOQUALMIE, Wash. -- Ken Hutcherson called last week for 1,000 to join him for a protest outside Mount Si High School this morning. He objects to a student-led observance called " Day of Silence " that's designed to raise awareness of anti-gay bullying. The numbers that heeded his call were far lower according to all estimates. Associated Press put the count at "about 250 protesters and counter-protesters," but it's number appears to be generous by more than two times. AP's story emphasizes...
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Wednesday, April 23
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Source: Houston Chronicle The Houston Chronicle reports that suburban school districts in the area have been fielding a flurry of calls recently from parents concerned about the anti-bullying observance, Day of Silence . The report suggests that the calls are part of an organized campaign to stop the anti-bullying protest. This week, Alton Frailey, superintendent of Katy's school district, let all teachers know that -- though no one asked his district to participate in the silent protest -- if someone did, "my answer is no." His districtwide e-mail on the subject, which confused and...
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Friday, April 18
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Source: Associated Press via CNN , E! Online King shooting Lance Bass doesn't want others to stay silent as he did. He wants the youth of America to get in sync with sexual tolerance. So he's made a public service announcement for the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN). The erstwhile 'N Syncer filmed the announcement to urge students to stop the bullying, harassment and discrimination occurring in schools. [See YouTube video of the announcement at the bottom of this post.] "Everyday, thousands of students are silenced," Bass says in the spot. "They're...
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Thursday, April 17
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Source: KESQ TV King shooting Palm Springs, Calif. -- A Coachella Valley high school is taking a stand against violence, hate, and intolerance. People banded together Wednesday night in a vigil to remember a Lawrence King, 15, who was shot and killed in February at his school. Police say the teen was targeted because he was gay. Vigil organizers say bullying and name calling often lead to suicide, fights, and even murder. Students, teachers, and valley organizations are banding together to save lives by creating unity and equality. "We must be people of one heart," David Pelletier of...
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Friday, April 04
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Source: Modesto Bee E.J. Plata's parents helped organize a group for him and other gay and lesbian teens to express their ideas and thoughts. Modesto Bee photo by Bart Ah You Modesto, Calif. -- Edward Plata admits he was as ignorant about and intolerant of homosexuality as the next guy, until his own son came out. "It was very hard for me to come to terms with it," he said. "I was raised to be macho; I'm an ex-Marine. My dad was a Marine. But I love my son." Plata and his wife worried that societal pressures would lead their son to abuse alcohol or drugs. They cited...
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Wednesday, April 02
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Source: Manchester Union Leader RINDGE, NH -- Police and Franklin Pierce University officials are investigating a number of anti-Semitic and anti-gay pamphlets in residents' mailboxes along with separate reports of graffiti swastikas in student dorms and a classroom on campus. The flyers in town mailboxes, which also contain some anti-gay language, could be related to the formation of a gay and lesbian club at Conant High School in neighboring Jaffrey, according to Rindge Police Chief Michael Sielicki. He said posters at the school promoting the group have been torn down, and he suspects the...
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Monday, March 31
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Source: The Argus King shooting ON TUESDAY, Feb. 12, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney accompanied his class to the computer lab at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard. He was supposed to complete an English project. Instead, he approached his classmate Lawrence King and shot him in the head. Brandon since has been charged with premeditated murder with a hate-crime enhancement. You see, although Brandon has offered no public explanation for his action, it appears he murdered Lawrence because Lawrence was gay. Classmates report Lawrence had taken to dressing effeminately, had revealed his sexual...
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Saturday, March 22
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Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel King shooting by William Butte "Are you looking at me, you faggot? You know what I do to faggots? I break their necks!" Melbourne Brunner heard this expression of irrationality, fear and hatred just moments before he was attacked by a stranger last month in front of a restaurant on Fort Lauderdale 's toniest street. Brunner's partner had the temerity to say "Good morning" to the would-be assailant when they made eye-contact as he passed by their table. [see Qnews summary ] But Brunner was lucky, so to speak. He survived the assault...
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Tuesday, March 18
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Source: BBC News London -- The word "gay" is now the most frequently used term of abuse in schools, says a report. How did it get to be so prevalent and why do children use homophobic insults to get at each other? Every generation of schoolchildren has them, the playground put-downs that can leave a pupil's reputation in tatters among their peers. For the current generation, "gay", "bitch" and "slag" are the most frequently used terms of abuse, according to a survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL). They are used by children of all ages...
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Thursday, March 13
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Source: Daily World (Aberdeen/Gray's Harbor) King shooting Aberdeen, Wash. -- An Aberdeen High School senior who threatened a classmate on a MySpace web site will serve seven days in jail for harassment. “You are young,” the judge told Brandon Peterman, “but you’re old enough to know better.” Peterman, 19, pleaded guilty Tuesday to harassment -- a reduced charge from felony malicious harassment -- for an online "joke" threatening to hang a 17-year-old black student. The message included profanity and a racial slur. [see Qnews summary ] District Court Judge Stephen Brown ordered the...
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Wednesday, March 12
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Source: Los Angeles Times King shooting Gizelle Studevent was a 13-year-old eighth-grader at prestigious La Jolla Country Day School when the harassment began. She returned from a basketball tournament to find an unsigned note in her suitcase: Addressed to "Senorita," it mocked the girl's skills on the court and suggested she go home to Mexico. Over more than two years, an anonymous band of bullies tormented Gizelle. Their acts grew increasingly cruel -- on the Internet, in notes and around school. Finally, she transferred. "I would go home and cry every day," said Gizelle...
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Sunday, March 09
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Source: Los Angeles Times [seaQwa editor's note: This is the most complete article yet published on the King school shooting and devastating because of its detail. I've included a larger digest than usual, but still recommend reading the complete article in the LA Times . -- REvans ] By Paul Pringle and Catherine Saillant , Los Angeles Times Staff Writers Larry King in 2006 portrait photo: Memorial website King shooting For teens living in a shelter for abused and neglected children, school can provide a daily dose of normalcy, a place to fit in, a chance to be just another kid. It didn't...
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Thursday, February 21
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Source: MTV and IndyBay.org Two days before a shotgun-wielding Steven Kazmierczak shot 21 students inside a lecture hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University, taking the lives of five people as well as his own, 15-year-old Lawrence "Larry" King was shot in the head at the E.O. Green School in Oxnard, California, reportedly for being gay. He was in the eighth grade. King shooting Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a leading gay-rights student organization, has decided to make King's murder one of the central themes of this year's annual Day of Silence...
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Friday, February 15
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Source: Ventura County Times , LA Times , LA Times , and indybay.org Yearbook photo of Larry King photo via LA Times The Ventura County Rainbow Alliance has organized a candlelight vigil tonight to honor Larry King, an eighth-grader fatally shot Tuesday inside a classroom at E. O. School in Oxnard. The Rainbow Alliance is a nonprofit group that advocates for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights. King shooting The vigil will be held at 7 p.m. today followed by a walk to the beach, starting at 8 p.m. According to reports from friends of Lawrence King speaking to the Los Angeles Times, the...
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Saturday, January 12
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Source: Equality California press release and WorldNetDaily story Right-wing opponents of a law providing broad civil rights protections to California admitted yesterday that they had failed to collect the 433,000 signatures needed for a referendum to delay implementation of the law. But they said they would now turn their attention to a signature drive for an initiative which could invalidate the law once it takes effect. The new law, which went into effect on January 1st, reinforces existing prohibitions of discrimination in publicly funded schools and activities, including discrimination based...
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Friday, January 11
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Source: Times (London) , BBC News A schoolgirl has been found hanged from a tree in an apparent suicide -- a year after a fellow pupil killed himself after being bullied. Belinda Allen, 14, was a pupil at Tanbridge House School in Horsham, West Sussex. Ben Vodden, 11, had been taunted by other pupils there and a school bus driver before he hanged himself in December 2006. A dog walker found the girl's body suspended from a tree on Tuesday. She had a scarf tied around her neck. Police and ambulance crews were called following the discovery of Belinda, but she was later pronounced dead at Worthing...
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Saturday, October 27
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Source: Sunday Herald Rikki Beadle-Blair in his play Metrosexuality A LEADING gay writer has accused Scotland of failing to adequately tackle homophobic bullying after 50 schools in and around Glasgow turned down his powerful stage play about the issue. Rikki Beadle-Blair, who wrote a film about the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York and Channel 4's 2001 comedy drama Metrosexuality, claimed teachers were "frightened" that his production, Fit, would encourage young people to confront their sexuality. Beadle-Blair, 46, thought the show would be welcomed after successfully showing it to...
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