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Title: LGBT students: Safer this year?
Post by: SandraJane on August 28, 2011, 03:22:40 PM
Keen News Service

LGBT students: Safer this year?
By Dana Rudolph on August 24, 2011

http://www.keennewsservice.com/2011/08/24/lgbt-students-safer-this-year/ (http://www.keennewsservice.com/2011/08/24/lgbt-students-safer-this-year/)

Anti-LGBT bullying took the national stage last fall after the highly publicized suicides of several teens bullied for being gay or perceived to be. The relentless bullying, many believe, may have been one of the contributing factors in their decisions to attempt suicide, and their deaths led to an surge of anti-bullying awareness campaigns and media coverage.