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Title: Homophobia Kills
Post by: Shana A on October 01, 2010, 09:17:46 AM
Homophobia Kills
Filed by: Joe Mirabella
September 30, 2010 4:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2010/09/homophobia_kills.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2010/09/homophobia_kills.php)

Homophobia kills. It kills. I don't know how else to say it. It kills. It kills. Homophobia kills.

Hate is killing young men and woman every day. Just this month alone the media reported 4 suicides because of anti-gay bullying.

Truth Wins Out reported:

        * Seth Walsh, the Bakersfield, CA 13-year-old who hanged himself from a tree in his back yard after years of being bullied, died Tuesday afternoon after nine days on life support. Police investigators interviewed some of the young people who taunted Seth the day he hanged himself. "Several of the kids that we talked to broke down into tears," Police Chief Jeff Kermode said. "They had never expected an outcome such as this."