Youths, adults sign on to wear purple, support gay teens
Updated 14h 33m ago
By Marisol Bello, USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-10-19-gay-teens-purple_N.htm (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-10-19-gay-teens-purple_N.htm)
When Tammy Aaberg wears her purple T-shirt that says "End the Hate" on Wednesday, she'll be thinking of her son Justin. He killed himself after he was bullied at school for being gay.
"We are losing too many kids. This has been kept silent for too long," says Aaberg, 36, of Fridley, Minn., a Twin Cities suburb.
She is joining hundreds of thousands of young people across the USA who will be wearing purple Wednesday to call attention to the deaths of six youths who committed suicide after they were bullied or harassed because they were gay or were thought to be gay.
Not just the states are doing this...
The local glbt meeting tonight will be focused on discrimination and it's darkest results, and we're all encouraged to show up in purple.
They're apparently doing the same in Reykjavík too.