Results for "bullying"
High School Bully Has A Secret.
Like too many gay kids in high school, Justin Taylor was bullied. I was a very closeted, afraid, little gay kid in high school. 15, 16 years old. Really afraid of people, really a...
“You’re Going To Hell,” FL State Legislator Tells Gay Teen.
When Christopher Vasquez was a teenager, he and a group of other teens visited the Florida capitol to lobby for the Dignity for All Students Act, an anti-bullying bill. The visit TRANSCRIPT: My name is Christopher Vasquez, and I am from Orlando, Florida. Ten years ago, this year actually, I started working with Equality Florida, the largest LGBT organizati...
I’m From Raymond, MN.
In light of the recent tragic suicides as a result of gay teens being bullied, it has brought back a lot of memories of the struggles and pain that I went through when people foun...
I’m From Gorleston, Suffolk, UK.
1994. The beginning of this journey, one of which no one could have determined. One of which seems all so strange to one family. One of which one wished had happened earlier. 1998...
Student Causes Change In School After Being Forced Out And Bullied – Video Story.
Charles Johnson came out to one of his best friends. He didn’t expect what happened afterwards. One of my friends was Southern Baptist. She ended up causing a lot of trouble fo...
I’m From Marshfield, MO.
I am a graduate of Marshfield High School in Missouri. My family has deep pre-Civil War roots in the Marshfield area to which I moved to from Pleasant Hope in 1978 beginning in th...
I’m From Cedar City, UT.
I’ve known I was gay since I was 7 years old when I could look at guys and think they were cute. I think I could have been bisexual, but girls have scared me ever since being ra...
Laverne Cox: From Bullying and Transphobia to Acceptance and Love.
I’m from Mobile, AL. Laverne Cox is an actress and a transgender woman whose story takes us from her childhood experiences of being bullied, to the transphobia she experiYou can find out more about Laverne at her website, find her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter. TRANSCRIPT: My name is Laverne Cox and I’m from Mobile, Alabama. Until re...
I’m From Hawaii – Video Story
After having suicidal thoughts from being bullied and taunted in school, NovaLei went home to his grandfather, who offered advice that NovaLei still remembers today. “If you nev...
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