Trigger warning: Suicide, bullying, sexual assault
1. This is very triggering about bullying and suicide. Proceed with caution.
2. This is from Rolling Stone’s Valentine’s Day issue.
3. If you are a straight person in the Glee fandom, oh god, do I want you to read every word of this.
This is horrifying, and that’s exactly why you need to read it.
I am so glad that I live in a place that’s tolerant of LGBTQ youth.
How could anyone do this to someone else? How do they live with themselves?
This is sickening
I don’t know if I’ve ever felt more heartbroken after reading an article like this. I’m just crying and pissed off that this is happening and I feel incredibly useless.
I don’t know if any of them follow my tumblr, but the crowd of kids I hung out with in high school (nearly 10 years ago now) were all predominantly gay, and out. Even being in San Antonio, TX I don’t think I remember instances when they were bullied to this extreme, and if they were, I feel sick with myself that I may not have noticed it. Please please please always be vocal about supporting and defending ANYONE that’s being bullied for ANY reason.
I can’t stop crying about this.
How can anyone rationalize away the idea that something is wrong when kids are being bullied for something that they can’t help and they’re taking their lives.
How can people be so evil to teach their children that it’s okay to hurt other people because they’re possibly not straight and then have the gall to blame it on their sexuality.
Screw this.
I will curbstop any ignorant little shit that opens their mouth to say shit like that in front of me. I don’t care who they are, bullying for any circumstances is wrong and religion is no excuse at all and the government needs to stop standing by and watching these little kids die. They’re fucking babies and all they hear is that they’re not good enough and that they deserve to die.
Here’s a newsflash you heterosexist pigs: YOU raised your children to be horrible little fuckers. YOU are responsible for the way that children are treated in what’s supposed to be a safe space. So don’t blame their perceived sexuality for this at all because it’s not their fault for existing and wating to be loved. It’s YOUR fault for raised awful little fuckers that think it’s okay to torture someone for not matching up to the ideals that YOU taught them. They learned it from YOU. And YOU need to get your shit straight.
I’m was in tears by the end of this article, and that is a big deal for me.
The fact that this is happening NOW, that people think this is appropriate, that people can be so FUCKING blind to how their actions are causing so many CHILDREN to feel—and not just the “gay kids,” but every child or adult in those buildings who has ever felt like an outcast or been bullied.
You are messing with these people’s MINDS. This is more than just sexuality or fucking “freedom of speech”—this is the psychological HEALTH of children who are so vulnerable already, at such a critical point in their lives.
And to think, Michele Bachmann was popular enough to be a serious candidate for the republican nomination for president.
In 2012.
I feel nauseous and seriously need to go read something happier now and not think about this until I’m not in danger of throwing up because of it.
