Domestic Disturbances: Dude, You’ve Got Problems

Early this month, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, an 11-year-old boy from Springfield, Mass., hanged himself after months of incessantly being hounded by his classmates for being “gay.” (He was not; but did, apparently, like to do well in school.)
In March, 2007, 17-year-old Eric Mohat shot himself in the head, after a long-term tormentor told him in class, “Why don’t you go home and shoot yourself; no one will miss you.” Eric liked theater, played the piano and wore bright clothing, a lawyer for his family told ABC news, and so had long been subject to taunts of “gay,” “fag,” “queer” and “homo.”
Teachers and school administrators, the Mohats’ lawsuit now asserts, did nothing.
We should do something to get this insanity under control. See Domestic Disturbances: Dude, You’ve Got Problems
To the bully, calling a boy “gay” rarely refers to sexuality, Judith Warner writes. * Tags = gay men gay news lesbian news transgender bisexual

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Lawsuit: Anti-gay bullying led to son’s death

(Mentor, Ohio) The parents of an Ohio High School student say their son would be alive today if the school had prevented bullies from tormenting him.

In a federal lawsuit the parents of Eric Mohat allege that he regularly was called ‘gay,’ ‘fag,’ ‘queer’ and ‘homo’ among other names and that …