19-year-old gay college student commits suicide

[WillParkinson]

19-year-old gay college student commits suicide

From Campus Pride:

(Providence, RI) Campus Pride, the nation’s leading non-profit organization working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and ally college and university students, offers its condolences and support to the family of Raymond Chase who reportedly hung himself in his residence hall room this past Wednesday, September 29, 2010 on the campus of Johnson & Wales in Providence, RI.

“The loss of Raymond this week is the second college LGBT-related suicide in a week and the fifth teenage LGBT suicide in three weeks. The suicide of this openly gay young man is for reasons currently unknown; however, the recent pattern of LGBT youth suicides is cause for grave concern,” said Shane Windmeyer, executive director and founder of Campus Pride. “Campus Pride demands national action be taken to address youth bullying, harassment and the need for safety and inclusion for LGBT youth at colleges and universities across the country. We must not let these tragic deaths go unnoticed. Together we must act decisively to curb anti-LGBT bias incidents, harassment and acts of violence.”

http://www.365gay.com/news/19-year-old-gay-college-student-commits-suicide/

[dsc]

1. It has gotten so bad I am actually glad it is one I have already heard of

I feared this was our sixth.

[WillParkinson]

2. Sadly it's news to me...

Though I hope it never becomes the point where I'm 'used to it'.

[dsc]

5. I didn't mean that

it is just I am glad it wasn't yet another one.

[WillParkinson]

7. Oh, no, I understand...

I'm glad, too, believe me.

[msongs]

3. religion claims yet another victim nt

[timtom]

4. I saw nothing in the article to substantiate your bigoted claim.

Merely a knee-jerk assumption on your part, which denigrates the tragedy of this situation and this growing trend.

[Occulus]

8. Bigotry toward GLBTs has its roots in Christianity.

Actually, it's in all three of the Abrahamic faiths, but Christianity has historically been the deepest well from which it springs.

The statement was accurate, so far as it went.

[timtom]

9. Actually, that poster made a leap of faith

in positing something for which there is only a strong possibility. As the poster below has expressed, some religious, some not.'

Not accurate.

[Billy Burnett]

6. Bigotry. Some religious, some not.

My church is fully supportive of GLBTs. Hate to see it tossed onto the pile too.

[mitchtv]

12. sorry but those churches you speak of are an

insignificant minority, Most are venomous. They allowed the wingnuts to assume the pulpit and run the show

[Billy Burnett]

13. My church is packed with people fed up with the type you speak of, who've fled their churchs.

Truly compassionate thinking people who've found in our church an alternative to the hate, fear and division.

Not nice to be relegated to the "insignificant" column. I disagree.


All the best.

[applegrove]

10. Yes I blame the religious right for these suicides. They have been spearheading

the hatred of gays for 30 years while society was becoming more accepting of the communities.

[timtom]

11. "Religious right" is NOT the same as "religion."