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Sep 9, 2013 · Remembering Billy Lucas, the boy whose suicide inspired a movement. Three years ago today, on September 9, 2010, Billy (William) Lucas, a 15-year-old from Greensburg, Ind., was was found...
Sep 14, 2010 · September 14 2010 9:40 AM EST. Billy Lucas, a 15-year-old high school freshman from Greensburg, Ind., took his own life Thursday following a period of antigay bullying from classmates that went...
Sep 14, 2010 · Billy Lucas, a 15-year-old high school freshman from Greensburg, Ind., took his own life Thursday following a period of antigay bullying from classmates that went unaddressed. Lucas was found...
- When The Internet Was A ‘Place For Good’
- Project’S Evolution
- Power of The Message
As the It Gets Better Project has leveraged social media to spread acceptance, anti-LGBTQ organizations have also harnessed the viral nature of these platforms to sow misinformation and hate. According toa study released in July from Media Matters, a progressive nonprofit that monitors and analyzes misinformation across U.S. media outlets, right-le...
In the U.S., youth suicide rates among youth ages 10 to 24 increased 57 percent from 2007 to 2018, and was the second-leading cause of death among people aged 10-34 in 2018, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System recently found that lesbian, gay and bisexua...
The last decade has seen a rising tide of acceptance for people who are LGBTQ. In 2019, four years after the legalization of same-sex marriage across the U.S., 72 percent of Americans said homosexuality should be accepted, compared to 49 percent in 2007,according to the Pew Research Center. Data shows that when LGBTQ youth are accepted, they are fa...
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Sep 14, 2010 · by Admin • September 14, 2010. Washington - Today, Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, issued the following statement on the news of the suicide of 15-year-old Billy Lucas, a student who was harassed at school because he was perceived to be gay:
Sep 8, 2012 · September 08 2012 6:14 PM EST. The mother of William "Billy" Lucas, a 15-year-old boy who committed suicide in 2010 after being bullied, is suing the school he attended for not protecting...
Sep 29, 2010 · He grew up winning blue ribbons for his prized and much loved horses and lambs. He also grew up enduring taunts, threats, and physical abuse from bullies. He grew up with those bullies telling him he should kill himself because they thought he was gay. Whether he was or not, Billy never said.
