TONIGHT 10/3 9pm NYU GLBTQA Student Leaders Host Vigil for Bullying Victims

[CapnHook]

Posted: 10/3/10 at 4:57am

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=158097784219087&ref=mf

Washington Square Park. Bring a glowstick and chalk.

A vigil in memory of those we recently lost. Those who were bullied and took their own lives because they saw it as their only way out.

The ones this month that we know about:

Billy Lucas, 15: September 9, 2010. Indiana

Cody J. Barker, 17: September 13, 2010. Wisconsin

Seth Walsh, 13: September 19, 2010. California

Tyler Clementi, 18: September 22, 2010. New Jersey

Asher Brown, 13: September 23, 2010. Texas

Harrison Chase Brown, 15: September, 25 2010. Colorado

Raymond Chase, 19: September 29, 2010. Rhode Island

Felix Sacco, 17: September 29, 2010. Massachusetts

Caleb Nolt, 14: September 30, 2010. Indiana

Updated On: 10/3/10 at 04:57 AM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/3/10 at 2:05pm

What's the A for?

[strummergirl]

Posted: 10/3/10 at 2:06pm

Allies?

[Q]

Posted: 10/3/10 at 2:07pm

Asexuals?

And I've seen an 'I' sometimes, also (for Intersex, I think.)

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 10/4/10 at 3:27pm

I was thinking 'Alliance.'

If I'd have been in NYC, I would have gone. The old adage of "the more things change, the more they stay the same" takes on new life with this. It's bringing back a flood of bad personal memories that began with wearing the wrong shoes in 4th grade, being asked if I had any hair on my c..t in 5th grade (mishearing it, I piped up with a cheery "not yet") and continuing on in various ways, shapes and forms on through high school. Nothing physical, thank God, but still...

I saw one of my tormentors on a local golf course last year and it took a lot of willpower for me not to go clock him on the back of the head with a club. Not the brightest move, I know, but to still harbor that level of ill will 30-plus years later tells you the impact it all had on me way back when.