My cousin almost killed himself when he was in HS due to bullying etc...He came out at school. This just really burns me when I hear about a senseless death..
From: Jake <jakewest_tn@yahoo.com>
To: Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 12:32 PM
Subject: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Re: Commits Suicide After Years Of Anti-Gay Bullying
Here is update: They met the goal of $5,000 to help pay for his funeral. And THANK everyone who has donated. They will have a more specific update later, donation button, removed.
Further: here is picture of Jacob Rogers ( courtesy of the Advocate):
Jacob was 18 and a high school student in TN who stopped attending HS in his senior yr due to bullying and committed suicide.
Jacob Rogers ...Jake
--- In Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com, "Jake" <jakewest_tn@...> wrote:
>
>
> This gay teen suicide really upsets me. I just caught the article. I
> am unable to say any thing at this time as I just found out and there
> are way too many bad feelings. ....jake
>
> Please read:
>
> Commits Suicide After Years Of Anti-Gay Bullying
>
> 12/ 8/11 - Huffington Post
>
> A Tennessee teen has taken his own life after being subjected to
> anti-gay bullying which, friends say, officials at his high school did
> little to prevent.
>
> As Nashville NBC affiliate WSMV is reporting
> <http://www.wsmv.com/story/16213348/friends-say-classmate-killed-self-af\
> ter-bullying> , Jacob Rogers had been bullied at Cheatham County Central
> High School for the past four years, but at the start of his senior
> year, it had become so bad he dropped out of school. "He started coming
> home his senior year saying 'I don't want to go back. Everyone is so
> mean. They call me a faggot, they call me gay, a queer,'" friend Kaelynn
> Mooningham is quoted by MSNBC as saying
> <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45590450#.TuDiyHNPkqV> .
>
> Though Kaelynn says her friend repeatedly sought help from the school's
> guidance office, Cheatham County Schools Director Dr. Tim Webb said
> officials were only made aware of one incident. After the principal
> intervened, Jacob said things were getting better, Webb said. He also
> acknowledged a series of staff changes at the school could've had an
> impact in how the situation was addressed: "We have a new principal, a
> new assistant principal and at least one new guidance counselor out
> there...so it could've been they didn't have the knowledge of the
> history of what was going on."
>
> Kaelynn disagrees: "It was different and it was worse, and they ignored
> him." She also noted Jacob's family may not have enough money for a
> funeral.
>
> UPDATE: A number of gay blogs -- Towleroad <http://www.towleroad.com/> ,
> Dan Savage's Slog
> <http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/12/08/bullied-teenager-t\
> akes-own-life-in-tennessee> and Joe.My.God
> <http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/> -- have created a donation fund
> <http://www.towleroad.com/2011/12/help-pay-for-funeral-for-bullied-gay-t\
> ennessee-teen-jacob-rogers.html> to help pay for Jacob's funeral.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/jacob-rogers-tennessee-teen-sui\
> cide-_n_1136689.html#s415593
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/jacob-rogers-tennessee-teen-su\
> icide-_n_1136689.html#s415593>
>
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