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This makes me sick to my stomach. The kind of isolation of being in danger and knowing that no one will help you. Thank god someone finally intervened, or we might have had another casualty. How do we stop this!?:

Jayron Martin, a 16-year-old student at Langham Creek High School near Houston, was attacked by a group of students on November 12 because he’s gay. Martin said he heard the boys were planning the attack and asked two principals and a bus driver for help, but was ignored.

Martin’s fears were confirmed when he was chased off his school bus and assaulted for seven minutes by a boy with a metal pipe while eight others watched. The attack was stopped by a property owner nearby who scared the gang away with a shotgun.

Said Martin, who is afraid to go back to school: “All they kept saying was, ‘We going to get you. We going to fight you,’ and all that and so when they started coming after me they were like, ‘You’re not going to be gay anymore.’ They just kept hitting me…You don’t understand, I was just running for my life and nobody was like there at all. Nobody was doing anything for me.”

Martin suffered a concussion, cuts and bruises. The 16-year-old who beat him has been arrested. No other arrests have been made.

(via Towleroad)

I’m out in my office.  The other day a few of us were having one of those conversations that makes me want to bang my head against the desk, in which several people were arguing with me (one of them an out gay man) about how “far we’ve come” and the American mainstream “more or less” is accepting and tolerant.   The same person also was trying to argue about why it’s ok for people to say “that is so gay” synonymous for something stupid or annoying… and how people don’t relate it to being homosexual anymore….

FUCK.  that.  noise.  This -THIS AND EVERY OTHER STUDENT or PERSON WHO WAS BULLIED, HARRASSED, BEATEN and ALIENATED for being queer or trans or even suspected to be - is why we are not even close to over fighting for visibility, inclusion and acceptance (not “tolerance”) in the laws, the culture and the mainstream.

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   Omg guys..I live near that school.

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   how the ACTUAL FUCK could ANYONE do this? and what’s even fucking worse is that people in fucking authority, in...

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    Again! Another brutal assault towards a Gay teen. WHEN IS THIS GOING TO STOP!!! I can honestly understand the fear that...

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    okay this is friggin WRONG. people can’t be so ignorant or prejudice. it’s just not right.

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    is so wrong. Why does this...stuff still happen? Where’s

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    Fucking hell, this is disgusting.

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    matthewjoseph:outofstateplates:notthatkindagay:adeandabet:...Jayron Martin, a 16-year-old...

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    Coincidentally, talking about homosexuality in class. You know that tone where people say, ‘Nothing wrong’ with gay...

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    those conversations that makes me want to bang my head against...desk, in which several...

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    That’s bullshit.

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    I hope he’s someones bitch in prison. True karma there.

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    Why the hell didn’t the principal or busdriver listen? That’s effing bull shit.

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