If you get an email like the one below, don’t click on any of the links, or provide any of your information. This is a scam to obtain access to your email account.
I found this in my email today, and at first glance, it looks authentic. It’s not. For one, AT&T doesn’t send out mass mailings from a gmail.com address!
Photo: Wenatchee World
Another gay teen has taken his own life after enduring years of bullying. Rafael Morelos, 14, hanged himself January 29, 2012, in Cashmere, Washington.
His middle school principle, Rob Cline, told the Wenatchee World that there was no ongoing investigation about bullying at the school. He said that Rafael had, earlier in the school year, reported one incidence of being bullied but “we took care of that. We investigated and took appropriate action.”
The Wenatchee World also reports that the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office is the investigating agency, and determined that it was a suicide and there was no foul play involved.
“You’re the first one who ever indicated to me that he had been bullied,” said Sheriff Brian Burnett in a phone interview Saturday.
Very NSFW! But funny as hell!
Sunday, February 19, 2012 3 – 5 pm
Family HealthCare Network
305 East Center Street (Corner of Bridge Street)
Visalia, California
(Use the courtyard entrance on Bridge. Pedestrian gate is in the alley.)
Map: Click here
LGBTQ Life On Line in the Central Valley
Our February program is one that connects us all via blogging with our favorite bloggers.
Jim Reeves – Queerlandia/QueerVisalia
Brooke Burke – GayVisalia/GayPorterville
Justin Kamimoto, Ted Freitas – MyLGBTPlus
Andrew Miller – PFLAG Tulare and Kings Counties fb page
Lots of information, lots of connections, and lots of support! We look forward to seeing everyone.
Are you a HAM radio operator? LGBT? Then this might be the group for you!
I’ve been a licensed Amateur Radio Service operator since 1991. In that time I’ve been on FM voice in the VHF and UHF bands, on computer-to-computer links via radio (called packet radio), on live television (yes, we can do TV!), GPS map tracking over radio (APRS), and Internet linking that allows me to use a walkie-talkie to communicate almost anywhere in the world! Even McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
All this and shortwave communications around the world are possible to licensed Amateur Radio Operators! Check out the hobby/service. We’d be glad to have you join us.
73, KC6YRU
At his chosen family memorial, Jennifer McGuire, the “Mama Badger” who took Eric into her home after he was kicked out of his parent’s, gave this moving eulogy. The crowd was in tears as it rose to its feet in applause at the end.
PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris. In a post at his blog, Pharyngula, Professor Myers today warns people visiting Minnesota to avoid the Congressional District of Michele Bachmann, and specifically the Anoka-Hennepin School District.
Why am I so eager to separate myself from that area, and why am I urging you to shun it? Because it seems every state needs a sphincter where the unpleasant inhabitants must congregate, and Anoka-Hennepin is it for us (well, and a few other places: states aren’t restricted by metazoan anatomy, and can have many sphincters). This is one of the areas that elected Michele Bachmann; it’s been in the news lately because it is the center of a wave of teen suicides, where bullying is common and gay kids are often the target.
Parents in the district have put pressure on the school board to adopt a list of actions they’ve drawn up.
Photo: GayUSAthemovie
The site Gay USA has posted excerpts from the notes left by EricJames. (Suicide claims another LGBT youth: Eric James Borges, 19) In them, he requests that $500 go to Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, $500 to the Trevor Project, and $521.56 to the Human Rights Campaign.
Also posted at the site are excerpts from the eulogies given by William “Van” Vanlandingham, and the woman who took him in after he was kicked out of his home by his parents, Jennifer McGuire.
McGuire pulled no punches in her eulogy.
“I am not going to avoid the elephant in the room. He tells his story better than any of us could in his short film and “It Gets Better” video, but I need it to be spoken out loud – and said for him… his parents tortured him – there is no other word to describe it. What he shared in his video was the tip of the iceberg, and that’s only compared with what he shared with me, and I am sure there was more.
His parents tortured him by not protecting him from the extensive bullying. His parents tortured him through their relentless, extremist religious teachings. His parents tortured him with shame and intolerance and emotional and physical abuse that most of us can’t even begin to imagine. And yes, I blame them, and not just a little, but for a majority percentage… His parents killed him.”
Full story at Gay USA.
Robert Peterson of Bakersfield, California, did a little research recently. Here’s what he found.
