“It’s not just a gay issue,” said Sirdeaner Walker, mother of 11-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, who died by suicide last week after months of anti-gay taunts. “It’s bigger.”
The Advocate has a long interview with Walker. It’s an emotionally tough read, but worth it.
I mentioned in my roundup yesterday that GLSEN’s upcoming National Day of Silence on April 17, when students raise awareness of anti-LGBT bullying, made the tragedy even more poignant. The Advocate adds that April 17 would have been Walker-Hoover’s birthday. He’ll never blow out those 12 candles.
His death was needless, but let us hope it will at least help to raise awareness of why we must all work to stop bullying. Of course, I said the same thing about Lawrence King last year. How many more children must die before we as a society get a clue?
(Thanks, Pam.)
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