Bullying

Ramin Setoodeh helped to kill Tyler Clementi: Why is People letting him write about him?

Submitted by toddshui on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 07:37

Before Ramin Setoodeh attracted the ire of Kristen Chenoweth by writing that "queeny" gay men like 25-year-old Jonathan Groff should not be cast as straight characters, he was attacking people for trying to make gay kids feel safe in schools.  In a Newsweek article called "Young, Gay, and Murdered," published in July  2008, Setoodeh suggests that adults who encouraged 15-year-old Larry King to be proud of his gay ide

Dan Savage: Antigay bully

Submitted by toddshui on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 06:53

It's very nice that Dan Savage has decided to encourage gay kids not to kill themselves in response to homophobic bullying. But I wish he would also discourage anti-gay bullying by not using hateful, anti-gay language himself. This is part of the tribute he sent to Andrew Sullivan's celebration of himself today:

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