Comments on: Houston Gay Teen Beaten with Metal Pipe Appealed for Help, But in Vain

By: Gay Houston Boy Bullied To Death: Shoots Himself After Unbearable School Torment « Unfinished Lives

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:42:05 +0000

[...] be stopped. It did happen. There are witnesses everywhere.” The Cy-Fair School District has a history of gay student harassment, as the Unfinished Lives Project reported in November 2009, with a violent attack against a gay [...]

By: Dorian

Dorian — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:49:46 +0000

im totally agree with Carl, i was on a hihg school on a small town on texas too, and i always had to deal with acts like that, i hate that, i never go back

By: Carl J. Stoneham

Carl J. Stoneham — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:10 +0000

PS The GLSEN report I linked above adds parents to the mix and is an additional resource to the 2007 reports (as far as I am aware).

By: Carl J. Stoneham

Carl J. Stoneham — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:52:21 +0000

This is going to be an important case as far as TX schools go. Hopefully, the mother will decide to sue and, even better, won’t settle out of court. Texas state law requires that reports like this be taken seriously. The principals involved, as well as the bus driver, failed in their duties as employees of a state educational institution.

A 2008 report on LGBT treatment in schools:
http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/news/record/2271.html