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Gay Suicide Victims Remembered At New York Vigil
Posted on Mon Oct 4, 2010 09:47 AM PDT
NYU students gathered in New York's Washington Square park last night for a vigil remembering Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers University freshman who committed suicide after his college roommate (allegedly) secretly videotaped him having sex with another male, as well as other recent gay suicide victims.
Event organizer Ryan Rockmore said the vigil "came about last Wednesday. There was a coming out panel at NYU, which I was serving on, and we spoke about the suicides which have recently happened," he told MTV News. "And I thought of the idea of a vigil and I collaborated with the LBGT office and members of my fraternity to come together to really create this big event."
Ellen Degeneres recently spoke out about the suicide, saying she was "devastated" over the sad turn of events.
So sad.
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Comments
Candle light vigils, of any type, are a joke. It's another way the Facebook generation thinks it accomplishes something by standing around and talking. Most people are there just so they can write on their Facebook page that they were there. It's useless, but they all do the most important thing in their shallow lives: they feel good about themselves. The self-esteem generation strikes again.
The Mormon church has a huge amount of gay kids who kill themselves over the church's hateful stance against gays.
Ha! Utah has the highest Prozac consumption in the nation!
What does that tell you about what Mormonism does to people's mental health in general?
Do NOT JOIN CULTS!!!
They want your money and your free work.
Mormonism never was happiness.
Why would any free American join such restrictive "churches"? They boss you around, take your money, and strip you of your civil rights.
all fagits should die
Scientology is worse.