It hurts and saddens me to hear of all these suicides of gay youth. It shouldn't happen, but it does. And while the bullies are to be blamed for their part, so are the rest of us.
There's a stigma to being homosexual. It is enforced by the culture and society we live in and silently embraced by those who are LGBT. Yes, we fight for equality, but not as hard as we could. We are a spineless "community" who let political parties walk over us and just whine about it. Why? Because we still, to a point, believe in the stigma. That is what holds us back.
How can we, the LGBT "community", stand up and help these youths, along with all the homeless youth, when we can't stand up and help ourselves? So, while the bullies are getting the spotlight and finding out that they are part of the cause of the deaths of their victims, we must also step up and realize that we are also to blame and have a part.
We are all to blame.
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