Stone Cold on Gay Marriage

[Belsnickel]

(06-11-2015, 08:45 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: As for the other thing, it may have something to do with the fact that they're still discriminated against. As a teen, that can be quite tough. Despite what Glee has told you, it's still not a cake walk yet for gay teens. Interesting that schools without Gay Student Alliances have twice as many suicide attempts as schools with them...

Indeed. To hear of the things said and done to members of the LGBT community at schools, up through college as well, is just appalling. We do talk on here about poll numbers in favor of equality and whatnot for the community, but in truth more of it is mere tolerance than it is acceptance. There is also still a large portion of the population that neither accepts nor tolerates them, and some of those have a way of making things miserable for them.

We have a program at our school, and it exists in other higher education institutes, called Safe Zone. Members of the faculty and staff that are allies of the community are listed on a website and promote their membership somewhere in their office so that if someone has something happen, or just needs to talk, they know we are there for them. Through this I have heard some horrible things that have happened to young men and women on our campus at the hands of some hate filled members of our community. Some of them have come from membership of a campus community called Cru, as well as some of the fraternities and sororities. There is organized hate occurring on our campus, and I wouldn't be surprised if it happened on others as well. No matter the level of support someone may have, things like that can make someone feel despondent.