sadly.. we have another teen suicide. that could have been prevented:

There is no good news in this story. None. It’s sad, and it’s endemic of the nightmares today’s LGBT youth continue to face every. single. day. Asher Brown, a 13-year-old eighth grader at Hamilton Middle School outside Houston, shot himself in the head last week after being “bullied to death.”

the parents complained about the incidents to the school administration and apparently nothing was done. when asked about the complaints the school denied they ever existed (which in my research and reporting this is the typical response). asher’s mother amy issued this (what i would consider mild and kind) statement:

That’s absolutely inaccurate — it’s completely false.
I did not hallucinate phone calls to counselors and assistant principals. We have no reason to make this up. … It’s like they’re calling us liars. We want justice. The people here need to be held responsible and to be stopped. It did happen. There are witnesses everywhere.

(via queerty)