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69 relations: All Things Considered, Barack Obama, Bisexuality, Bullying, Cancer, Cardiovascular disease, Coming out, Cyberbullying, Daily Xtra, Dan Savage, Day of Silence, Death of Leelah Alcorn, Depression (mood), Diathesis–stress model, Differential susceptibility hypothesis, Facebook, Gay, Gay bashing, GLSEN, Heterosexism, HIV/AIDS, Homelessness among LGBT youth in the United States, Homophobia, It Gets Better (book), It Gets Better Project, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBT community, LGBT Mormon suicides, List of LGBT-related suicides, List of suicides that have been attributed to bullying, Major depressive disorder, Michelle Obama, Minority stress, National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, NPR, Randy Stone, Recovery approach, Rite of passage, Rob Cover, Same-sex marriage, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco State University, Self-harm, Sexual diversity, Sexual orientation, Social exclusion, Social media, Social stigma, Suicidal ideation, ..., Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicide intervention, Suicide of Blake Brockington, Suicide of Jadin Bell, Suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer, Suicide of Kenneth Weishuhn, Suicide of Tyler Clementi, The New York Times, The Trevor Project, Transgender, Transgender youth, Trevor (film), Twitter, Verbal abuse, Violence against LGBT people, White House, Yogyakarta Principles, YouTube. Expand index (19 more) »
All Things Considered
All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR).
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.
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Bisexuality
Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females, or romantic or sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity; this latter aspect is sometimes alternatively termed pansexuality. The term bisexuality is mainly used in the context of human attraction to denote romantic or sexual feelings toward both men and women, and the concept is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation along with heterosexuality and homosexuality, all of which exist on the heterosexual–homosexual continuum.
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Bullying
Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate or aggressively dominate others.
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Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
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Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels.
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Coming out
Coming out of the closet, or simply coming out, is a metaphor for LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation or of their gender identity.
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Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying or cyberharassment is a form of bullying or harassment using electronic means.
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Daily Xtra
Daily Xtra (formerly Xtra!) is an LGBT-focused internet magazine and former print newspaper published by Pink Triangle Press in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Dan Savage
Daniel Keenan Savage (born October 7, 1964) is an American author, media pundit, journalist, and activist for the LGBT community.
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Day of Silence
In the United States, the Day of Silence is the GLSEN's annual day of action to spread awareness about the effects of the bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) students.
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Death of Leelah Alcorn
Leelah Alcorn (November 15, 1997 – December 28, 2014) was an American transgender girl whose suicide attracted international attention.
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Depression (mood)
Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, tendencies, feelings, and sense of well-being.
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Diathesis–stress model
The diathesis–stress model is a psychological theory that attempts to explain a disorder as the result of an interaction between a predispositional vulnerability and a stress caused by life experiences.
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Differential susceptibility hypothesis
The differential susceptibility hypothesis proposed by Jay Belsky is another interpretation of psychological findings that are usually discussed according to the diathesis-stress model.
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Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.
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Gay
Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.
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Gay bashing
Gay bashing and gay bullying is verbal or physical abuse against a person who is perceived by the aggressor to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, including persons who are actually heterosexual.
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GLSEN
GLSEN (formerly the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) is a United States-based education organization working to create safe and inclusive K-12 schools.
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Heterosexism
Heterosexism is a system of attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of opposite-sex sexuality and relationships.
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HIV/AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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Homelessness among LGBT youth in the United States
Research shows that a disproportionate number of homeless youth in the United States identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, or LGBT.
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Homophobia
Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).
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It Gets Better (book)
It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living is a non-fiction compilation book, edited by Dan Savage and his husband, Terry Miller.
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It Gets Better Project
It Gets Better is an Internet-based 501(c)3 nonprofit founded in the United States by gay activist, author, media pundit, and journalist Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller on September 21, 2010, in response to the suicides of teenagers who were bullied because they were gay or because their peers suspected that they were gay.
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Lesbian
A lesbian is a homosexual woman.
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LGBT
LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.
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LGBT community
The LGBT community or GLBT community, also referred to as the gay community, is a loosely defined grouping of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, LGBT organizations, and subcultures, united by a common culture and social movements.
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LGBT Mormon suicides
In society at large LGBT individuals especially youth are at a higher risk of depression and suicide due to minority stress stemming from societal anti-LGBT biases and stigma, rejection, and internalized homophobia.
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List of LGBT-related suicides
This is a list of notable lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people who have committed suicide.
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List of suicides that have been attributed to bullying
The following is a list of notable suicides that have been attributed to bullying including both in-person bullying and bullying using social media or Internet methods (cyberbullying).
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Major depressive disorder
Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known simply as depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of low mood that is present across most situations.
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Michelle Obama
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American lawyer and writer who served as the First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
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Minority stress
Minority stress describes chronically high levels of stress faced by members of stigmatized minority groups.
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National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention
The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (Action Alliance) is an American suicide prevention organization coordinating national efforts to advance the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (NSSP).
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NPR
National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.
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Randy Stone
Randy Stone (August 26, 1958 – February 12, 2007) was an American actor, producer, casting director, Emmy and Academy Award winner.
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Recovery approach
Psychological recovery or recovery model or the recovery approach to mental disorder or substance dependence emphasizes and supports a person's potential for recovery.
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Rite of passage
A rite of passage is a ceremony of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another.
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Rob Cover
Rob Cover (born 31 May 1972, Canberra, Australia) is a social theorist and media scholar, specialising in critical sexuality studies, digital media theory, minority stereotyping and media scandals, with work on LGBTIQ youth suicide, cultures of social networking and audience interactivity.
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Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage (also known as gay marriage) is the marriage of a same-sex couple, entered into in a civil or religious ceremony.
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San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.
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San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university located in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Self-harm
Self-harm, also known as self-injury, is defined as the intentional, direct injuring of body tissue, done without suicidal intentions.
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Sexual diversity
Gender and sexual diversity (GSD), or simply sexual diversity, is a term used to refer to all the diversities of sex characteristics, sexual orientations and gender identities, without the need to specify each of the identities, behaviors or characteristics that form this plurality.
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Sexual orientation
Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.
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Social exclusion
Social exclusion, or social marginalization, is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society.
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Social media
Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.
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Social stigma
Social stigma is disapproval of (or discontent with) a person based on socially characteristic grounds that are perceived.
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Suicidal ideation
Suicidal ideation, also known as suicidal thoughts, is thinking about or having an unusual preoccupation with suicide.
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Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.
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Suicide attempt
A suicide attempt is an attempt where a person tries to commit suicide but survives.
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Suicide intervention
Suicide intervention is a direct effort to prevent a person or persons from attempting to take their own life or lives intentionally.
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Suicide of Blake Brockington
Blake Brockington (May 14, 1996 – March 23, 2015) was an American trans man whose suicide attracted international attention.
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Suicide of Jadin Bell
Jadin Robert Joseph Bell (June 4, 1997 – February 3, 2013) was an American youth known for his suicide which raised the national profile on youth bullying and gay victimization in bullying.
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Suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer
Jamey Rodemeyer (March 21, 1997 – September 18, 2011) was an American gay teenager, known for his activism against homophobia and his videos on YouTube to help victims of homophobic bullying.
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Suicide of Kenneth Weishuhn
Kenneth Weishuhn (May 27, 1997 – April 14, 2012) was an American teenager who is known for his suicide as a result of bullying for being a gay youth.
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Suicide of Tyler Clementi
Tyler Clementi (December 19, 1991 – September 22, 2010) was an American student at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, who jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge at the age of 18, on September 22, 2010.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project is an American non-profit organization founded in 1998 focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.
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Transgender
Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.
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Transgender youth
Transgender youth are children and adolescents who are transgender and/or transsexual.
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Trevor (film)
Trevor is a 1994 American short film directed by Peggy Rajski, produced by Randy Stone and Peggy Rajski, and written by James Lecesne.
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
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Verbal abuse
Verbal abuse (verbal attack or verbal assault) is when a person forcefully criticizes, insults, or denounces someone else.
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Violence against LGBT people
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people can face violence motivated by hateful attitudes towards their sexuality or gender identity.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.
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Yogyakarta Principles
The Yogyakarta Principles is a 35-page document about human rights in the areas of sexual orientation and gender identity, published as the outcome of an international meeting of human rights groups in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in November 2006.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_among_LGBT_youth
