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A Gay Dad Sounds Off on Tweeny-vision and the Bully Playground
Jasmyn Smith committed suicide. According to her family and friends, she had endured “a year and a half of being heavily bullied, both at school and online”. She was…eleven. I cannot stand that this...
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A Gay Dad Remembers: My Journey Through the Dark Shadows
Journey Through Dark Shadows The behavior of bullies must be stopped. Cold. Daily, we become more aware. The issue is deeper however. We cast young people into a web of social complexity and ignore...
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The Bully Pulpit by Guest Blogger, Jeffrey C. Sherman
Jeffrey C. Sherman is a writer, producer, director and composer for film and television. The Bully Pulpit by Jeffrey C. Sherman From Wikipedia: “An older term within the U.S. Government, a bully...
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A Gay Dad Proposes a Plan Against Bullying: The Rainbow Berets
There have been times of war when conventional forces were not enough. Situations were too complicated and too tenuous in a fragile balance. It was in these moments, that a special force was sent in...
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Cruel Does Not Equal Cool. (What those tempted to bully should know)
This is the mantra of the Rainbow Berets. To join the Rainbow Beret team, click the photo and like the Rainbow Beret Facebook page. Declare yourself to be an ally to the bullied, and an advocate...
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Desiderata for the Bullied
Yesterday I made an “It Gets Better Video” for the large company at which I work. Another friend and I got the project going several months ago, which culminated in our video shoot yesterday. We...
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The Lynching of a Butterfly and the Modern Mob
As a Dad, I cannot fathom the horrific pain that Jadin Bell’s parents must be experiencing. I ache for them. The officials are calling the possible impending death of young Jadin an attempted...
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Homophobia’s Cruel Mother’s Day
It was the Friday before Mother’s Day. I had published a blog piece on the nature of Mother’s Day and the celebration of all who feel mother love running through their souls. I was finishing up a...
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A Gay Dad Mourns the Loss of Joe Bell, Killed in the Line of Duty of Being a Dad
“Making headway, one step at a time”. This was the last communication from Joe Bell on his epic quest to walk across the United States and do everything within his power to end bullying, intolerance...
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A Mom’s Perspective is Profoundly Changed by Amazing Closure With the Bully...
Guest blog by Mindy Forsythe, author of How My Eleven Year Old Son Taught Me That Having a Gay Character in ‘Train Your Dragon’ is Important “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never...
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