‘You Don’t Know How It Feels To Be Hated.’ Another Gay Teen Suicide

Posted by Kevin Farrell on Apr 17, 2012 in Bad News | 19 comments

Kenneth Weishuhn: Dead at 14

After merciless bullying in school, online, and a slew of death threats over the phone, 14-year-old Kenneth Weishuhn is dead.

“He says, ‘Mom, you don’t know how it feels to be hated,” said Jeannie Chambers.

Kenneth Weishuhn didn’t know either, until he told his friends last month that he was gay.

“People that were originally his friends, they kind of turned on him,” said his sister Kayla Weishuhn.

Teasing started in school, according Kayla, a sophomore. She says it was the boys in her class, that bullied her brother over his sexuality.

“A lot of people, they either joined in or they were too scared to say anything,” she said.

Kenneth’s school, South O’Brien High School, allegedly gave the students who were threatening to murder him a warning, but pursued no further action to discipline the would-be killers or to protect to now dead teenager.

How’d that plan work out for you, South O’Brien?

When Kenneth’s parent’s have had time to process their enormous loss, they say they may pursue legal action against the school for their arguably very legitimate part in the death of their son.

How many stories like this do we have to read before schools actually start giving a damn about the lives of gay students they are charged with protecting?

(via KTIV)

http://www.MaleEroticEvolution.com/ Michael!

Absolutely heart breaking…for this and all the other kids that choose suicide over the harassment. I know what they’re going through and hope those still living can find the help and support they need and deserve.
Gay Shark

This is just horrible. I just can’t understand why people act the way they do. I just breaks my heart knowing that this could of been prevented if someone had just taken the time to talk about it.
http://www.facebook.com/thomas.d.adams Thomas D. Adams

This breaks my heart on so many levels. Im now 70 years old,, and have lived to see so many changes in gay life. This is such a shame, that in this day and age this still goes on. My heart breaks for his family friends. May God bless his immortal soul.
Laurie Edwards

This is heartbreaking. So many of our little ones…
http://www.facebook.com/KefetxMelodie Melodie Renee Hawkins

Every time I read one of these, my faith in humanity dies a little more, and my heart shatters. I came very close to being one of these cases (though because of my faith, not my orientation, but I was still called gay slurs despite that). When will people wake up and realize how harmful bullying is?
http://www.facebook.com/dennis.pelletier1 Dennis Pelletier

This is so senseless! The bullies should be made to do 1,000,000 hours of community service in a gay facility!

http://profile.yahoo.com/7OPFCMRG42ID5QHLKXDCYHSSZQ Lylli

Haters will always hate. Sending them to a haven for what they hate most won’t inspire people to love or change their ways.

Anonymous

Could we create some kind of anti-anti-gay camp? You know, convert the homophobes?

http://www.facebook.com/people/Alice-Fening/100001238709968 Alice Fening

Wake up America! End this madness!
http://profile.yahoo.com/CSBB37RRFZBGVF2R4TFVEAM3XI Playful

Again another huge loss due to intolerance and hatred fomented in the name of religion and god, when god is all about love and acceptance, adults have to realize they play a part in what their children become and education in tolerance begins at home, by accepting that it may not be your preference, but because it is different it does not mean it is wrong, I dislike it when any God is used to pursue any hatred agenda.
http://www.facebook.com/self.sufficiently.challenged JC Anderson

This shit will always go on their parents and nearly everyone else is ignorant to that.
http://www.facebook.com/wade.shipman Wade Shipman

What site is this?!! After a disturbing article about teen suicide and anti-gay haters this site claims that “if I like this article, I might like their other articles about naked men, a funeral home employee arrested for molesting a corpse, or Dave Franco in a “Shirtcocking Safety PSA.
Grow some scrupples whoever put this together.
Why is it that we never hear about abused gay people murdering their tormentors? After seeing the way people brush their suicide off like they are better off dead and doing nothing to the ones that killed them maybe the time has come for a change. Fight back with everything you can find and may the worthy survive. Harsh, I know, but enough is enough. No more nice guy. No one deserves to be abused like that!!!
Dave .

Another senseless loss due to bullying in a country that would rate a movie about anti bullying (Bully) as ‘R’ while a movie about teens killing each other (Hunger Games) is PG-13. Tells you something about American society. My heart goes out to the parents. We share your pain. Stand up and make your voice heard to protect others in the future. :(

Anonymous

Thankfully, “Bully” will now have a PG-13 rating!

http://twitter.com/curtisjunk Curtis Jensen

And the Right Wing is fighting anti-bullying laws over supposed threats to the religious freedom. That’s right folks, they think it’s their religious freedom to bully you if they have moral objections to you. It’s beyond pathetic that the right wing thinks it is more important for them to be able to publicly hate you, than for you to go through life without harassment.
Anonymous

It makes me so damn mad that this happened in my home state…it’s a giant disappointment.
http://twitter.com/ForAndAgainst jim morrison

can we finally stop calling it “bullying” now? bullying is when your books get pushed on the floor or someone calls you a geek or makes fun of your sneakers. harassing, attacking, threatening the life of someone is a crime. throw in that it’s based on someone’s identity it’s a hate crime. “bullying” diminishes the more serious nature that this sad event boldly shows
http://www.facebook.com/austinThaBoss3itch Austin Smith

it really hurts me to think that people can treat a fellow human being so horribly that they kill themselves and not care about it
Anonymous

I was bullied through elementary and high school. Every day was a bad day. I know what this kid went through. I’m sorry society failed him.

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