Before reading this article and talking about it in class I only thought that Clementi killed himself just for having his sexual encounters put on the internet. At first I though, okay well this kid needs to grow up its just sex and there would be no reason to kill yourself over it. But then I was informed that he was gay. The homosexual community already has enough hardships with the courage to come out and being accepted for being themselves. In the real world I know many families have become accepting of their childrens sexual orientation but on the flip side their peers can be very mean and even cruel to them everyday. This can put an unimaginable amount of guilt of teens just for being themselves. Thats obviously what happened to the teenagers in the article. Tyler Clementi was bullied to such an extent to take his own life adn unfortunately that is happening to many gay teenagers out there.
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