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This makes me sick to my stomach. The kind of isolation of being in danger and knowing that no one will help you. Thank god someone finally intervened, or we might have had another casualty. How do we stop this!?:

Jayron Martin, a 16-year-old student at Langham Creek High School near Houston, was attacked by a group of students on November 12 because he’s gay. Martin said he heard the boys were planning the attack and asked two principals and a bus driver for help, but was ignored.

Martin’s fears were confirmed when he was chased off his school bus and assaulted for seven minutes by a boy with a metal pipe while eight others watched. The attack was stopped by a property owner nearby who scared the gang away with a shotgun.

Said Martin, who is afraid to go back to school: “All they kept saying was, ‘We going to get you. We going to fight you,’ and all that and so when they started coming after me they were like, ‘You’re not going to be gay anymore.’ They just kept hitting me…You don’t understand, I was just running for my life and nobody was like there at all. Nobody was doing anything for me.”

Martin suffered a concussion, cuts and bruises. The 16-year-old who beat him has been arrested. No other arrests have been made.

(via Towleroad)

This is depressing and horrifying.  The system completely failed this teen.  Thankfully a complete stranger chased off what was obviously a mob intent on hurting or killing another person.  This could have been prevented if one of the people technically responsible for this kid’s well-being had been listened to him, but no, instead he had to rely on the luck or grace of a stranger being in the right place and ready to intervene.

Another disgusting example of anti-gay violence…

I feel like I need to start shoving these things into the face of everyone I know because people seem so complacent in letting the GLBTQ integrate and become “accepted” at a snail’s pace. (I.e. Compromising on marriage rights.) Meanwhile there are still casualties. And usually they’re kids.

It’s just not right.

SLOW PROGRESS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE PROGRESS!

Contact the school at (281) 463-5400.

What the hell were those people thinking?  Did they even have an excuse for ignoring it like, “we can’t do anything without evidence of the threat?” Because I could maybe, MAYBE! understand not wanting to punish a bunch of kids based on word of mouth but something should have been done just in case it wasn’t just talk (as was the case).  This is just disgusting. Every single person he asked for help should be fired. Shame on them. This makes me sick. I hope the poor boy recovers alright. To the guy that beat him: Karma is a bitch. Have fun in prison. ;)

 … I live in Houston.

Yet another reason to be ashamed of it.

& now, scared too.

But I guess it’d be different with me, since I’m a girl?

Guys seem to accept that, and girls just avoid you.

SMH.