you are right……this must not continue any longer.
Chantal’s sister posted to the comments on Autostraddle, stating the facts of that site’s piece are incorrect.
(however she did not elaborate)
It’s understandable if she’d be upset by the public attention, esp. with the recent sad trend.

This is best addressed as issues involving mental illness/destressThis suicide has nothing to with the string of suicides in the US.
As I’ve said before, suicides happen every day in this country (and in Canada where this story originates).
People here only seem to care as long as the victim is LGBT…but the fact remains that there has not been a sudden spike in the numbers. There has simply been a spike in the coverage (of course only for the gay kids…all of the othe reasons for suicide can continue to be ignored).
What makes this one interesting is that the usual refrain from some LGBT activists clearly do not apply here. As this occured in Canada, NONE of the social “injustices” that are applied to cases in the US exist in Canada. Apparently its a LGBT utopia…yet strangely enough gay people still committ suicide there.
Maybe this will get some folks to acknowledge that this is NOT just an LGBT issue.

SciFi Geek, you are lying again…the current coverage may be focusing of LGBT kids but…I’ll say it again, The Pheobe Prince case in Massachusetts (which involved some “slut shaming” and anti-immigrant bias) received international attention.
And we actually don’t know whether or not there has actually been a spike in the numbers although we do know that it appears to be happening in clusters (as they did last year with the Herrera, Walker-Hoover, and the case of the white kid from Ohio).
I also find it funny that you sit on here and harangue and harangue about marriage, DADT, at what you describe as “elite issues” yet when it comes to the issues of LGBT suicides (which many gay activists have trying to get awareness of into the MSM for years) you shit on that too.
As far as this not simply being an LGBT issue, you’re right about that and even in my own case of the bullying that I encountered when I was growing up that was the case.
But…uh, LGBT blogs focus on LGBT issues. If you think the coverage should be more expansive, then write a damn diary stating what your position is on bullying and why and stop pissing on those that do write about the issue (and I do make a distinction between critiquing coverage of the issue and simply pissing on the fact that there is coverage of the issue).

When anti-bullying legislationwas passed in Georgia and Massachusetts, it was LGBT-inclusive and not exclusive and it was widely covered in the LGBT blogosphere.

homophobia does not know boundariesCanada is not exempt from the heterosexist normative.  

Having said that Geek IS correct in saying that this may or may not have anything to do directly with anti-gay bias. However…
Anti-gay bias (and Canada is not free from anti-gay bias, which part of your ass did you pull that meme from, Geek?) and homophobia do contribute to mental illiness.

Cruel and heartlessMy first year teaching I had a female student in tears and unable to focus for several weeks.  Of the teachers on our team, I had the closest relationship with her, and still it took a long time for her to disclose her orientation, that she was dealing with disapproval at home, and she didn’t know what to do.  Her big concern was that if she told me, I would react the same way her family (including her mother–a single mom who she was very close to) did.  While I’m not qualified as a psychologist or counselor, I did make an appointment for one of the school’s counselor’s to sit down and talk with her–after I reassured her that I liked her, respected her, and valued her as a student and a person.  
I also had a friend commit suicide in high school.  It was devastating to our entire class.  He was more of a casual friend than in the close circle that I did stuff with every day.  The school didn’t respond very well to that incident, either.  We were told in our second period classes that he wasn’t coming back (something that didn’t happen when a student moved or was expelled.
If you want to say that people here are concerned with suicides of LGBT youth as an LGBT issue, then, uh, duh, that’s the focus of the site.  If you want to imply that because we’re not talking about every suicide we’re not interested in suicide as an overall problem, that’s just another of the useless, nonsensical comments that I’m used to seeing from you.
Before you type something else stupid, let me pre-emptively say that I’m appalled at the rate that teenagers feel they need to run away from home and then end up homeless.  There’s also a much higher incidence rate in LGBT homeless teens than straight teens as children who come out are rejected by their parents and forced out of the home.  (This is one of the primary things that my bisexual student was afraid of, by the way.  Her whole future went from solid to wildly in doubt and hinged wholly on her mother’s acceptance and support.)

SciFi Geek is a homophobe, tell it like it isI know this because my cousin prattled on and on about how most gay people are mentally depressed and have psychological problems because they’re not normal…
..as if the homophobia in society at large doesn’t contribute to those mental conditions.
You really can’t talk about mental health in GLBT communities without understanding the effects of homophobia on mental health.
Also, Geek’s is a version of the “selfish white gays who are only concerned about themselves” argument.
Who else is going to put our stories out there, for one?
And why can’t other groups of people who are not gay but go through this problem reach out to our community?

not againlet us just pray for their souls, they have that right to be respected.
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Canada is not that different from the U.S. – suburbs and small towns aren’t tolerantThe majority of people in  cities of Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal might be largely indifferent to lesbians and gays*, but the suburbs are full of people who are concerned about the lack of “respectability” (if not religious) or “sin” (if religious) of LGBTs. When one has been raised in a homogenous social environment, it is very difficult to walk away from parents, friends, and inherited mores.
*Bisexuals are not seen as such, but as lesbian, gay, heterosexual. Trans people are butts of jokes and discrimination if not outright violence, as they are in all other locales on the continent.