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19 Nov 2009

Principals, Bus Driver Ignored Pleas for Help from High School Student Beaten with Metal Pipe for Being Gay

robot-heart-politics:

notthatkindagay:adeandabet:

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 so wrong. Why does this kind of stuff still happen? Where’s the outrage?

Reblogged: robot-heart-politics

  1. imnotcoolenough reblogged this from princesslloyddia
  2. aloysha reblogged this from forgetwhatyoubelieve and added:
    Omg guys..I live near that school.
  3. forgetwhatyoubelieve reblogged this from imovedtodrownthevoices and added:
    how the ACTUAL FUCK could ANYONE do this? and what’s even fucking worse is that people in fucking authority, in...
  4. imovedtodrownthevoices reblogged this from jimmy-mance
  5. jimmy-mance reblogged this from adeandabet
  6. alekibutt reblogged this from dancefloor
  7. boney-eyes-jefferson reblogged this from loveandzombies
  8. pwnator reblogged this from enteekaygee
  9. trez-supreme reblogged this from robot-heart-politics and added:
    Again! Another brutal assault towards a Gay teen. WHEN IS THIS GOING TO STOP!!! I can honestly understand the fear that...
  10. mikkelbang reblogged this from aceofwinchesters and added:
    okay this is friggin WRONG. people can’t be so ignorant or prejudice. it’s just not right.
  11. justkeepbreathing reblogged this from xuananigans
  12. xuananigans reblogged this from robot-heart-politics and added:
    is so wrong. Why does this...stuff still happen? Where’s
  13. dirntdirntdirntdirnt reblogged this from 1-0-2-8 and added:
    Fucking hell, this is disgusting.
  14. ckburch reblogged this from travs and added:
    matthewjoseph:outofstateplates:notthatkindagay:adeandabet:...Jayron Martin, a 16-year-old...
  15. interpellate reblogged this from adeandabet
  16. survivingmyself reblogged this from genoprimanti
  17. soylentjames reblogged this from plaintruthiness
  18. dancefloor reblogged this from robot-heart-politics and added:
    Coincidentally, talking about homosexuality in class. You know that tone where people say, ‘Nothing wrong’ with gay...
  19. listofnow reblogged this from robot-heart-politics and added:
    those conversations that makes me want to bang my head against...desk, in which several...
  20. plaintruthiness reblogged this from travs
  21. theshitliketiktik reblogged this from 1-0-2-8 and added:
    That’s bullshit.
  22. houseatpoohcorner reblogged this from savvymac and added:
    I hope he’s someones bitch in prison. True karma there.
  23. pandasandcorgisgalore reblogged this from 1-0-2-8 and added:
    Why the hell didn’t the principal or busdriver listen? That’s effing bull shit.