Response to August

I do not mean to sound too off-topic with this post, but I would like to relate this to something that I actually personally experienced myself. In this post, August talks about the suicide of Justin Aaberg; he was bullied because of his sexual orientation and, because of that, killed himself. I have a younger sister (who is a senior in high school now) who has played softball her whole life. She always plays for her high school, but during her summers she plays on an all-star travel team. She has been on the same all-star travel team for about 9 years now, so she knows all of her team mates very well. Her travel team has generally consisted of the same girls since she first started. Anyways, one girl on that team just recently openly admitted she was a lesbian. It was always assumed by the team, but it was never official. My sister has always been close friends with this specific girl since they have been on the same team for so long. It was just about a year ago this girl "came out". Maybe a month or so before she was comfortable to admit it, she was being bullied by people in her school about being a lesbian. It was just assumed because of how she dressed and acted. She always dressed up in boyish clothes and never really acted like a "girly girl". One day, these two girls bullied her so bad about being a lesbian that she actually went home that day and tried to kill herself. She tried overdosing on her prescription of Adderol. Luckily, her parents called emergency services in time and she survived, but it was a close one. Bullying is a serious problem in schools in todays society no matter what the reason is for it. One of the main reasons of bullying, sadly, is kids being gay or lesbian. As wrong as it sounds, it is still an issue.