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Media news about LGBTQ teens is everywhere currently: Both Positive and negative.

Tyler Clementi, One of Many Teen Suicide Victims
On Sunday night, October 3, as the rain started falling in the city, hundreds gathered in Washington Square Park in New York to hold a vigil remembering Tyler Clementi and other teenage suicide victims. The vigil was also a rally and call for action to address the growing incidence of gay suicides "as a result of homophobic bullying".

Clementi, an 18 year old freshman at Rutgers University in New Jersey, committed suicide after a roommate used a webcam to publicly out him in a broadcast over the internet. The two students whom have been charged with invasion of privacy, but should there be more?

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Ellen's Heart Felt Plea
There has been so much horrible news this week about gay teens killing themselves because of the cruelty of their peers. One of them was 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers University, who jumped off of the George Washington Bridge after his roommate, Dharun Ravi, broadcast video of Clementi having a sex encounter on the internet.

“I am devastated over the death of 18-year-old Tyler Clementi,” Ellen said in a recent live taping of her talk show. “He was outed as being gay on the Internet and he killed himself. … One life lost in this senseless way is tragic." Noting the three other deaths that have been reported with gay teens this month, Ellen added, “Something must be done. … This needs to be a wake-up call to everyone that teenage bullying and teasing is an epidemic in this country, and the death rate is climbing. We have an obligation to change this.”

Why do you think gay teen suicide is on the rise? And how do you think we can all step forward to put it to an end?
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TV's Gay Teens Are Having a Moment
TV is currently welcoming gay teen characters, from little Justin Suarez from //Ugly Betty//, to fashion forward Kurt Hummle from //Glee//. His coming-out-to-dad scene was handled with care and respect — it was realistic but still TV warm, it wasn't a big grand-standing Emmy reel moment but was wholly emotional and satisfying. It was a big moment in a life and then that was that. The world spun forward and when the show comes back, dude's getting a boyfriend. No one batted an eyelash, and that's probably progress. For a show as zeitgeisty as //Glee//, that the gay kid plot-line went mostly unexamined might mean that we're slowly starting to lurch forward.

What do you think? Are American audiences more accepting of gay characters on TV?
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