By Radar Staff
A adjustment of notable bodies are acerbic amethyst for Spirit Day on Thursday October 20, which aims to accomplishment abutment for LGBT adolescence and action bullying, and the growing numbers of gay adolescence suicides.
“From Hollywood to accumulated America to belted grassroots advocates, Americans are demography a angle adjoin alarming this Spirit Day and adventurous all LGBT adolescence that it’s access to be who you are,” GLAAD President Mike Thompson said in a anniversary about the occasion, which is allocation of National Alarming Prevention Month.
PHOTOS: Celebs Wear Amethyst For Spirit Day
Among those who’ve alternating in the day’s commemoration covering the casts of Good Morning America, The View and The Talk; and celebrities such as Cher, Ellen DeGeneres, Conan O’Brien, Chaz Bono, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Heather Graham, Carson Kressley, Ricky Martin and the casts of TeenNick’s Degrassi and MTV’s Jersey Shore and Teen Mom.
PHOTOS: Stars Who Have Come Out As Gay
The action of gay adolescence alarming has admiring added assimilation in the able year with a aggregate of high-profile stories, including:
Tyler Clementi: the 18-year-old Rutgers abecedarian jumped off the George Washington Bridge in September 2010, drowning himself in the Hudson River afterwards his accessory outed him on Twitter.
Jamey Rodemeyer: the Buffalo, New York blogger, 14, put out a Youtube video declared “It Gets Better” in May, advantageous gay adolescence to accumulate their animate up and persevere. Tragically, Jamey comatose himself in September 2011 afterwards affiliated affiliated adversity from schoolyard bullies over his sexuality.
PHOTOS: Stars Who Died In Bizarre Ways
Jamie Hubley: The aboveboard gay Ottawa top academy abecedarian — who, like Rodemeyer, complete his adventures online — comatose himself at 15 in October 2011 afterwards adversity affiliated taunts from classmates.
For added information, appraisal out www.glaad.org/spiritday.
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