Ethics

Day of Silence 2009

By Ed Brayton

A longtime reader emailed to express his disappointment in me for not mentioning this year's Day of Silence, which was on Friday, April 17th. I'm glad he reminded me and I'm disappointed that I missed it too. This year's Day of Silence was dedicated to a young man named Carl Walker-Hoover, who hung himself on April 6th after relentless anti-gay bullying at school. He would have turned 12 on April 17th, the Day of Silence. Carl's mother told the local newspaper:

"If anything can come of this, it's that another child doesn't have to suffer like this and there can be some justice for some other child. I don't want any other parent to go through this."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 26, 2009 (boomark / email).