From the article: Bullyshield
According to experts, a kids' "perceived sexual orientation" is the number two reason they are bullied. At number one is bullying because of appearance, which can include "perceived sexual orientation and gender identity as well as other issues," says bullying prevention expert Dr. David Hall.
Were you bullied in school for being gay, lesbian, bi or trans or because other kids thought you were gay? Tell us your story. How can we prevent bullying in schools? Lets Talk About Bullying
Were you bullied in school for being gay, lesbian, bi or trans or because other kids thought you were gay? Tell us your story. How can we prevent bullying in schools? Lets Talk About Bullying
Being gay
- I'm an openly gay 15 year old male. I live in a small town of about 4500 people. It's a huge farming community and I am the only openl gay person in the whole town. I am bullied everyday. I hate that it happens and some times I wish I could hide my sexuality again but I won't. Because maybe just maybe I can give people in my high school that are still in the closet a chance to come out. Me and a really good friend just started tO make a gay straight alliance it's really hard because this I s a really religious conservative community but we are hoping we will make it work
- —Guest Tre
It's Not Fair
- If the abuse in school is bad, it's often worse outside of school where there is no adult supervision. I am not gay, but my cousin and I were friends with a gay guy in her class during my junior year of high school. During school, he wasn't made fun of much, but outside of school kids would throw things at him, calling him "fag". It was these same kids who in school were the honor roll students, the ones all the teachers loved. I didn't understand how people could be so hateful, how they could be so cruel to someone they barely knew. After graduation, he cut off ties with everyone. It was painful to see that happening, to see someone so miserable that he cut everything and everyone out of his life that even remotely reminded him of the torment he endured from kids at our school. I haven't seen him in almost 2 years, but I hope he reads this, and even if he doesn't make the connection that it's me, it helps him anyway. Heck, I just hope this helps someone. Bullying makes me sick.
- —Guest Anna
Bullys
- I'm being bullied at highschool because I joke around with gay ppl on facebook but I have never once been serious about gay or bi, mostly I'm lonely and broken after my girl started to date 40 year old men but now a friend took my iPhone and found everything and this mexican kid went around school telling all his friends I'm not gay at all idk how many times I have to say in not gay and I'm not denial I'm just not gay yet people accuse me of being gay I dress emo but lotta of my friends dress similiar and they are not gay. But I don't know what to do now it's been 2 days so far since everyone thinks I'm gay except my closest friends know for a fact I'm straight. Email me for suggestions to fix this...
- —Guest Straight person12345
:(
- Hello. I am 13 and get bullied everyday at school. Everyone thinks I'm gay andI think I am since I have gay thoughts about guys I like. 99% of my friends are girls and that makes it worse. Another thing is that I am a socialite and people then think I am annoying. I also do weird things and ppl and teachers get mad saying that all I want is attention when all I want is one very close friend. It doesn't even have to be a partner, just a best friend. I am a little chubby and dress rlly generic so ppl use that against me too, making it worse. I play online games to vent and twice I said I wanted to kill myself and the cops showed up. I told them I didn't mean it, when I rlly wish that I had done something. It scars my family life cuz I always fight with my parents and I'm guessing they suspect stuff cuz of my attitude and how I take forever in the bathroom. All I wish is to get out of this hellhole. No one knows, and I don't want anyone to know, but I just want this to stop!!!!!! :(
- —Guest I'm talking on this blog
What should I do
- I've been gay my whole life, took me a while to realize it. But I'm gay. I've had gay experiences. And one day i decided to tell my friend. She goes to a different school. The next day after I told my friend my secret. I was asked about it. I was shocked. How did people that go to a different school than my friend hear about this. Well she told one person my secret. Then the word got OUT. School to school. My name was beginning to be written in every bathroom at school. People were writing gay slurs about me on my papers and projects. I'ts a daily thing for me. And it is unfair. I just want somebody to love. Why should it be this hard. I feel like i shouldn't even show my face in the hallways anymore because i know the first thought that pops in everybodies mind. Hes gay, and probably some other rumors made up about me. I'm tired of it, and BTW I'm still in the closet....I want to keep it like this because high school kids cannot handle the truth. THey are very immature. And Im sick of
- —Guest NOT IMPORTANT
dont hurt youreself :(
- i have been asked once or twice about baing a lezbial or bi. i never let it bother me until one of my best friends asked me about it. she reallt hurt me when she did that because ya kno ur best friends beleiveing rumors that they kno arnt true. that day she told everyone i waz, even tho im not, & then i went home after harrrasment & found an old peice of glass. you can probly guess the next part. but anyways im only 14 & the bullying haz barily started, whats gana happen when i get in highschool ?
- —Guest moo-kay-la
The FAG
- There's this boy in my class and he's gay. He's only told me because I'm one of the only accepting people in our school. But my guy friends are really mean to him. I tell them to stop and it makes me furious, but they just keep going. They wrote in big letters, "Robert is a FAG!" on his locker. I don't know what to do for him. He's getting really upset and he already attempted suicide. What can I do?
- —Guest Jillian
Being bullied
- I get bullied alot usually everyday I'm 13 and people think I'm gay which I am not I have nothing wrong with gay people but I don't want to be one cause I'm not and whatever i do other guys touch me make fun of me and all this crap and I wanted to do suicide before and I haven't told my parents cause I'm to scrare they might think I'm gay :(
- —Guest James
bullied for 10 years
- I was bullied for about 11 years, first it was my collegues, when I was 15yo until 19yo then it was my family until 26yo.. I never fighted back, I was always enduring quietly all that pain. I'm almost 29yo now, I did good in my professional life and I'm independent but my personal life is a mess because I still can't trust people anymore. I am very lonely. I left far away my country and my family and I tried to bee happy but I often realize that being bullied for so long has changed me a lot.. I wish it was never happened to me
- —Guest m@r
bullied for being a bisexual girl
- I am constantly bullied at school due to my sexuality and when I stand up to talk in lesson people repeatedly chant the word lesbian although they no I am bi. Also my parents won't accept the fact that I'm bisexual even though it was so hard for me to tell them. Recently I have been thinking that I am more of a bicurious lesbian but for now I'm going to keep saying I'm bi and hope people accept me for who I am. There are no other bisexual or lesbian girls at my school but a straight girl I like has been hinting that she isn't sure I'd she is straight or not and we are going swimming tomorrow so I'm hoping something will happen between us x
- —Guest natashaarcher
School Bullied
- I never identified myself as being gay and certainly did not think so of myself throughout my school years. I felt a little different from other kids but never actually associated it with being gay. I didn't have a happy time during my growing years as I was bullied regualrly. I was teased with the usual offensive names and words associated with being gay, BJ, nancy boy etc being the nicer ones. It got to the point where I didn't look forward to attending school and missed quite a lot of class time. I'd been beaten up many times and was scared of walking to and from school. I didn't do well and my results were inadequate to go to University so could not continue with my carreer dreams until I turned thirty and returned to studies as an adult. Although I identify myself as gay now, I could not understand then, why other kids thought I was. I think as a result of the fears caused by bullying, I couldn't admit to my sexuality till now. I'm 48.
- —frankvel1
worried
- I am a 15 almost 16 year old submissive homosexaul teen with really low self esteem. Over all i think i do a good job covering up my sexuality only being asked if I am gay by 2 or 3 people ever school I've been to. at the school i am now at only about 10 of my closest friends know that I am gay. slowly it kills me inside to go around pretenting that I like girls to protect me from the "red necks" in the small town I live in. I also have not told my mom or dad. mainly because i have told her so many times that I was not gay that it seems too late to tell her, reading stories about people being bullied, rejection, family problems with this stuff, depression, and most importantly love. I hope one day everthing works out, with my luck it won't.
- —Guest raven
i need help bad
- i need help because alot of people be mean to me i dont like it at all i have some is my friends some time they be mean to me i always get hurt always cry all the time i dont like it any more i go to northside high school i am a 9th garde it hurts so bad for me i need help so bad
- —Guest stephanie
im a girl wrestler
- I'm a junior in highschool and ever since 6th grade I've been bullied. when I got to highschool it got worse, I would get tampons thrown at me, pushed out of the bathroom, kicked in the vagina,name calling, and hated by lots of homophobes. I dressed differently, I joined the wrestling team. I got pretty good. I felt like I had a goal in life. But then on the last week of school, guys that always messed with me grabbed me after a fire drill and pulled me in the dugout at our baseball field. I was terrified, 3 guys all overpowered me, and I did fight. But they still punched and kicked me, then they pulled of my shirt and pants and underwear. They were like oh it IS a girl. Then they said they'd treat me like a man and did some things. I was in soo much pain. This happened in my sophomore year too. I never told anyone because I felt helpless, nor did I trust anyone except my gf, who is the best thing that ever happened to me.I do have issues with those guys still, all I think about when they do hurt me like before is the singer Pink and how much I love her. It helps, but it still hurts. I need to get help but I don't want people to know what happened to me. Hopefully things will get better. But I like who I am and nothing can change that
- —shelbyroarks
Re Gay Bullying
- A useful book that could include the dynamics of certain types of homophobic bullying: 'Games People Play' by Eric Berne, written in 1960's.
- —JOHN.E
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