So, for an essay I have to write in English class, I wanted to write an essay on bullying, but talk more in depth about LGBT bullying, and talk about how it is becoming an epidemic worldwide. So if you feel comfortable in doing so, I would greatly appreciate any stories, experiences and so forth, that you have had with bullying, either at school, on the job, or somewhere else. I used to deal with bullying when I was younger, but ever since middle school, I've been able to keep out of that, and am glad I have done so. So I don't really have any LGBT bullying stories that I could use. Again, I would greatly appreciate any experiences if you are comfortable sharing. Thanks! ~ Bryan
Well bullying happened to me when i first came to my school.Only from guys though,they used to call me gay and other related words which i dont wanna talk about right now.The bullying was only with words,nothing more nothing less.The problem is that i lost a friend like that,we were like best friends but,his friends started to tell him about me,so he didnt talk to me again,sometimes we talk but i ignore him.Anyway the next years the bullying dissapeared,dont know why though,maybe cause i got many friends that support me.
This thread should have a trigger warning I think. Okay, I've basically been bullied all my life, until the age of about 15. For about a year when I was 8/9 years old, I started living as a guy in school, but my parents told the teachers that I 'wasn't really a boy', and the teachers didn't like me and told all of the children. I spent that school year getting some of the worst bullying I could get, from general isolation to physical bullying. Everyone referred to me as 'it'. Including some of the teachers. I ran away from that school multiple times, and I only had about 60% attendance, having faked illness the rest of the time. Eventually, I tried to kill myself. Having failed, I refused to go back to that school, and spent the remainder of the year (about 12 weeks) getting 'homeschooled' by my parents (who were completely incompetent). From when I was twelve to fifteen, I experienced a lot of verbal bullying and isolation. Everyone thought I was gay, and that was part of what they focused on. I got completely depressed and suicidal. Recently, since joining a training course to try and get into work, and coming out as bisexual there, I've had a few people be jerks, and stand on street corners calling me names. I'm cool with that though, it doesn't seem to affect me like it used to. Hope that helps.
Ok, well I was in a catholic private elementary school when I was younger. I was called gay in grade 3 by other classmates becuase their parents said I was a "homosexual" and to not hang out with me I was made fun of called names bullied...... I eventually went to just a private school not catholic oriented becuase the bullying got so out of hand. The kid here were a bit nicer I was still made fun off called gay faggot. Eventually high school came along I was still in private high school..... I made friends with a lot of people I ended up losing a ton of weight and people thought I was hotter I had my nose job I was feeling awesome. I still had people call me faggot get in to arguments with me an things but I wa popular I was one of the richest kids in school ( that helped a lot ) I had parties all the time is invite over a 100 people more probably came, I was having fun. I never let anyone know I was gay of course like I said I always had people making fun of me except being popular I had tons of friends so no matter what people said I felt great I was feeling hot cool I didn't care. Eventually I became the bully and that got me kicked out of private school I was getting in fight with students arguments they sai I had a huge sense of entitlement that is what the principal told me :/ so I went to a public high school. That was..... Wow totally different experience. There were really poor families there I had never been around people like that so coming to a school and coming from a multi millionaire family was.... Very different. I felt so out of place I didn't make friends for a while becuase people made fun of me. I have. Very distinct high voice and I have gay tendencies people can alway tell I had people ask me and I was so embarrassed being porcelain hire ad blushing when asked a question doesn't help. I was bullied again called fagot I even got beat up by another student he pushed me down the Stairs little did he know messing with my family would end up in a criminal record and a restraining order and he had to go to anger management course and he had to leave the school. Anyways after that people heard what happened and people found out about my family people started wanting to be my friend and I was totally ok with It at the time, once again I had friends I wa popular people knew me I felt amazing again I was throwing parties again an once again I ended up bullying people who were gay. Which I feel terrible for now I even went as far as t take them out and apologize. It's amazing how a little bit of power can go to your head let me tell you I know. And you want to know what? I am no longer friends with any of those people great friends hey?
Hey , I'm more than happy in telling my bullying story. Note : At this time I was NOT out. I was bullied a lot in comprehensive , people used to jump me , say these nasty comments all the time , constantly getting bullied being called gay. In year 9 it finally got the point where I didn't go in to school for most of the year , I only went in for 2 weeks then refused to go. My mom doesn't even know I got bullied , but it got to the point I started self harming and trying to take my own life. I remember once my childhood best friend said to my brother I was getting bullied and he told my mom , I completely denied it cause I was so scared. She said was it because of my dad (Divorced and he's not even a dad to me , to be a dad you have to act like one to be one) , I just broke down and started crying in her arms. She doesn't even know what he done , my brother said to her he used to beat us but she said "Well , where was I?" , exactly, where were you? Anyway back to my school bullying. I've took overdoses twice , fell asleep but nothing happened. It took something like trying taking my own life twice to finally realize why the Hell am I even letting them get to me ? They're not important to me and I live for me and me alone they're not worth my time. So when I went back in year 10 it was still happening but I just never looked at them or gave them the time of day , they're just not worth it. But because of that I still have confidence issues. I'm currently in college and the people I talked to left (Gutted) , I'm just lucky I'm with genuinely nice people (Only 7 of us left in the class) , they are kind of bitchy but I know who it is. They're so opposite to me , but still they're kind of helping me and they don't know it. ^^ Sorry for the biiiiiiiig paragraph. O_____________o
I've been misgendered, called "it" along with "dyke" by classmates among other pretty insults. I can't use the bathrooms at school out of fear. I'm mocked pretty much daily by the student population at my high school, and I'll most likely have to drop out once I start hormones. Trans* individuals are definitely not treated with anything close to respect in a public environment like education facilities.
I was bullied in elementry school by this one kid who loved to get under my skin. Lasted for about 3 years until in 5th he moved. With him out of my life, i able to move on and since then i haven't looked back, i still wonder what happened to him
I think we all have taken at least one racistic comment in our lives...I do almost everyday.Being the "butch type" of lesbian(if that's how you wanna call it) my sexuality is kinda exposed which is really uncomfortable in this small society I live in.I really hate having to hide it while it's so obvious to everybody. From what I heard though it can't really get much worse than highschool so I'm just gonna wait and see...
I was bullied in school for telling twins i fancied them. It spread round school like wildfire. It was only mental abuse but it was very horrible and got me very depressed.
I'd have though the title and original post would be enough of a trigger warning, but yeah it probably should regardless. I've never been bullied for being queer [I'm still closeted], but have seen someone I know get treated pretty badly after being outed.
Oops. I've just noticed 'LGBT bullying stories' but I've already posted this and it's not about homophobia so I thought I'd forewarn you if you're only looking for that, you shouldn't waste your time reading this because it's insanely long and there's none of that in it. From 1st through 4th grade I was occasionally bullied by boys for not reciprocating their feelings. In 5th grade I was called a lesbian a lot, in 6th grade I was called many things (sexual references) and some of my classmates (boys) kept randomly pushing pornographic images in front of me and made innuendos all the time. From 7th through 12th grade I was bullied daily for not having any friends (I 'ended my friendship' with a girl because she invited me to her house and I got scared people would call me a lesbian again..), then I was bullied for not having the 'right' clothes, for existing, then for being anorexic, some of the teachers joined in as well. In one class they (the teachers with some of my classmates) were discussing right in front of me how people lose weight and some of the illnesses related to it and kept making jokes about very thin people, repeatedly. Once someone literally stood in front of me and told me I was not going anywhere until I'd heard what she wanted to say. She basically told me to just shove it (the food) down my throat and be grateful for it. After that my bingeing started. I ate with the purpose of rupturing my stomach and die from it. I started self harming. My classmates kept shoving their meals under my nose because they knew I wasn't eating things like that... My forearms were full of scars so I had them wrapped in gauze (or a very similar strechy material) at all times and no one, no one ever mentioned it to me. Of course they talked about it, and me being so thin, but when I walked into a room, they all fell silent. I hated that and I hated how everyone was always so very careful and quiet while they were talking to me. As if I was mentally unstable and a wrong word could set me off and kill myself. That was another thing. Everyone assumed, well they assumed loads of things but they seemed to think that I was 'dangerous'. To others. I can't tell you how much that hurt me. That they'd think one day I'd just go crazy and kill them...That was probably one of the most hurtful things they told me, and they've told me a few... One of my classmates kept saying I looked like death and that I scared her, because according to her I had a deadly stare. That I looked dead. Allegedly. Another one told me I looked like a starving Ethiopian child.. for some reason that made me very happy at the time but I didn't believe her, I didn't think I was thin enough to be called that. But most of all, I wished I was African, because if I was black, I'd look even thinner... Then when I started to gain weight, I was bullied for it. During classes, during recess, in the hallways. The teachers said nothing when someone shouted in class how fat I got. Some of the boys kept pinching and poking me and jiggling the fat on my arms. And people, including teachers, always made remarks about me and I never knew what they meant. Did they mean by that I was thin, or fat? I never believed when someone said I was thin. But there were certain remarks that would have been very hard to misunderstand. Like when a teacher disgustedly looked at me and said 'For god's sake just eat!' or when that same teacher before the christmas holidays gave me double the amount of chocolate she gave to my classmates with a hopeful smile and an encouraging 'Make sure you eat them'. Well...this is my experience with bullying in a nutshell. Sorry, it's very long.:icon_redf If you're interested, I could go into more detail and I'm sure I could recall many other incidents. P.S. I apologize for any mistakes, I've done some editing which almost always guarantees some grammatical errors.
I was in autoshop during the very first phase of my transition from male to female and a few of the boys went up to me and said that I was creepy and to stop looking at them. Then everyone else chimed in and said the same. Class was almost over so by the time the bell rang so when I was in the hall I started crying.
never really happened to me before, i did get bullied but not because i was gay. since i hid that fact pretty well, i didn't have much trouble. i have seen it before, guys used to push around the gay guys in my school, the ones that wear their pants down all the time. as i moved onto high school, i see those kind of guys dropped out, change, commit suicide, troubled, struggled, all kinds of trouble. there was this one time where i was talking to a guy and i did an essay on lgbt bullying and how it can lead to suicide(i stated that there were other issues as well that caused it but it was more in common with lgbt related. my main focus was on homophobia) i read the essay in front of class, everyone looked at me if i was crazy, so i gave them a pretty cold stare back (as im told i have one) and no one said or really asked one word about it. i guess that showed the kind of people there are right? after class ended, the gay guy who got bullied around sometimes, just came up to me and said "thanks, i really appreciate what you're doing and i will remember that". he dropped out around junior year? sophomore? because the school wasn't really willing to do anything about it. i guess i was only one of the few who was trying to fight for it without any means of violence
