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English: A key topic of this blog certainly is Bullying, and what can be done against it.
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Showing posts with label anti-gay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anti-gay. Show all posts

Monday, May 16, 2011

The Bully Project (2011) - Join the Movement! (auf Deutsch)

Note: English version of this blog here.
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USA 2011

Dokumentation

Regie:
Lee Hirsch

The Bully Project
hatte Premiere beim

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"Ich hatte niemals echte Freunde, die zu mir gehalten und mir geholfen haben ..."

"Unter der Regie des mit dem Sundance- und dem Emmy-Award ausgezeichneten Filmemachers Lee Hirsch wurde  The Bully Project  eine wunderschöne cineastische und von den gezeigten Personen getragene Dokumentation.

Im Zentrum des Films stehen jene, die in dieser Sache viel aufs Spiel setzen,  und deren Geschichten jede eine andere Facette der amerikanischen Schülermobbing-Krise repräsentieren.

The Bully Project  folgt fünf Jugendlichen und Familien über die Dauer eines kompletten Schuljahrs hinweg. Die Geschichten schließen auch zwei Familien ein, die Kinder durch Selbstmord verloren haben, und eine Mutter, die abwarten muss, wie sich das Schicksal ihrer 14-jährigen Tochter entwickelt, die ins Gefängnis kam, weil sie eine Pistole mit in den Schulbus gebracht hatte.

Mit intimen Einblicken in das Zuhause der Jugendlichen, in Klassenzimmer, Schulkantinen und Rektorenbüros, bietet die Dokumentation Einsichten in die oftmals grausame Welt, in der sich das Leben von gemobbten Kindern abspielt. Während Lehrer, die Schulverwaltung, Kinder und Eltern darum ringen, Antworten zu finden, untersucht  The Bully Project  die verheerenden Auswirkungen von Mobbing, die in den Aussagen starker und beherzter Kinder und Jugendlicher zu Tage treten.

Durch die Kraft dieser Geschichten versucht der Film ein Katalysator zu werden für einen Wandel in der Art, wie wir mit Mobbing umgehen - wir, die Eltern, die Lehrer, die Kinder, und die Gesellschaft als Ganzes."

Quelle: http://thebullyproject.com/the-film.html 
Übersetzung: Michael Eckstorm
Viel an zusätzlicher Information auf der Website (in Englisch)

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Link zur offiziellen Website von

"Join the movement  -  schließt Euch der Bewegung an!"


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Bücher zum Thema Bullying / Mobbing:







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Saturday, May 14, 2011

The Bully Project (2011) - Join the Movement!

Anm.: Deutsche Fassung dieses Blogs hier.
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USA 2011

Documentary

Directed by
Lee Hirsch

The Bully Project
premiered at

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"I never had real friends to stick around and help me ..."

"Directed by Sundance and Emmy-award winning filmmaker, Lee Hirsch, The Bully Project is a beautifully cinematic, character-driven documentary.

At its heart are those with huge stakes in this issue whose stories each represent a different facet of America’s bullying crisis. The Bully Project follows five kids and families over the course of a school year. Stories include two families who have lost children to suicide and a mother awaiting the fate of her 14-year-old daughter who has been incarcerated after bringing a gun on her school bus.

With an intimate glimpse into homes, classrooms, cafeterias and principals’ offices, the film offers insight into the often cruel world of the lives of bullied children. As teachers, administrators, kids and parents struggle to find answers, The Bully Project examines the dire consequences of bullying through the testimony of strong and courageous youth.

Through the power of their stories, the film aims to be a catalyst for change in the way we deal with bullying as parents, teachers, children and society as a whole."

(quoted from http://thebullyproject.com/the-film.html - find more info there!)

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Check out the official website of

and join the movement.


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Saturday, October 9, 2010

It is okay if you are gay ... Stop Bullying Now!




This is the follow-up video to

"It will get better - if we do something!"

which is my contribution for the project that was created
by writer and columnist Dan Savage.

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Bullying, brutality and violence against gay kids and teenagers costs lives. Every year, and everywhere in the world.

In 2008, talkshow host Ellen de Generes took up the case of 15 year old Lawrence "Larry" King, an openly gay teenager who had been killed by another teen, just for being gay. Ellen sent out a intense message on her show, calling out for equality, and against ignorance, prejudices and intolerance.

In 2008, this one case was all over the news. In 2009, though, it was the suicide of already two kids that everyone spoke about:

Carl-Joseph Walker-Hoover and Jaheem Herrera, who killed themselves, as they could not take any more suffering from anti-gay picking, teasing and bullying at school.

Carl-Joseph and Jaheem were only 11 years old.

Again, Ellen set an example, by taking up this devastatingly sad topic on her TV show, and by sending out a sensitive and all the same strong and emotional signal to all her viewers.

But 2010 saw even more suicides for anti-gay bullying in the media than the years before. Within only a few weeks and months, four gay teenagers ended their lives, and two more victims were to be mourned still, after Ellen, yet again, spoke out on her show.

With a campaign named "It gets better", initiated by writer and columnist Dan Savage, gay people upload videos, and by that step up and send out a message to kids and teens that it's worth to cling to life, because it holds so much in store for them, and to "tough it out" during High School, during which so much bullying happens.

But this message, this prospect of a better future, is not enough.

All of us need to start taking action, here and now, to support gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender kids and teenagers who get offended, abused and terrorized because they are "different" ... just as well as any other kid that suffers from being bullied needs our help!

We must help them, so they can make it to that future, living their lives and realizing their potential.

We must do all in our power, to stop bullying now!

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Music:
Immediate Music, SERENATA IMMORTALE

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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

It will get better ... if we do something!



This is one of my two contributions to the IT GETS BETTER Project that was initiated on September 21st 2011 by columnist and gay rights activist Dan Savage, in response to the suicide of 15 year old Billy Lucas, from Indiana, who ended his life due to being massively bullied for being gay. Billy's death was one of four cases of bullycide that have been reported about on the news during the last months.

Savage opened a YouTube channel "where Members of the LGBT community upload videos that explain how their lives got better after high school. The idea is to reassure teens who are being bullied because of their sexual orientation that the harassment won’t last forever."
(quoted from
http://mashable.com/2010/10/05/youtube-projects-social-good/ )

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Well, I find the basic idea good, but it leaves a big gap open, that for me (if I were a gay teen struggling with a life full of harassment and abuse every day) would make it hard to come up with new strength and courage, to face my every day misery, without any idea of how to make it through all of that, except "tough it out - it's worth it, because life will get so much better one day."

Therefore, my own video is meant especially to those kids and teens out there who do not bully themselves, and who also are no bullying victims.

I believe that we do not enough, if we only try to send out a message to kids, teenagers and even young adults, who get bullied for either their sexual orientation, or also e.g. for belonging to an ethnic minority or for any other reason, and this message being that life will probably get better some time in the future.

We must offer concrete help and support today, and by that every one of us is needed, too, to do our part for this above mentioned promise will come true!

This means that
"the silent majority"
has to find the courage in themselves
to make a stand against bullies,
and become allies

of those who are
victims of abuse and harassment today.


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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Ellen on bullycide - a message that needs to be heard *everywhere*!





In the wake of a revent series of
several gay American teens
committing suicide
after being harassed and bullied
for being gay
Ellen de Generes sent out this message on her show
on September 30th 2010.

As The Ellen Show is being produced by Warner Bros.,
this video was blocked one day later
for YouTube viewers from Germany
and many other countries outside the US
on copyright grounds.

So I decided to upload this video on my YouTube channel,
like many other YouTubers already did,
to make it accessible for those
who are being kept out by Warner Bros'
narrowminded policy.

Please watch, and share this video, if you like.

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Bullycide? We can't have that!

Not lives have to end - bullying does.

Bullying No Way!

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Day Of Silence (4/16/10)



This is a video made by Alyx,

who runs an awesome channel on YouTube:


AlyxJW


There, he documented his fight against Leukemia,

which he finally won.


In this video here, Alyx spreads a great message.

Maybe you want to join in?



April 16th is the day ... Shhhh!

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Saturday, April 18, 2009

k6tpl, ONE DEAD GAY BOY



Taken from

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Note
This video is not related
to Kel

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k6tpl answers to the video "Homosexuality Is evil and Satanic"



Taken from

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Note
This video is not related
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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Sir Rupert, the gay Knight



SIR RUPERT, THE GAY KNIGHT
by thinkmorepink

This one goes very well with
the train of thoughts in

"A hair in the donut"
and
"Edit to (...)"

Enjoy :-)!

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