A project for my college class.

1. Everyday I wake up and question what's real, but I also have a time of remembrance. A time when I am with you on one of our great adventures through life.

2. Larry King 1993-2008 15 yrs old Shot in the head by a classmate during school.

3. Anthony Callao 1993-2011 18 yrs old Beaten to death by strangers on the assumption that he was gay. He was not.

4. Jamey Rodemeyer 1997-2011 14 yrs old Hung himself.

5. Tyler Clementi 1992-2010 18 yrs old Jumped off the George Washington bridge after his roommate broadcasted him being intimate with another man.

6. Seth Walsh 1997-2010 13 yrs old Hung himself.

7. Raymond Chase 1991-2010 19 yrs old Hung himself.

8. Asher Brown 1997-2010 13 yrs old Shot himself.

9. Billy Lucas 1995-2010 15 yrs old Hung himself

10. Cody Barker 1993-2010 17 yrs old Hung himself

11. Harrison Brown 1995-2010 15 yrs old Hung himself

12. Felix Sacco 1993-2010 17 yrs old Jumped off a highway overpass during rush hour traffic.

13. Caleb Nolt 1995-2010 14 yrs old Hung himself. Bullied because he was perceived as gay, he was straight.

14. Zach Harrington 1991-2010 19 yrs old Hung himself

15. Chloe Lacey 1991-2010 19 yrs old Hung herself

16. Haley Fentress 1996-2010 14 yrs old Hung herself

17. Paige Moravetz 1997-2011 14 yrs old Hung herself.

18. Brandon Bitner 1996-2010 14 yrs old Walked 13 miles to the highway and walk in front of a semi.

19. Carl Walker-Hoover 1998-2009 11 yrs old Hung himself

20. 25 percent of lesbians and 20 percent of gay men have actually attempted suicide. Gay males are 6 times more likely to make an attempt then heterosexual males. Lesbians are more than twice as likely to try committing suicide than the heterosexual women in studies. A majority of the suicide attempts by homosexuals take place at age 20 or younger with nearly one-third occurring before age 17. One-third (33.2%) of transgender youth have attempted suicide.

21. On October 8th, 2010 the New York Times ran a story about a 16 year old, four 17 year olds, a 21, 22 and 23 year old going under the name the “Latin King Goonies” luring a 30 year old gay man to an abandoned house. Before the older man got there they targeted two other 17 year olds, beating them and torturing them for being gay. When the older man got there the nine boys tied him up and tortured him through the night. They beat him and burned various parts of his body. The victims names have not been released. Two of the attackers haven’t been found.

22. Phillip Nelson “They were saying that I should die – because I’m gay. They were yelling FAG” They also carved the slur word into the wall inside his apartment and on the front cover of a Bible left at his doorstep.

23. Brandon Patrick "She had it like a butcher’s knife and sawing at my head and I just remember her hand going back and forth, back and forth across my face,” says Patrick.

24. There were 6,604 criminal incidents characterized as hate crimes reported in the United States in 2009, according to an FBI report released.Nearly 19 percent of the crimes were due to a person’s sexual orientation. That is roughly 1254 reported hate crimes committed against Gay and Lesbian Americans in 2009. According to the Gay and Lesbian human rights organization, an estimated 75% of hate crimes against the community go unreported. Many victims remain silent out of fear of losing their jobs or homes in states where Gay and Lesbian Americans are not protected against workplace or housing discrimination. Still others fear retribution from homophobic police officers.