Follow Up: Lady Gaga Meets With President Obama Over Teen’s Suicide
I want to follow up on the story from yesterday about the young boy who committed suicide because of years of bullying.
Lady Gaga tweeted yesterday that she’s meeting with President Obama following the suicide of gay 14-year-old teen Jamey Rodemeyer, who killed himself last weekend.
Gaga in another tweet: “The past days I’ve spent reflecting, crying, and yelling. I have so much anger. It is hard to feel love when cruelty takes someones life.”
You may recall that Jamey thanked Lady Gaga in his emotional “It Gets Better” video he recorded earlier this year in
which he talked about the bullying he was enduring.
“Lady Gaga, she makes me so happy. She lets me know that I was born this way, and that’s my advice to you, from her, and all you have to do is hold your head up, and you’ll go far.”
Jamey’s mother, Tracy, told CBS News:
“It really just started with all the boys, cause all the girls just loved him and they always defended him, but all the boys would say, ‘Geez you’re such a girl. Why are you hanging out with all those girls? What are you, a girl? Oh, you must be gay’…The bullies now are still walking around. They get to wake up tomorrow and go to school and see all their friends, but my son will not be given a second chance no matter how much I have prayed. I would have given my own life to turn back the minute we seen him.”
Tracy Rodemeyer will bury her son in a t-shirt with a message of acceptance and defiance. It reads simply: “Born this way.”
Omg, I balled so hard when I read this story. I was doing good until the last line when they said his mom was going to bury her son in the “Born This Way” shirt. Wow..that got me! We have to make this stuff illegal before we lose anymore.




















Such a sad story. How many more martyrs before people react?