suicide watch

We can't wait to watch the "worst superheroes ever" shine,

As part of our effort to profile more authors within the LGBT community, we present Stephanie Schroeder.

For its latest "Give a Damn" PSA, Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Fund has enlisted the help of Judith Light, Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Lily Tomlin, and Parenthood's Mae Whitman to educate people on suicide among LGBT youths.

It's film festival season and Los Angeles' premiere LGBT film extravaganza Outfest kicks off July 7 and runs through July 17 right here in SheWired's back yard. Over the next week or so we'll be posting reviews of Outfest films, so even if you aren't in the LA area, perhaps you can check out the flicks when they hit a film fest near you! First up is the documentary Hit So Hard, about Hole drummer Patty Schemel, and The Wise Kids, a coming of age story set against the backdrop of a conservative Christian church.

Welcome to SheWired's weekly round-up of the most infuriating bits of news from the past seven days. We'll be providing a retrospective on the most heinous, crazy-making bits of anti-LGBT news that came across our radar last week. Our hope in doing this isn't only to darken the skies, but also to sound the alarm about the kind of idiocy that passes for "legitimate commentary" these days. Expect a healthy dose of snark in the following paragraphs — sometimes it's the only way we can get through the day.

Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between homophobia in far-flung countries and that which occurs right here in our own backyard.

Welcome to our weekly round-up of the most infuriating bits of news from the past seven days.

Alison Bechdel’s first graphic memoir, 2006’s Fun Home, about her coming out, her father's sexuality and his presumed suicide, was incredibly difficult to write. But in retrospect it was the easy one. Easy, that is, in comparison to the follow-up. “My father had been dead for 20 years,” Bechdel explains. echdel explains that the negative one was written by Dwight Garner, a critic who had previously praised a collection of her cartoons, Dykes to Watch Out For.

The parents of a high school freshman in Amherst, N.Y., who killed himself told CNN that their son had endured pervasive antigay bullying beginning in fifth grade, both at school and particularly online. Jamey Rodemeyer, 14, committed suicide Monday in the Buffalo, N.Y., suburb. “He had the biggest heart in that little body,” Rodemeyer’s mother, Tracey, told CNN's Anderson Cooper Wednesday. “He was either loved so sincerely or he was bullied. There wasn’t much in between.” Much of the bullying Jamey faced, Tracey Rodemeyer said, occurred not in school but via Facebook and other social media sites. "Because people can access each other in numbers so readily — it’s still accessible for people to do their bullying.”