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Another Gay Teen Takes His Life, Tells Mom: ‘You Don’t Know How It Feels To Be Hated’

Another gay teen committed suicide Saturday night, an act spurred by relentless bullying, his family claims. Kenneth Weishuhn Jr. was just 14 years old and a freshman at South O’Brien High School in Paullina, Iowa. After he clame out as gay last month, his friends turned on him, he experienced bullying at school and online, teasing, and even received death threats. “Mom, you don’t know how it feels to be hated,” Kenneth told his mother, Jeannie Chambers. Watch a local report on the tragedy:

A Facebook memorial page is here, and a YouTube tribute is below:

Update:

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Andy Towle points to Weishuhn’s Pinterst page, ‘When I Get Married’: