ABSTRACT
When high school student Eric Mohat was repeatedly targeted with namecalling, teasing, constant pushing, shoving, and hitting in front of school offi cials, they did nothing. Insults and harassment by his peers, mostly in math class, who taunted him by calling him ‘fag, queer, homo, and gay’ were done all too often in front of teachers with no consequences for the students responsible for the bullying (Lenderman 2009). He was a quiet student, involved in theatre and music, he did not self-identify as gay. One day in class, a bully told him ‘why don’t you go home and shoot yourself, no one will miss you’—and he did.
