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http://www.thebostonchannel.com/cnn-news/19141470/detail.html

BOSTON -- Sirdeaner Walker, 44, has been surrounded by family after discovering her son, Carl Walker-Hoover, 11, hanging by an extension cord in the third-floor landing of the family's Northampton Avenue home in Springfield.

Walker said her boy, upset yet again over another bullying episode at school, had committed suicide.

"They were always saying, 'you're gay, you must be gay, you act like a girl,'" said Walker.

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[jkpolk.livejournal.com]

A couple of months ago one of my cousins unexpectedly killed himself. Nobody could figure out why and all his note said was "I'm sick of the lies".

There's speculation he was gay and felt he had to hide it, given a variety of factors.

And even the possibility of that made me so sad. Living in liberalville I find myself thinking we've reached a place where that doesn't happen anymore. The harrassment, the shame... But it's very jarring to see it's not true.