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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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While there are many reasons my child isn't allowed to use the word gay in a negative sense (or out anyone! positive or not) this is one of the reasons. And I was incredibly happy when he reported another 3rd grader was calling boys gay in the bathroom and he looked at him and said "I am not gay, but if I was it would be ok and if anyone in here is gay, it is ok. You shouldn't be saying things that you mean to hurt people with" Sadly, where I live I can assure you being called gay wouldn't be considered bullying. It would be considered correcting bad behavior.