Turns out Queerty was right when they reported that gay Minnesota teen Lance Lundsten killed himself, months before Lundsten’s official cause of death was determined. Who needs a toxicology report when you’ve got Queerty?
This morning, they celebrate their psychic abilities journalism skills with a single graph write-up on the tragic suicide. If only the coroner had been reading Queerty back in January.
Lance Lundsten, gay the 18-year-old Minnesota high schooler who took his own life in January, has now “officially” taken his own life: the medical examiner has ruled his death a suicide. Shortly after his death, Lance’s father was pushing an “enlarged heart” theory as what took Lance’s life. Still unknown: Whether his family will declare Lance suffered anti-gay bullying at school, which led to his death.
The claim that a grieving father was attempting to influence public opinion or manipulate the media or “push” a theory (a theory that, while not the actual cause of death, was in fact true; Lundsten did have an enlarged heart) in the aftermath of his teenage son’s death is probably one of the more disgusting, shameful things that Queerty has ever published, and this is the same website that ran weekly live blogs of The A-List: New York. The author of the post, “JD,” (really, no last name?) even closes with a taunt to the family and another unproven accusation, that Lundsten was bullied. The widely read, mainstream gay blog that is supposedly against anti-gay bullying is bullying the family of a dead gay teen.
Queerty is one catchy slogan on a sign away from being the Westboro Baptist Church of the internet.
A copycat suicide is defined as an emulation of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media.
The massive wave of emulation suicides after a widely publicized suicide is known as the Werther effect, following Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.[1]
The well-known suicide serves as a model, in the absence of protective factors, for the next suicide. This is referred to as suicide contagion.[2] They occasionally spread through a school system, through a community, or in terms of a celebrity suicide wave, nationally. This is called a suicide cluster.[2] Examples of celebrities whose suicides have inspired suicide clusters include the Japanese musicians Yukiko Okada and Hide.
To prevent this type of suicide, it is customary in some countries for the media to discourage suicide reports except in special cases.
Would anybody like to count the times that Queerty screams SUICIDE, SUICIDE, SUICDE?
It seems like Queerty is not going to rest until it causes a suicide, which would just make them so happy.
F H8 has some good t-shirts in there store!!! Just what In the same HELL did FH8 do and why are they being loped in with Queerty? And Reders’ Digest version what did Queerty do? Yes, I read above paragraph ,but I’m not comprehending the full story.
Condolences to James Family,Friends and strangers whom he never met.
Queerty and its “journalists” are good examples of just how differently people go about fighting for gay rights. Queerty and the Fck H8 campaign are examples of how some people think they have to be hit people in the head with a shovel rather than use the shovel to dig their head out of the sand. Unfortunately, we as gay people are often judged by there actions. Like a parent of three being labelled a bad parent because one of the kids is rude and disruptive even if the others are model children, we will always be the most objectionable among us.
Wow. I really should have read over that…”there” should be “their” and the lst sentence should have read “we will always be judged by the most objectionable among us.”