http://sdgln.com/causes/2011/06/17/seth-walsh-project-counter-bullying-california-schools
LOS ANGELES – The Seth Walsh Students’ Rights Project — a major new initiative aimed at eliminating bullying and discrimination in California schools — has been launched by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.
The project particularly looks at harassment directed at lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning students.
The creation of the Seth Walsh project was prompted by the September 2010 suicide of Seth Walsh, 13, an eight-grader at Tehachapi’s Jacobsen Middle School. Since coming out as gay in the sixth grade, Seth was subjected to severe verbal harassment based on his sexual orientation and refusal to conform to traditional gender stereotypes.