• For me, the most obnoxious comment, ironically, came from columnist Dan Savage. Ironic, because Savage founded the highly successful “It Gets Better Project” as a response to the Clementi suicide. “I’m very sorry to say this but it has to be said: Tyler’s own family may bear some responsibility for his decision to end his life,” he wrote in a column that, for good measure, also threw in Clementi’s previous schools and organized religion.
Without a suicide note or a diary or notebooks, this is all speculation of the worst kind. It has since come out that Clementi had an out-gay older brother. There apparently may have been some kind of conflict between Tyler and his mother about his own coming-out. But coming out, especially while still in one’s teens, is always fraught with conflicts and drama. One had only to look at the faces of Clementi’s parents at the trial to know that they deeply loved their son.
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