An LGBT group at
the University of Missouri in Columbia is placing
1,752 flags on campus grounds today to memorialize gay,
lesbian, bisexual, and transgender suicides.
An LGBT group at
the University of Missouri in Columbia is placing
1,752 flags on campus grounds today to memorialize gay,
lesbian, bisexual, and transgender suicides.
The flags --
planted at the Carnahan Quad -- represent the number of
suicides that occur each year among members of the LGBTQ
community nationwide. Later in the day, event
participants will remove the flags and write on the
back of them what they will do to help decrease the
amount of LGBT suicides.
According to
Allies in Action, the University of Missouri group
organizing the event, an LGBT person commits suicide every
five hours due to homophobia. (Neal Broverman, The
Advocate)
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