[QUOTE="Theokhoth"]Hence this complete disproportionate number of gay teens committing suicide to straight teens.
The project is meant for more than just bullied kids. Straight kids aren't kicked out of heir homes because they're attracted to certain people. They don't have to worry about getting punched or thrown out of a public bar for kissing their loved ones. The word "straight" is not used as an insult on a daily basis. A straight person doesn't have to fight to be recognized as a human being entitled to equality.
If you don't like the movement, shut your ears and go away. Because neither it nor the gays are going to.
MrGeezer
Straight kids get kicked out of their homes all the time, for a ****load of reasons. That's secondary to how persecuted the kid feels.
Sure, the word "straight" isn't used daily as an insult, but the word "n*****" sure as hell is. I've heard that **** all the ****ing time and never got aropund to offing myself, so don't even try to lay some special claim to being the most persecuted.
As far as the disproportionate numbers of gay kids committing suicide, please cite me a credible source which shows a causal link between gay bullying and gay suicides.
Straight people aren't persecuted because they're straight. Or as someone else put it recently: "No one in the history of the world has ever been ashamed of being straight. No one has had rights denied to them just because they were straight. No one has been made to feel worthless just because they were straight. No one has been told they were going to hell just because they were straight. No one has been ostracized from their family just because they were straight. No one has been beaten, murdered, or driven to suicide just because they were straight-or because people assumed they were straight." And the n-word is used too often, I agree. So is the (censored) f-word, so is dyke the negative use of the words queer and gay and other homophobic slurs. But black people don't face legal barriers to equality anymore. Nobody has to "come out" as black. Black people have far better support networks than gay people, because they don't have the the problem gay kids have of being the only person in the school like them. If a teacher hears a genuinely racist comment, that student is punished. That doesn't happen so much with homophobia. A lot of people still see homophobia as an acceptable form of prejudice - or fail to acknowledge it as prejudice at all. 
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