The first NGS Alliance Day

January 25th, 2012, today, marks the first National Gay-Straight Alliance Day. This event has been designed to enhance the bond between the LGBT community and the straight community in hopes to destroy homophobia and transphobia. Bullying in school has been an enormous problem since the beginning. Once a bully finds a reason to bully, they lock on and never let go. Homosexuality has had a great influence on bullying. There are an estimated 5,000 suicides due to bullying in schools every year, a fraction of this number is bullying because one is homosexuality. Some of the suicides due to bullying because of homosexuality include: Justin Aaberg at age 15 in July 2010, Jamey Rodemeyer at age 14 in September 2011, and Asher Brown at age 13 in September 2010. Hopefully this event NGS Alliance Day will end these young suicides and help promote Gay Rights.