Bullying of LGBT Youth Continues, with Tragic Consequences
b'Show #1 Hour 1\\n| Guests: Ron Schmidt of BANGLE | Show Summary: Recent suicides of LGBT teens\\nacross the country go largely unnoticed in our media-jaded culture. Angie\\ninterviews educator and author of the memoir Once Removed Ron Schmidt about his\\nexperiences as an out teacher in the California school system. Ron came to terms\\nwith his own homosexuality as an adult after a conflicted Catholic upbringing.\\nHe conquered his own pain and went on to become a resource, friend and guide to\\nisolated and frightened teens in the Morgan Hill Public School System where he\\ntaught for more than a decade, and to organizations and causes around the state\\nand beyond. Ron is a co-founder of the South Bay Chapter of the Bay Area Network\\nof Gay and Lesbian Educators (BANGLE.)'