Boys would often shoulder check Joshua Garner and use homophobic slurs to refer to him as he walked through the hallways at New Berlin Junior High School.
As an eighth-grader, even though he hadn’t told more than a couple of people he was gay, he would regularly wear makeup to school.
Many of the boys in his class made assumptions and bullied him as a result.
One day, the group of boys who constantly picked on him saw him outside after school. They beat him, spit on him and urinated on his backpack.
When Garner got home from school that day, his parents were there. But he couldn’t bring himself to tell them about what happened.
Boys would often shoulder check Joshua Garner and use homophobic slurs to refer to him as he walked through the hallways at New Berlin Junior High School.
As an eighth-grader, even though he hadn t told more than a couple of people he was gay, he would regularly wear makeup to school.
Many of the boys in his class made assumptions and bullied him as a result.
One day, the group of boys who constantly picked on him saw him outside after school. They beat him, spit on him and urinated on his backpack.
When Garner got home from school that day, his parents were there. But he couldn t bring himself to tell them about what happened.