I've been thinking a lot lately about Brendan Burke and Tyler Clementi, two young men who died seven months apart in 2010.
Clementi was just three weeks into his freshman year at Rutgers University that September when he learned his roommate not only used a webcam to spy on him and another man, but sent out Twitter and text messages alerting and urging others to watch when the man returned to visit Clementi two nights later.
When Clementi found out, he jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge. He was 18 years old.
Burke, 21, died along with a passenger earlier that year when the SUV Burke was driving slid out of control on a desolate stretch of Indiana highway and into the path of an oncoming truck.
Like Clementi, Burke was gay and had only recently come out to his friends and family. His dad, Toronto Maple Leafs president and general manager Brian Burke, not only accepted his son and told him he loved him, but Bleacher Report - Sports & Society
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