Oh lordy no, not another gay teen suicide.

Have you noticed that these are almost always boys? I believe it’s because of the masculinity patrol, which can be, quite literally, deadly.

E.J. Graff writes on social-justice and human-rights issues, particularly discrimination and violence against women and children; marriage and family policy; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives. She is a resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center and the author of What Is Marriage For? The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution (Beacon Press, 1999, 2004).