Jane Clementi’s 18-year-old son Tyler committed suicide in 2010 after a college roommate videotaped him kissing another man. She later said, “I think some people think that sexual orientation can be changed or prayed over. But I know sexual orientation is not up for negotiation. I don’t think my children need to be changed. I think that what needed changing is attitudes, or myself, or maybe some other people I know” (quoted in Zernike, 2012).

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