Homosexual students in the Pittsburgh area have opened up and expressed their opinions pertaining to the recent suicides of homosexual males.The most popular discussed involves Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old freshman at Rutgers University, who jumped from the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River on Sept. 22due to harassment regarding his sexuality from two other students. The two students’ explicitly mocked Clementi’s sexual encounter with another homosexual male in his dorm room. His suicide has caused major controversy throughout the news and throughout gay communities across the country.The recent tragedy has not been the only occurrence of suicide caused by harassment due to sexuality. Zach Harrington, a 19 year old from Norman, Ok., committed suicide on Oct. 10, 2010 due to a local council meeting he attended where board members directed homophobic slurs at Harrington. The council met to discuss whether the city should recognize October as LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transsexual) History Month.There have also been national reports of other alleged homosexual students taking their lives due to harassment of their sexuality. Thirteen-year-old Seth Walsh from California, 13-year-old Asher Brown from Texas, 15-year-old Billy Lucas from Indiana and 19-year-old Raymond Chase from Rhode Island all took their lives due to harassment of their sexuality, according to The Huffington Post.Recent reports conclude that many homosexual teenage students are committing suicide to make the nation recognize the cruelty and injustice homosexual citizens receive. In a recent survey by the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network, 7,261 middle and high school students found nearly 9 out of 10 LGBT students experienced harassment at school, according to The Eastern Echo.Transgendered and gay 16-year-old student from Woodland Hills High School in Pittsburgh C. Baker said she has felt harassment her whole life from other students and feels society needs to be more open to sexual preference.”I went through four to five years of being harassed for being gay and transgendered and it only made my life harder for me,” she said. “People need to learn to see things from other angles and realize how much damage harassment can do.”Sixteen-year-old Robert Polachek, also from Woodland Hills, an open homosexual student, focuses his view on the families in these students’ lives and their support for their sexuality. Polachek also said he is grateful for the support his family and friends give him.”I thought that the suicides that took place last month could have been avoided if these kids had had support from their families and friends or at least were understood better,” Polachek said. “It also made me think how lucky I was to have people in my life that cared enough about me and let me know that, no matter what, life can get better and it is worth living.”In the United States, homosexuality revolves around ignorance, mainly because most citizens do not understand the life of a homosexual male or female. The idea of homosexuality in our nation has such a negative connotation to it because of frequent national intolerance.A bisexual student of the Pittsburgh area, who would like to remain anonymous to avoid any harassment of her sexuality, believes people are extremely judgmental and ignorant to homosexuality and are afraid to understand different sexual preferences.”We live in an extremely judgmental society, especially among teenagers, who are often afraid of the things they don’t understand or can’t really imagine or relate to,” she said.Supporters and members of the LGBT Nation hope for national acceptance of homosexuality in the future.”It’s so sad that people just like me aren’t able to feel accepted in this day and age,” Polachek said.