Lady Gaga has sung a tribute to a gay 14-year-old boy who sent her a thank you message before taking his own life after he became the target of bullying.
The singer dedicated her iHeartRadio Music Festival performance of 'Hair' to Jamey Rodemeyer, from Buffalo, New York, after he was yesterday buried by his family.
'I just wanted to take a moment because we lost a little monster this week,' said Lady Gaga in Las Vegas last night.
Jamey, I know you're looking down on us and you're not a victim, you're a lesson to all of us.'
The 14-year-old was a big fan of the singer and sent her a message on Twitter saying 'Bye mother monster, thank you for all you have done, paws up forever,' before he killed himself.
More than 500 people gathered yesterday for the funeral of the teenager who was bullied both at school and online.
Complete strangers were among the mourners who turned out yesterday to support the Rodemeyer family at the service at Saints Peter and Paul Church.
Fellow students drove past the church with trucks and buses covered with signs showing messages of tolerance.
On September 9, Jamey wrote on his Tumblr site: 'I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens. What do I have to do so people will listen to me?'
The day before he wrote: 'No one in my school cares about preventing suicide, while you're the ones calling me [gay slur] and tearing me down.'
He put up a separate post that day letting everyone know it was National Suicide Prevention Week.
But still no one listened.
Last Saturday night he posted a lyric from Lady Gaga's song The Queen on his Facebook page which said: 'Don't forget me when I come crying to heaven's door.'
Jamey was a new student at Williamsville North High School and the student known to have committed suicide there since 2010. Joe Chearmonte, a junior honor student, died in February of last year.
"Funny when you're dead, how people start to listen".
So sad. Rest in peace, Jamey.
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That is so sad. I just got goosebumps looking at those pictures. He was too young. His life hasn't even started. I hope those bullies have nightmares every night thinking about what they cause. This **** has to stop. Ugh! This makes me so mad.
"Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem."
One of my most favorite quotes, and that's why I have never even considered the concept of suicidal because of this simple, yet, powerful quote. It's saddening that he's gone, but at the end of the day, it was his choice.
This is bad. Bullying is unacceptable. The things people say on twitter even to celebrities is just insane..I hope the government does something about it.
Really sad. But it's nice that he had a ton of people around him at the funeral. But as someone mentioned, it's very interesting to think of why they weren't there when he had all these problems and didn't know how to deal with them in any other way besides death.
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