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Lady Gaga Sings for Bully Victim Jamey Rodemeyer

Lady Gaga takes action against bullying.

“We lost a Little Monster this week,” Lady Gaga said of 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer at the iHeartRadio music festival on September 24, 2011.

For years, Rodemeyer’s classmates bullied him, largely for being gay.  Unfortunately, committing suicide was a path that would end the bullying, and Rodemeyer took it.

Rodemeyer’s story reached Gaga, who then had this to say on Twitter:

"I am meeting with our President. I will not stop fighting. This must end. Our generation has the power to end it. Trend it #MakeALawForJamey"

Lady Gaga dedicated a performance of Hair to the late Rodemeyer at the festival and had this to say:

"I wrote this record [Hair] about how your identity is really all you've got when you're in school ... so tonight, Jamey, I know you're up there looking at us, and you're not a victim... you're a lesson to all of us.  I know it's a bit of a downer, but sometimes the right thing is more important than the music.

What matters now is that we all recognize that bullying is a problem.  Don’t join in it, but don’t just watch or ignore it (NIMBY).  Make a stand.  Tell an adult.

Most (if not all) victims of bullying share one desire: for the bullying to stop.  If we don’t help them, then they might just end the bullying themselves.