Hundreds of students walked out of Lee’s Summit High School in Kansas City, Kansas on Monday in support of a gay student who has allegedly faced harassment and severe bullying, which culminated in a recent fight that left one student injured.
A Change.org petition calling for “LGBTQ+ safety at Lee’s Summit High School” had garnered nearly 2,700 signatures as of Monday afternoon.
Danny Lillis, a senior who is openly gay, said that he and his friends have been targeted and bullied by another group of students since the beginning of the school year. “They have given them a hard time for Danny being gay, for him wearing makeup to school, for him expressing himself,” said Melanie Davies, mother of Lillis’ friend Malani Hohlbaugh.