Don’t Be Like The Jerks Who Drove 18-Year-Old Tyler Clementi To Commit Suicide

You may have already heard the tragic story about 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, the talented violinist and Rutgers University freshman who killed himself after his douchey roommate broadcasted Tyler “making out with a dude online.” The douchey roommate and his accomplice (Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei) have been charged with invasion of privacy and could face up to 5 years in prison.
But it has also recently come to light that Tyler had caught his roommate’s second attempt to film him and that he turned to a forum at JustUsBoys.com for advice. Here are his posts from that thread where he uses the screen name cit2mo (CLICK TO ENLARGE).

An employee of BluMedia, which owns JustUsBoys.com, wrote Gawker to say:

JustUsBoys.com does not collect much information when someone creates an account and begins to post, so we cannot confirm cit2mo was Tyler Clementi. However, the IP address for cit2mo does appear to resolve back to Rutgers which reinforces the other evidence that cit2mo and Tyler are the same person.

Tyler’s last post came 15 hours before he jumped to his death from the George Washington bridge into the Hudson River where investigators found and ID’d his body earlier today. Before jumping he posted the following message to his Facebook page, “Jumping off the gw bridge sorry”. He also had an account at Cam4 where other members are now leaving their condolences.
Ravi has now deleted his Twitter account and put his Facebook on lockdown, probably to avoid hate messages and as a poor attempt to avoid prosecution for the incriminating and mocking messages he left broadcasting his roommate’s sexual activities to the world. He’s also been released on $25,000 bail, but even if he’s found innocent for invasion of privacy Forbes Blogger Kashmir Hill says his troubles aren’t over. “In addition to the criminal charges arising from this, there will be civil lawsuits. Rutgers University may find itself the target of a civil lawsuit. And Clementi’s family and perhaps Clementi’s unnamed romantic partner of September 19 will surely sue Ravi, and perhaps Wei, for invasion of privacy.”
We just wanna add that it’s easy to forget that behind every Ask QC is an actual person needing help; sometimes QC is the only place they can turn to because they don’t have many gay friends, need to stay anonymous, and need the advice of experienced men who they can trust and turn to for help so they can avoid bad situations. Many QCommenters offer genuine help and perspective and for that we thank you. But other QCommenters sometimes use Ask QC as a way to mock and call names.
The fun and bitchiness of the web sometimes spurs us to say things to QCommunity strangers that we’d never say to strangers in real life. So please remember many guys come here to safely enjoy their fantasies and ask for help. We welcome lively discussion, but please be civil, courteous, and treat others as you’d like to be treated. If Ravi had extended that same courtesy to Tyler, Tyler might still be alive today.