Chloe Sagal: commits suicide due to harassment

Transgender video game developer Chloe Sagal immolated due to harassment

GAYLES.TV.- The past 23 of June, Chloe Sagal it was immolated. Chloe She had a brilliant mind, was a video game developer who had published independently through crowdfunding. He was only 31 years old and decided to commit suicide because he couldn't take it anymore. The harassment in the networks became unbearable and decided to end everything. Witnesses to the event tried to put out the flames, but by the time he got to the hospital it was too late and he lost his life.

Chloé I was suffering harassment, especially by forum users Kiwi Farm. New York Magazine He called this forum the "largest community of stalkers." In 2013 the numbers of Kiwi Farm They accused her of spending the money she had raised for a crowdfunding project to pay for her sex change operation. A few days before her suicide, the police arrested Sagal for injuring herself because of the harassment she suffered.

According to friends of Chloe, the attacks suffered by the Gamergate they were so strong that they distracted her from her work and progressively affected her mental health, something she did not hide from. "She created lovely video games, built things, volunteered to help after Hurricane Katrina and made an effort to learn to read despite severe dyslexia."Explained a friend of his to a local media.

"My death can not be silent, it has to be strong and political. My whole life, my experience, my education has led to this moment. I only hope trauma and death for my existence. " he wrote in his suicide note.

RIP Chloe.