"Murders" is how the center's executive director, Chris Bartlett, characterized the deaths.
Clementi, 18, from the Bergen County town of Ridgewood, N.J., jumped off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River last month after his roommate and a friend secretly recorded his sexual encounter with a man and streamed it on the Web, prosecutors allege.
Dharun Ravi of Plainsboro, N.J., and Molly W. Wei of Princeton, both 18, were each charged with two counts of invasion of privacy for their alleged actions involving Clementi on Sept. 19. Ravi was also charged with two more counts of invasion of privacy for allegedly trying to view and transmit another encounter involving Clementi on Sept. 21.
His death renewed a long-running national discussion on cyberbullying and the invasiveness of the Internet.
In Philadelphia on Sunday, more than 120 men and women took a break from Outfest activities at 4 p.m. to gather in the ballroom of the community center for the somber remembrance of Clementi, an accomplished violinist, and young men and women from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas, California, and Indiana whose personal anguish, like his, had grown unbearable.
Bartlett told the audience it had a "responsibility . . . to create that vision of lives that are worth living" for gay youth.
The Philadelphia School District could play a more effective role in furthering that, Lazin asserted, by better enforcing its policies on harassment and discrimination.
"Gay pejoratives are used daily in Philadelphia public schools without any disciplinary action," Lazin said before the vigil.
For two years the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender advisory committee of the school board has asked for and not received a meeting with Schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman.
