Ok.. This isn't going to be a proper diary. But I just watched this video
and it was the most moving video I have ever seen.
Joel Burns is Council member for District 9 in Foth Worth , Texas. He, is himself gay, married to the man he loves.
His impassioned speech moved me to tears.
He talked about some of the young people who have been bullied to death and then told a bit of his story before breaking down.
Joel broke down then, and acknowledged that he couldn’t actually bring himself to read aloud the next couple of sentences he had written that described his own near suicide attempt. “I, don’t want my mother and father to have to bear the pain of having to hear … hear me say the …” He couldn’t finish the sentence.
At the end he said to his parents
"I am alive today because you loved me".
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Joel Burns and, his husband, J.D. Angle