One Year Later, Gay Teen Reflects On Family's Horrifyingly Violent Reaction To Coming Out, One year afterwards a advancing video documenting a family's acknowledgment to a gay man's advancing out went viral, the victim on the accepting end of this abhorrence is absorption on the experience.
In September 2014, again 20-year-old Daniel Pierce acquaint a video on YouTube that showed a agitated and abashing 5 account in which Pierce's ancestors disowned their adolescent and told him that female is a choice, application adoration as an argument. It took abode in Georgia during what Pierce declared as a "delayed intervention" involving his father, stepmother and grandparents.
A bounded account aperture in Atlanta bent up with the now 21-year-old Pierce endure anniversary to altercate the after-effects of the appalling video and how his activity has afflicted back the incident.
"I feel like I'm talking about anyone else," Pierce said about the advancing out experience. "I feel like I saw this on the account about anyone else."
In the weeks afterwards the video went viral, Pierce's admirer set up a GoFundMe page for Pierce that aloft about $100,000. According to his account with WXIA Atlanta, the money went appear Pierce's medical costs afterwards his ancestors cut off his admission to insurance, and served as donations to Lost-n-Found Youth, a apartment for abandoned anomalous youth, which has, according to Pierce, reportedly apparent an arrival of kids defective abetment over the accomplished year.
“We got a huge beachcomber of kids [using the shelter] because gay alliance got passed, and they had the audacity to appear out," Pierce continued. "They told their family. That night I absent 5 ancestors members. I acquired hundreds of bags of humans that are just like ’We adulation you.’ Humans I will never meet.”
In September 2014, again 20-year-old Daniel Pierce acquaint a video on YouTube that showed a agitated and abashing 5 account in which Pierce's ancestors disowned their adolescent and told him that female is a choice, application adoration as an argument. It took abode in Georgia during what Pierce declared as a "delayed intervention" involving his father, stepmother and grandparents.
A bounded account aperture in Atlanta bent up with the now 21-year-old Pierce endure anniversary to altercate the after-effects of the appalling video and how his activity has afflicted back the incident.
"I feel like I'm talking about anyone else," Pierce said about the advancing out experience. "I feel like I saw this on the account about anyone else."
In the weeks afterwards the video went viral, Pierce's admirer set up a GoFundMe page for Pierce that aloft about $100,000. According to his account with WXIA Atlanta, the money went appear Pierce's medical costs afterwards his ancestors cut off his admission to insurance, and served as donations to Lost-n-Found Youth, a apartment for abandoned anomalous youth, which has, according to Pierce, reportedly apparent an arrival of kids defective abetment over the accomplished year.
“We got a huge beachcomber of kids [using the shelter] because gay alliance got passed, and they had the audacity to appear out," Pierce continued. "They told their family. That night I absent 5 ancestors members. I acquired hundreds of bags of humans that are just like ’We adulation you.’ Humans I will never meet.”
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