The principal of Twin Peaks Charter Academy High School didn't want anyone to hear 18-year-old class valedictorian Evan Young's graduation speech. Why not? Because Young planned to come out as gay to his classmates—and his parents—during his speech. So Twin Peaks principal BJ Buchmann did what any asshole would do: He canceled Young's speech and outed Young to his parents. The Daily Camera reports:

According to Young and his family, prior to the graduation ceremony, the principal called the student's father, Don Young—who has previously served on the charter school's board of directors—and outed the teen to his parents. "Mr. Buchmann called me and said, 'I've got Evan's speech here. There's two things in it that I don't think are appropriate,'" Don Young, an accountant, recalled. "One was he had mentioned another student's name. And then there was his coming out that he was gay."

That was the first time in Evan Young's life that his parents had been given a clue about his sexual identity... Their son's sexuality, reported to them by their child's principal, was not earthshaking news to Don Young and his wife. "He's Evan, you know?" his father said. "He's never really expressed interest in either (boys or girls). He's just a teenager... But we had no indication beforehand."

Evan was not recognized as valedictorian during the ceremony because why stop at canceling Evan's speech and outing him to his parents before he could come out to them himself? Why not go full asshole on the kid? (A kid with a 4.5 GPA and a scholarship to Rutgers.) But it's only thanks Principal BJ Buchmann's newsworthy assholery that we all get to hear Evan's speech, not just the graduates of Twin Peaks High, and it's a damn good speech:

Now who's going to break it to Principal BJ that Twin Peaks is the name of one of San Francisco's oldest gay bars?