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Commenters on Towleroad are asking about setting up a fund to help Derrick. Please keep us posted if you hear of any way we can make a donation to help this young man who is a straight A student and volunteer tutor. He needs and deserves our support.
And yeah, a fund set up for Derrick would be nice.
Hang in there, Derrick. Millions of us support you.
While I'm at it I'd love to ask the parents if they think that Jesus would approve of them shunning and abandoning their own son...
And it doesn't make this particular situation any less upsetting. I hope his parents come around and realize that he's their son and not something they can just cast off at will.
Though in high school things would have been much much worse. Glad they didn't find out then.
(ex.) It would be nice if Rachel Maddow made a public show of support, but it would be far more meaningful if Chris Matthews stood up for the kid. This shouldn't be a "gay" issue: it should be a "decent human being" issue.
My first serious boyfriend was kicked out and disowned (and beaten up and tossed out of the house with nothing but the clothes on his back *and* a broken arm). And 15 years later, when I was sitting in his living room, his dad called to apologize and ask him to forgive them.
Don't want to hold out any false hopes, but... even the worst can come around. I'm glad you found a family of choice that gives you joy.
If Dan reads this, Dan, on your radio show years ago, you mentioned that at dinner at Chutney's you'd seen four teenagers nearby and realized that they were a straight couple and gay couple, all on the way to Prom. You told us how you'd gone to the table to tell all four how proud you were of them. This must have been at least 15 years ago.
(BTW Slog readership, later in the show, one of the gay boys phoned in with the rest of that story; when they got up to leave, they discovered that Dan had already settled their whole bill).
Did you ever hear from them again? Their story stuck with me over the years and I've been thinking about them a lot during these few weeks of Constance. Wondering if they were around/speaking up about this, etc.
He has seen how things worked out for Constance and is pushing all his chips into the middle of the table.
He has decided to forgo the usual 'don't out to the folks until they have paid for college' strategy in favor of the 'grab some prom date attention and hope to score $30,000 from Ellen' gambit.
How will it pan out?
Are there another 400,000 close and personal friends to be harvested?
Is America going to OD on fresh rosy cheeked teen homo martyrs ?
Think hard, fanboys- which does Martin need most, a Tea Rose pink coursage or a lab notebook?
Not to worry, the gentle gays always take care of their own: If all else fails, Martin can catch a bus to Atlanta and wait for a chicken hawk to take him underwing.
I wish I believed in heaven/hell, because really, there aught to be a special place in hell for his parents.
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Sure, sure, a joke's a joke. Some aren't very funny.
Nothing like having the IRS breathing down your neck to get the flop-sweat started...
"Martin’s parents have kicked him out..."
Even with "journalism" being what it is, I don't think that a writer would characterize a loving, protecting parent's having sent their child to stay at a friend's house in response to media attention as their having kicked his ass out of their house.
What the hell is wrong with these idiots?
Some schools have policies about clearing dates who are from a different school/locality. My friend's school had one due to someone bringing a date with a few convictions/outstanding warrents who got high and attacked the DJ. They say it's so they can run checks on non-students, but I don't think they ever have, it's just a deterrent to stop anyone trying to bring someone dodgey.
They've never said no to any date under 21 as of yet. No idea why other schools do it.
Please excuse me for confronting your rhetorical point, and join the Period Hive Drone outside the venue on the sidewalk; please no smoking within ten feet of the doors.
The deepest wounds come from people that we have loved and trusted the most.
I was seventeen, and it was the start of my senior year. My parents kicked me out, my friends and family turned their backs, and my community shunned me...it fucked me up; it almost killed me.
Let it go, or like a cancer it will kill you.
Letting it go doesn't mean that you forgive and forget. Letting go means that you no longer bind yourself to them or the experience; free yourself from the past.
The pain and scars will still be there even as they change and, hopefully, diminish over time. Don't ignore them completely unless you want to be tripped up by them, but don't focus and obsess on them either. Own them, change them and use them...don't be owned, changed and used by them.
Unlike, Dan, I encourage you not to hold on to the hope that any who have harmed you will ever apologize and reconcile. Hope can turn to rot over time.
Be free; let them go.
Huh, it looks like LC is staying away from this one. There's no angle in the story to spew the narrative that all gays are child molesters and all child molesters are gay.
What a coward. Not like Derrick. May the wound from this fade and the strength gained last forever.
If they kicked an honor student on the curb for being out and gay, that's a different story.
BULLSHIT.
The parents are Homophobic Bigots
who Hate their own son.
They deserve to be DESTROYED.
Don't be a pussy.
And even if they did deserve extreme treatment, I don't know how many of us here work in law enforcement. Vigilante "justice", the kind advocated for by the Out-of-Their-Ever-Lovin'-Tea-Baggin'-Minds Right, is a sign of anarchic society.
It's when you say things like this, Alleged, that I start thinking that when you go to the zoo, you must buy two tickets: one to get in and one to get out.
You know as well as I do that screwing with these people (like getting them fired, or as you suggest, killing them) is the wrong move.
Anyway, next time you kiss my ass, please a better rim job. Can't you do better than histrionic sarcasm?
(Some schools also have policies against bringing dates above a certain age, I think.)
Even if your school doesn't require bringing a form for a date, its not a bad idea to check ahead of time so you can get legal support, instead of just showing up and hoping you don't get kicked out and beat up.
I wonder if some of these kids want to make a statement, instead of pretending they are just friends. If so, good for them.
Trying to fuck up someone's life because you morally disagree with them is heinous and despicable, no matter which end of the political spectrum may motivate you. If you disagree with that statement you are a moral relativist, which is the worst kind of intellectual laziness.
So you say it's not okay to be gay
Well, I think you're just evil
You're just some racist who can't tie my laces
Your point of view is medieval
Fuck you, fuck you very, very much
'Cause we hate what you do
And we hate your whole crew
So please don't stay in touch
“They never supported my lifestyle, and with all of this attention they thought it best for us to separate, so they told me to leave. It’s OK though. It’s their house. It was mainly because I went public.”
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So sorry, so very sorry. I'm glad that you have found family and are happy.
And, poor Martin. I can't imagine telling either of my children to leave. I can imagine entrusting them into the care of others to protect them, but to tell them to leave because I don't wish for the attention is unthinkable. Then again I can't imagine not supporting my children. Martin is welcome to come live with me.