Fort Worth city councilman talks about painful past and tells suicidal gay teens that "it gets better." 

Post Date: 10-15-2010

by: Gryphen at the Immoral Minority

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I am going to forewarn you that I watched this on Lawrence O'Donnell's "The Last Word" yesterday and found myself overcome with emotion several times.

However it is a VERY important speech for people to hear in order to help us understand the pain these young men and women are going through. And since Joel Burns bravely told his extremely painful story to the world in order to help these kids, the least we can do is give him twelve minutes of our day to listen.