GAY YOUTH COMMITS SUICIDE ONE MONTH AFTER POSTING ‘IT GETS BETTER’ VIDEO

[Danno 1,228]

GAY YOUTH COMMITS SUICIDE ONE MONTH AFTER POSTING ‘IT GETS BETTER’ VIDEO

Only one month after filming an “It Gets Better” video to help inspire young gays and lesbians, 19-year-old Eric James Borges tragically committed suicide. The circumstances surrounding the young filmmaker’s death have not been revealed, although his work showcases that his “coming out” in the last year was extremely difficult.

In his video, Borges discussed intimate details about his life, including an exorcism his mother apparently performed to “cure” him of his homosexuality. He was later told to leave home.

“My anxiety, depression, self-loathing and suicidal thoughts spiked,” he explained. “I had nowhere safe to go, either at home or school… My parents told me that, among other things, I was disgusting, perverted, unnatural and damned to Hell.”

Additionally, he spoke of the abuse he received from peers at school on a daily basis as a result of his perceived homosexuality. He said his situation worsened as he progressed throughout junior and senior high school.

“I was raised in an extremist Christian household,” he said. “My earliest recollections of my experience with the relentless and ongoing bullying was in kindergarten, but of course to a lesser degree.”

In a tragic unfolding of events, at the time of his death, Borges was trying to re-boot his life in San Joaquin Valley, California. The young man was working as an intern at The Trevor Project, an organization that works to prevent suicide among LGBT young people.

A description on the “It Gets Better” video he posted reads:

“It Gets Better Campaign” by EricJames Borges from Visalia, CA. My story is always hard to tell, even in a simplistic condensed form, but, “Many LGBT youth can’t picture what their lives might be like as openly gay adults. They can’t imagine a future for themselves. So let’s show them what our lives are like, let’s show them what the future may hold in store for them.” -ItGetsBetter.org

Watch the video, below:

Edited January 13, 2012 by Danno

[Sofiyya 1,687]

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

wth does that kid have in his ear? It's almost the size of a pie shell.

[luckytxn 2,263]

Poor kid. It would have gotten better. Send a pray his way.

[Susita 175]

That's so sad

[Obama 2012 1,714]

I've said it before, it all begins at home.

School bullying is one thing, internet bullying is one thing, but when the parents are nuts.... a completely different story. Kid doesn't stand a chance.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Poor kid. Sad story. Hope mom and dad are proud of their job being parents.

[The_Dude 1,142]

I think the big question here is, does Danno actually agree with the parents in the OP? I bet he does.

[Danno 1,228]

I've said it before, it all begins at home.

School bullying is one thing, internet bullying is one thing, but when the parents are nuts.... a completely different story. Kid doesn't stand a chance.

It could be this kid came from an unusually cruel family but it is also common for emotionally disturbed people to fabricate or greatly magnify past wrongs done to them.

At some point we may here the families side of what went on, that mostly won't happen until after the interest in the story has dissipated, one would expect.. hope, they are grieving.

These Gay-kid suicides are every bit as common in areas where it has been acceptable to be gay for years now, so I think people are chasing a fantasy if they think these will ever stop, in fact Gay-suicides are but a fraction of young people off'in themselves anyway.

ONe of the most difficult parts of situations like this is you wonder, could he have been pulled in from the edge, reached , helped?

ONly those close to him might know.

[Danno 1,228]

I think the big question here is, does Danno actually agree with the parents in the OP? I bet he does.

I didn't see anything from the parents to agree or disagree with,.

he tells some accounts of what happened, but we don't know what even went on in the house, just what he claimed.

No doubt the parents and family can give more information on what went on.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I've said it before, it all begins at home.

School bullying is one thing, internet bullying is one thing, but when the parents are nuts.... a completely different story. Kid doesn't stand a chance.

What exactly did the parents do wrong? I can remember when my brother was like 14 and got his ear pierced along with a homemade tattoo because his friends were doing it and he wanted to look like a tough guy and my step dad beat his ####### until he couldn't see straight. And my parents were anything but religious. If any of my friends, brothers, cousins, etc... had told thier parents they were homosexual and had sex with other guys they would have gotten beat black and blue right before they got the boot out of the house. That's how it was in our neck of the woods...or it was back then. Hard to say these days...everyone is on that politically correct thing now.

Edited January 14, 2012 by Why_Me

[sandinista! 1,816]

I'm sorry you had to grow up around that :-(

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I'm sorry you had to grow up around that :-(

I came from a blue collar household and a blue collar/farming/logging community as did most in Washington state then. If anything it made us tougher. You gave as good as you got and you didn't whine about it or you got it twice as bad.

[Dan and Judy 614]

Maybe the accutane pushed him over the edge

[Dan and Judy 614]

GAY YOUTH COMMITS SUICIDE ONE MONTH AFTER POSTING ‘IT GETS BETTER’ VIDEO

Only one month after filming an “It Gets Better” video to help inspire young gays and lesbians, 19-year-old Eric James Borges tragically committed suicide. The circumstances surrounding the young filmmaker’s death have not been revealed, although his work showcases that his “coming out” in the last year was extremely difficult.

In his video, Borges discussed intimate details about his life, including an exorcism his mother apparently performed to “cure” him of his homosexuality. He was later told to leave home.

“My anxiety, depression, self-loathing and suicidal thoughts spiked,” he explained. “I had nowhere safe to go, either at home or school… My parents told me that, among other things, I was disgusting, perverted, unnatural and damned to Hell.”

Additionally, he spoke of the abuse he received from peers at school on a daily basis as a result of his perceived homosexuality. He said his situation worsened as he progressed throughout junior and senior high school.

“I was raised in an extremist Christian household,” he said. “My earliest recollections of my experience with the relentless and ongoing bullying was in kindergarten, but of course to a lesser degree.”

In a tragic unfolding of events, at the time of his death, Borges was trying to re-boot his life in San Joaquin Valley, California. The young man was working as an intern at The Trevor Project, an organization that works to prevent suicide among LGBT young people.

A description on the “It Gets Better” video he posted reads:

“It Gets Better Campaign” by EricJames Borges from Visalia, CA. My story is always hard to tell, even in a simplistic condensed form, but, “Many LGBT youth can’t picture what their lives might be like as openly gay adults. They can’t imagine a future for themselves. So let’s show them what our lives are like, let’s show them what the future may hold in store for them.” -ItGetsBetter.org

Watch the video, below: