Gay Councilman's Plea to Bullied Teens Goes Viral [View All]

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/10/15/us/AP-US-Gay-Councilman-Bullying.html?_r=1&hp

A city councilman in Fort Worth, Texas, has rocketed into cyberspace prominence in a video pleading with gay teens not to commit suicide and tearfully recounting his own ordeals as a bullied schoolboy.

Councilman Joel Burns made the appeal during a 12-minute speech to the council on Tuesday. In the speech, which was videotaped and put on YouTube, he says gay teens should give themselves a "chance to see how much life will get better."

By Friday afternoon, the video had received more than 500,000 hits on YouTube, and Burns was being lauded on social networking sites.

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Joel Burns tells gay teens "it gets better"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax96cghOnY4&feature=related



Fort Worth City, thank you for electing Joel Burns!