Celeb News: Suicidal Gay Teen Gave Gaga's BTW Foundation $500

Twai

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I would like $500 donated to the Born This Way Foundation. Thank you so much, Lady Gaga, for being the fearless, relentless, proud LGBTQ advocate the world needs. You make me so proud. You are my biggest inspiration. Continue to light the fire that illuminates the darkness in so many lives.

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Raised in an extremist Christian household, assaulted in classroom with a teacher present, EricJames Borges, 19, of Visalia, Calif., was repeatedly bullied, tormented and terrorized for the duration of his childhood and teen years.

Exorcisms, beatings and extreme Christianity pervaded his young life and did not “cure” him. “Disgusting, perverted, unnatural and going to hell” is what his parents told him as he was kicked out of his home.

Just last month, EricJames made a video for the “It Gets Better” project, a campaign that features personal hope-filled videos to LGBT teens to get them through difficult times. Although he said “it gets better” and asked other teens to “ never give up,” he could not live through the extensive damage to his psyche and the pain that life had brought to him. On Jan., 14, 2012, EricJames committed suicide, shocking his friends and his co-workers at The Trevor Project.

Never before had the sound of “Edge of Glory” been so inconceivable; EricJames Borges chose Lady Gaga, and not only for the echo that would pave his heavenly journey but as a benefactor, leaving the last of his life’s dealings to his icon.

Five hundred dollars would go to Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, $500 to the Trevor Project, $521.56 to the Human Rights Campaign and almost $2,500 to his rescuer, Jennifer McGuire, for her upcoming same-sex wedding. “I want it to go where it deserves; to life, love and equality.”

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pika

Monster

This is touching.

omgitsralph

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Originally posted by pika

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You bothered.

Icing

Exorcisms?

ChrisRTW

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Originally posted by pika

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Typical trashy remark

Twai

This is why I get angry when people tell me Gaga has no effect on gay rights. Even if she wasn't able to save this kid's life, Gaga was clearly a very bright spot in a horrible existence. Think about all of the ones she DOES keep from killing themselves?

Wilkes

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Haus_of_Will

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Originally posted by pika

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It's sad that this melancholic story ended so tragically.

Thisisit

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Exorcisms, beatings and extreme Christianity pervaded his young life and did not “cure” him. “Disgusting, perverted, unnatural and going to hell” is what his parents told him as he was kicked out of his home.

This is a reason to become depressed, not some locker room teasing. Poor guy.

Twai

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Originally posted by Thisisit

This is a reason to become depressed, not some locker room teaser. Poor guy.

Except if you watch his video, he talks about being teased at school too.

The government/school can't do anything about his parents calling him evil at home. But they sure as **** can and should do something about the people harassing him at school.

Can you imagine what it'd be like to get it from home as well as school? If we can reduce the assault in one of those places, shouldn't we try?

TheRealBabyDre

hairofglory

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Exorcisms, beatings and extreme Christianity pervaded his young life and did not “cure” him.

I can't even begin to imagine all the lasting psychological effects this might have had on him.

RIP.

Thisisit

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Originally posted by Twai

This is why I get angry when people tell me Gaga has no effect on gay rights. Even if she wasn't able to save this kid's life, Gaga was clearly a very bright spot in a horrible existence. Think about all of the ones she DOES keep from killing themselves?

You are confusing gay rights with gays killing themselves. Lady Gaga has done **** all for gay rights or social gay acceptance. Bless her for trying though.

JoshBTW

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Exorcisms, beatings and extreme Christianity pervaded his young life and did not “cure” him. “Disgusting, perverted, unnatural and going to hell” is what his parents told him as he was kicked out of his home.

21st century! Twenty-****ing-first century for ****s sake.

Thisisit

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Originally posted by Twai

Except if you watch his video, he talks about being teased at school too.

The government/school can't do anything about his parents calling him evil at home. But they sure as **** can and should do something about the people harassing him at school.

Can you imagine what it'd be like to get it from home as well as school? If we can reduce the assault in one of those places, shouldn't we try?

The government can do plenty about his parents beating him at home. And feeling unsafe and unwelcome at home is a thousand times worse than feeling unsafe and unwelcome at school.

Jameson Teqkilla

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Originally posted by Thisisit

You are confusing gay rights with gays killing themselves. Lady Gaga has done **** all for gay rights or social gay acceptance. Bless her for trying though.

Uh, did you miss DADT or something?

MusicLoverDude

Its really sad how people the gay teens that supported the It Gets Better Project are now killing themselves.

I'm mad as well about that. We're supposed to be showing the gay teens that life GETS BETTER and to NOT kill themselves...and then we see gay teens that supported it give up and just end their lives. It's sad and it makes me SO angry!

Gui Blackout

What are the goals of this "Foundation"?