Physically abusive Youtube Video shows how not to react when your chil

How not to react when your child tells you that he's gay



This video shows one family’s awful reaction to their child coming out as gay, during which he is kicked out of his home and physically abused.

Featured in the video is 19-year-old Daniel, brought up in a religious household, who tells his parents that he is gay.

On doing so, he is hit, shouted at and told he must move out. He said he was called a “damned queer” and a “piece of shit”.

“I believe in the word of God. And God creates nobody that way, it is a path that you have chosen,” his mother says.

“Since you have chosen that path, we will not support you any longer. You will need to move out and find wherever you can to live and do you want to. I will not let people believe I condone what you do.”

The video was posted to Reddit by Daniel’s boyfriend, username rhythmknight, with the message: “My boyfriend got kicked out of his home and disowned yesterday. It’s been a really traumatic experience for him, and I feel so terrible and angry that this happened.

“Fortunately, he’s living with a friend for now. Seems like he can be there long-term until he’s able to support himself.

“I’m so sad that so many people have to go something like this. For any of you that have, what’s the best way I can support him?”

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help with living costs of the teenager, and at time of publication had raised $19,440 (£11,718).

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One year after a disturbing video doenting a family's reaction to a gay man's coming out went viral, the victim on the receiving end of this hate is reflecting on the experience.

In September 2014, then 20-year-old Daniel Pierce posted a video on YouTube that showed a violent and upsetting five minutes in which Pierce's family disowned their child and told him that sexuality is a choice, using religion as an argument. It took place in Georgia during what Pierce described as a "delayed intervention" involving his father, stepmother and grandparents.

A local news outlet in Atlanta caught up with the now 21-year-old Pierce last week to discuss the aftermath of the horrifying video and how his life has changed since the incident.

"I feel like I'm talking about someone else," Pierce said about the coming out experience. "I feel like I saw this on the news about someone else."

In the weeks after the video went viral, Pierce's boyfriend set up a GoFundMe page for Pierce that raised almost $100,000. According to his interview with WXIA Atlanta, the money went towards Pierce's medical expenses after his family cut off his access to insurance, and served as donations to Lost-n-Found Youth, a shelter for homeless queer youth, which has, according to Pierce, reportedly seen an influx of kids needing assistance over the past year.

“We got a huge wave of kids [using the shelter] because gay marriage got passed, and they had the guts to come out," Pierce continued. "They told their family. That night I lost five family members. I gained hundreds of thousands of people that are just like ’We love you.’ People I will never meet.”

Did you miss the original video doenting Pierce's coming out? You can check it out below but be warned that it contains graphic language and may be disturbing.

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