19-year-old Eric James Borges from Visalia, California, killed himself on Jan 11, 2012. He was known as EricJames, participated in The Trevor Project and was a supplemental instructor at the College of the Sequoias. It has been reported that EricJames, like so many gay youth, was not accepted by his family and struggled to overcome life’s obstacles alone.
Two months before his death, he posted this video:
He also made an It Gets Better video for The Trevor Project:
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Especially now, with Stephen Harper trying to strip us of our rights, it is paramount that we keep fighting the battle EricJames lost. RIP, babe.
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