Seth Owen, the gay valedictorian who made headlines last year when GoFundMe donors helped him achieve his dream of attending Georgetown University, has created a scholarship organization for other LGBTQ students with volatile home situations. Pride50
, the gay valedictorian who made headlines last year when GoFundMe donors helped him achieve his dream of attending Georgetown University, has created a scholarship organization for other LGBTQ students with volatile home situations.After Owen’s father discovered a picture of Seth with a boyfriend on his son’s phone, he questioned him “all night.” Shortly thereafter, Owen’s parents sent him to a Christian counselor for conversion therapy.
Owen said he started experiencing symptoms of depression and suicidal ideation, but a turning point came in his senior year of high school when his parents started attending a church with an anti-LGBTQ pastor. He told his father he didn’t want to attend the church, and his father responded “biblically, we have the right to stone you for what you’re saying,” according to Owen.
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