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Why a gay teenager’s graduation speech is going viral · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 6: are taking up vaping? First though, a eight teenager's school
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  Speaker 6: graduation speech is going viral and there was a hint
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  Speaker 6: of what was to come from the off and apparently.
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  Speaker 4: The school doesn't know better than given an ingradated a microphone.
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  Speaker 6: lost both his parents to cancer. He wanted to talk
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  Speaker 6: suffered by young people because of their identities, But after
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  Speaker 6: telling the audience earlier drafts of his speech were censored
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  Speaker 6: for being too negative, he blom and well went for it.
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  Speaker 4: This school has built on racism, sexism, and homophobias. I
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  Speaker 6: The school is so ridiculous, Daniel says. Teachers had told
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  Speaker 6: him to speak from the heart, so he did Pride
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  Speaker 6: to help cope with discrimination and to fit in. Research
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  Speaker 6: from George Mason University in Virginia in the US finds
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  Speaker 6: things like bullying, social isolation, and stigma drive LGBTQ plus
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  Speaker 6: year olds who found vaping was a way to get
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  Speaker 6: acceptance and a sense of belonging, especially when they've been
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  Speaker 6: excluded from other social spaces. Pride Daily and an Australian
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  Speaker 6: children's author's sick of transgender people being a punching bag,
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  Speaker 6: so he's evening up the score a bit. Scott Stewart
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