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

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  Speaker 2: life from the year so far. This is the last
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  Speaker 2: of it, and coming up, we're all aboard the Twinktanic. First, though,
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  Speaker 2: a gay teenager's school graduation speech is going viral, and
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  Speaker 2: there was a hint of what was to come from
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  Speaker 2: the off. My name is Daniel Mattingly, and apparently this
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  Speaker 2: school doesn't know better than to give an angry gay
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  Speaker 2: kid a microphone. Dan the Man there, from Stuart Middle
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  Speaker 2: School in Kentucky in America... The eighth grader, so age
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  Speaker 2: 13 or 14, lost both his parents to cancer. He
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  Speaker 2: wanted to talk about grief and trauma and how it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have to shape you. Would have touched on the
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  Speaker 2: trauma of oppression suffered by young people because of their identities.
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  Speaker 2: But after telling the audience earlier drafts of his speech
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  Speaker 2: were censored for being too negative... he blummin' well went
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  Speaker 2: for it. This school is built on racism, sexism and homophobia.
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  Speaker 1: I encourage everyone here.
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  Speaker 2: Today to stand up for yourself, even if it makes
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  Speaker 2: you sin.
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  Speaker 1: This school is f * * * ing ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel says teachers had told him to speak from the heart,
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  Speaker 2: so he did. Next, an update on classic queer film Priscilla,
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  Speaker 2: Queen of the Desert's next instalment from one of its stars,
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  Speaker 2: Guy Pearce.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the sequel... Right, which is going to be 2020.
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  Speaker 1: What are we now, 26? We'll probably shoot at 27.
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  Speaker 1: It'll come out 28.
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to get in the same shape for
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  Speaker 2: it as you did last time?
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  Speaker 1: How dare you?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to ABC News, the first film back in 1994
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  Speaker 2: saw Guy co-star alongside Hugo Weaving and Taryn Stamp as
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  Speaker 2: two drag queens and a transgender woman crossing the Australian
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  Speaker 2: desert in a tour bus. Stamp died last year, aged 87,
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  Speaker 2: but he's still in the sequel. because he actually shot
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  Speaker 2: all his new scenes two months before he passed away.
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  Speaker 2: The Catholic bishops told an LGBTQ plus conference, homosexuality is
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  Speaker 2: neither a sin nor an illness. See, that is someone
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  Speaker 2: who knows his audience. Roel Vera Lopez has been speaking
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  Speaker 2: at a meeting of the Catholic Rainbow Network of Mexico
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  Speaker 2: and believes sexual identity is an inherent condition of human
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  Speaker 2: nature that must be understood and respected. Also said, being
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  Speaker 2: gay's not a perversion, which I'm slightly disappointed about. Felt
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  Speaker 2: a bit more rock and roll as a pervert. And
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  Speaker 2: Lopes has doubled down following criticism, labelling himself a brother,
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  Speaker 2: pastor and friend of queer people. And we'll wrap up
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  Speaker 2: with a queer, not-safe-for-work reimagining of Titanic. Stephen Lewis wrote Twinktanic,
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  Speaker 2: of painkillers while he worked on it. The train driver
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  Speaker 2: from Nottinghamshire in the UK has come up with a
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  Speaker 2: racy tongue-in-cheek parody, which his friends have described as unhinged
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