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It's not known why Borges gave up, but if the life legend from his "It Gets Better" video is true, then crushing rejection from beau monde and his own family played a role.

Borges knew he was different since kindergarten: "My name was not Eric, but 'Faggot' ... I was stalked, spit on, ostracized and physically assaulted," he said. In stoned school, Borges said, he was attacked in a classroom in front of a teacher.

Borges said he was raised by "extremist Christians" and that his mother performed an exorcism on him when he was a freshman in college.

A insane woman in Tulare who identified herself as his mother but did not give her name said Borges "is always very loved, very much." Before hanging up, she said she hadn't seen the video.

Borges' paterfamilias did not return telephone calls seeking comment.

The news of Borges' suicide tore through the main San Joaquin Valley's gay and lesbian community via Facebook. Jim Reeves of Visalia, an potent blogger on gay issues in the Valley, posted an item that got picked up by jingoistic gay and lesbian outlets, and then the Huffington Post, he said. The Daily Send in England posted something.

Source: Fresno Bee

by Spicy Cauldron

They may be young, they can even be pretty, but suspect they do not. A request by dirt Pink website has found that gay readers too young to endorse five years ago are more likely to sponsor attention at the next plebiscite shared, and now get another fitlads.com conducted by a popular networking site called subscribers who are courageous and especially former 18-30, found 31 percent said they would choose Tory, compared to 27 percent for exaggeration.

Source: Astonishingly queer intentions: young gays voting Tory | The Spicy ...

by Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk

Another enumerate has suggested that younger gay people will guarantee for the Prudent Fete at the upcoming everyday voting.

A examination by group networking website Fitlads.com, whose readers are masculine and predominantly old between 18 and 30, found that 31 per cent say they will certify Tory, compared to 27 per cent for Dwell on.

Last week, a PinkNews.co.uk ballot found that readers who were too young to opinion five years ago were most meet to franchise Rightist.

These readers are not old enough to call to mind a Tory superintendence, although most will have skilful Sample 28, which banned the "espousal" of homosexuality in schools.

Our sample found that less than 20 per cent of readers voted Tory in the last electing in 2005. However, for all readers, we found that Effort was the top preference at 28 per cent, with the Tories on 25 per cent.

The latest assess, of 2,738 people, found that seven per cent said they would opinion for the British Jingoistic Dinner party. Members of the reception have made thoroughly homophobic statements in the erstwhile.

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