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• THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
• FLAWED BUT COMPLITED: ‘JOE BELL’ STARS MARK WAHLBERG AS A DAD ON A JOURNEY OF REGRET OVER HIS DEAD, GAY SON
• MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
• JAD BELL'S FATHER, JOE BELL, KILLED WHILE WALKG CROSS COUNTRY FOR TRIBUTE TO DEAD GAY TEEN

THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’

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Based on the book of the same tle by Leroy story of Mary Griffh, gay rights csar, whose teenage son mted suici due to her relig tolerance. In April 2013, Joe Bell left his home La Gran, a small town the northeast rner of Oregon, to walk across the untry honor of his 15-year-old son, Jad, who had died Febary a few weeks after attemptg and his wife, Lola Lathrop, told lol and natnal news outlets at the time that Jad was bullied for beg gay, both onle and at school.

FLAWED BUT COMPLITED: ‘JOE BELL’ STARS MARK WAHLBERG AS A DAD ON A JOURNEY OF REGRET OVER HIS DEAD, GAY SON

He was the only out gay stunt at La Gran High School.

MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR

In addn to beg the only out gay stunt at his school, he was also the only boy on the cheerleadg squad, and Bell told Salon 2013 that he was bullied for said he uld relate to Jad and his story, bee he was also bullied growg up Texas. 19, 2010, Seth Walsh, a gay 13-year-old livg Southern California, died by suici after beg bullied. Three days later, Tyler Clementi, a gay stunt at Rutgers Universy-New Bnswick, killed himself after beg rerd on a webm kissg another man.

To csa agast bullyg after his son is tormented high school for beg gay.

JAD BELL'S FATHER, JOE BELL, KILLED WHILE WALKG CROSS COUNTRY FOR TRIBUTE TO DEAD GAY TEEN

I went to this knowg only 's based on a te story and Wahlberg is walkg across Ameri bee his gay son was bullied. I never even saw the trailer, and to be hont, I held off until there was nothg better to watch to see this film, only to lgh at Wahlberg playg the dad of a gay son (the last actor I'd expect to play that role), and expected to be borg and not even fish the film - based on the reviews I, was I wrong. In January 2013, a gay 15-year-old named Jad Bell, om La Gran, Oregon, hanged himself om a piece of playground equipment and, after beg kept on life support for several weeks, died early Febary that year.

He was a sophomore high school. A gay son and his father who n bond over Lady Gaga lyrics. A gay son who ss on his father’s talks to the public and gets to offer his own criqu, potg out the ways that Joe has settled to a pattern of preachg to the choir: The people showg up at his talks, particularly once he’s gaed notoriety, already know what he’s about, and are already at mimum prepared to hear what he has to say.

But what about the random homophob biker gear that Joe overhears spoutg sual hatred a der, or the people — there are many of them — who have nothg to offer Joe but nontatn?

And the qutns Jad’s ghost pos early the movie — of Joe’s tenncy to avoid the harr battl, failg to nont the homophob he enunters the wild favor of preachg to the choirs of people drawn to his onle phenomenon and, th, plsibly already sympathetic — are never really renciled by eher Joe or the movie. “It’s hard to stand strong plac where there are more church than there are gays, ” a man tendg a gay bar tells Joe after sharg his own g-out story. “I never let him know was OK, ” says Joe, his enunter wh the kdly p who feeds him, a man whose own son, Joe learns, is also gay.

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The homophobic btal killg also served as a talyst for progrs Ameri's laws and the two s that have passed, however, remas batable how far the untry has e sce the shock of that crime. They later nfsed they had "veloped a roe which they'd pretend to be gay to w Matt's nfince, " Marsn said. (MORE: 'Gay panic' fense still ed vlence s may be banned by new feral bill)McKney h Shepard about 20 tim the head and face wh the end of the pistol, Marsn said, before the two stole Shepard's sho, got their tck and drove back to town.

Agast the gay muny until after he grew up to bee very terted ternatnal human rights, particularly women's rights the Middle East and Asia, and he studied polil science, said Marsn. "He said, 'Mom I'm gay.

"Everybody he met, he said, 'Jt to let you know ahead of time, I'm gay, '" Dennis Shepard said.