Holn Whe, Gay Teen Tortured on Grdr Date, Seeks Hate Crime Charg

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• HOW GREG HOLN DID GAY ACCEPTANCE RIGHT ON 'BOYS THE STREET'
• GREG HOLN'S 'BOYS IN THE STREET' CAPTUR A GAY SON'S RELATNSHIP WH HIS UNACCEPTG FATHER
• GREG HOLN GO FROM ‘HOME’ TO ‘STREET’ WH TOUCHG GAY RIGHTS ANTHEM
• SGER GREG HOLN RELEAS TOUCHG GAY-THEMED "BOYS IN THE STREET" VIOBY CAREY O'DONNELLJUNE 18, 2015/1:10 PMBY CAREY O'DONNELLJUNE 18, 2015 / 1:10 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"SGER GREG HOLN RELEAS TOUCHG GAY-THEMED \"BOYS IN THE STREET\" VIO","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-06-18T17:10:15.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-06-18T17:10:15.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"CAREY O'DONNELL"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}UK SGER/SONGWRER GREG HOLN JT RELEASED THE MIC VIO FOR HIS SGLE "BOYS THE STREET," A G OF AGE TALE ABOUT A GAY MAN'S RELATNSHIP WH HIS DISAPPROVG FATHER OVER THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: GAY SGER STEVE GRAND EXPLOR RELATNSHIPS IN NEW “TIME” {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WHEN I WAS YOUNG, MY DADDY TOLD ME I WOULD NEVER AMOUNT TO NOTHG SPECIAL," HOLN SGS. "HE'D SAY, 'YOU'RE THE LAST THG I WANTED, THE LAST THG I NEED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}(OFF TO A CHEERY START.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE VIO SHOWS TWO MANNEQUS, ONE THE FATHER, THE OTHER THE SON, ENGAGED A HEATED DNER TABLE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SONG GO ONTO TO TOUCH ON THE EMBARRASSMENT THIS MAN'S FATHER FELT WHEN OTHER DADS WOULD TELL THEM THEY SAW HIS SON "KISSG BOYS THE STREET."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"STOP KISSG BOYS THE STREET," THE FATHER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FORTUNATELY, AS TIME GO ON HIS "DADDY'S HEART IS A LTLE WARMER," BUT HE "STILL WON'T HUG ME LIKE MY BROTHER, STILL WON'T KISS ME LIKE MY MOTHER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}(THE TEARS ARE WELLG, Y'ALL.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT'S NOT UNTIL THE FATHER IS DYG OF AN UNSPECIFIED ILLNS THAT HE HAS A E TO J MOMENT THAT HIS SON "WASN'T LYG" ABOUT HIS SEXUALY, AND THEN STCTS HIM TO "KEEP KISSG BOYS THE STREETS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN AN TERVIEW WH YAHOO AT THIS YEAR'S SXSW, HOLN SAID THIS SONG WAS PARTLY SPIRED BY HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS OWN STEPFATHER, BUT MOSTLY SPIRED BY THE EXPERIENC OF HIS IENDS. "I WANTED TO TRY AND WRE ABOUT , BEE A LOT OF THEM N’T," HOLN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SONG WAS ORIGALLY RERD FOR THE CHARY PILATN, "EVERYONE IS GAY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WATCH THE GEO VIO BELOW. CHASE THE SUN IS AVAILABLE ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG

HOW GREG HOLN DID GAY ACCEPTANCE RIGHT ON 'BOYS THE STREET'

Greg Holn’s “Boys the Street” is an emotnal acunt of a father g to accept his gay son, but over lunch New York a few weeks before the premiere of s mic vio, Holn sounds a ltle nervo about how will be received. ” Holn wrote “Boys the Street” after Krist Rso and Dannielle Owens-Reid, the -founrs of Everyone Is Gay, an anizatn that supports LGBTQ youth, asked him to ntribute to their 2014 fundraiser pilatn, The Gayt Compilatn Ever Ma II. “What works is that those emotns that he was feelg are very siar to the emotns that somebody feels when they are g om a place of, ‘I’m gay, I’m queer, I’m trans, and I don’t want to tell my father bee my father disapprov.

Bee was clud on the Everyone Is Gay pilatn, “Boys the Street” directly supported an anizatn workg wh LGBTQ youth, and he says he’d like to rerd more songs like “The Lost Boy, ” his 2012 chary sgle that was spired by the story of a Sudane refugee and raised money for the Red Cross.

Brish sger-songwrer Greg Holn tak a heartbreakg look at a father's agmented relatnship wh his openly gay son his latt tune, "Boys the Street. Earlier this year, he scribed "Boys the Street" as a "simple story about a gay kid and his dad" a Yahoo terview, notg, "Some of is [spired by] the relatnship between me and my stepfather. And one of the album’s tracks, a tear-jerkg ballad about a homosexual man ostracized by his disapprovg fay lled “Boys the Street, ” is standg out as a different sort of anthem.

GREG HOLN'S 'BOYS IN THE STREET' CAPTUR A GAY SON'S RELATNSHIP WH HIS UNACCEPTG FATHER

“It’s a simple story about a gay kid and his dad, ” Holn says of the song, which was origally rerd for the chary pilatn Everyone Is Gay.

emotnal acunt of a father g to accept his gay son, but over lunch. and Dannielle Owens-Reid, the -founrs of Everyone Is Gay, an anizatn.

pilatn, The Gayt Compilatn Ever Ma II.

GREG HOLN GO FROM ‘HOME’ TO ‘STREET’ WH TOUCHG GAY RIGHTS ANTHEM

g om a place of, ‘I’m gay, I’m queer, I’m trans, and I don’t want to.

was clud on the Everyone Is Gay pilatn, Boys the Street directly. three songs on A Great Big World's sophomore album When The Morng Com.

SGER GREG HOLN RELEAS TOUCHG GAY-THEMED "BOYS IN THE STREET" VIOBY CAREY O'DONNELLJUNE 18, 2015/1:10 PMBY CAREY O'DONNELLJUNE 18, 2015 / 1:10 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"SGER GREG HOLN RELEAS TOUCHG GAY-THEMED \"BOYS IN THE STREET\" VIO","DATEPUBLISHED":"2015-06-18T17:10:15.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2015-06-18T17:10:15.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"CAREY O'DONNELL"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}UK SGER/SONGWRER GREG HOLN JT RELEASED THE MIC VIO FOR HIS SGLE "BOYS THE STREET," A G OF AGE TALE ABOUT A GAY MAN'S RELATNSHIP WH HIS DISAPPROVG FATHER OVER THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RELATED: GAY SGER STEVE GRAND EXPLOR RELATNSHIPS IN NEW “TIME” {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"WHEN I WAS YOUNG, MY DADDY TOLD ME I WOULD NEVER AMOUNT TO NOTHG SPECIAL," HOLN SGS. "HE'D SAY, 'YOU'RE THE LAST THG I WANTED, THE LAST THG I NEED."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}(OFF TO A CHEERY START.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE VIO SHOWS TWO MANNEQUS, ONE THE FATHER, THE OTHER THE SON, ENGAGED A HEATED DNER TABLE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SONG GO ONTO TO TOUCH ON THE EMBARRASSMENT THIS MAN'S FATHER FELT WHEN OTHER DADS WOULD TELL THEM THEY SAW HIS SON "KISSG BOYS THE STREET."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"STOP KISSG BOYS THE STREET," THE FATHER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FORTUNATELY, AS TIME GO ON HIS "DADDY'S HEART IS A LTLE WARMER," BUT HE "STILL WON'T HUG ME LIKE MY BROTHER, STILL WON'T KISS ME LIKE MY MOTHER."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}(THE TEARS ARE WELLG, Y'ALL.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT'S NOT UNTIL THE FATHER IS DYG OF AN UNSPECIFIED ILLNS THAT HE HAS A E TO J MOMENT THAT HIS SON "WASN'T LYG" ABOUT HIS SEXUALY, AND THEN STCTS HIM TO "KEEP KISSG BOYS THE STREETS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN AN TERVIEW WH YAHOO AT THIS YEAR'S SXSW, HOLN SAID THIS SONG WAS PARTLY SPIRED BY HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS OWN STEPFATHER, BUT MOSTLY SPIRED BY THE EXPERIENC OF HIS IENDS. "I WANTED TO TRY AND WRE ABOUT , BEE A LOT OF THEM N’T," HOLN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE SONG WAS ORIGALLY RERD FOR THE CHARY PILATN, "EVERYONE IS GAY."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WATCH THE GEO VIO BELOW. CHASE THE SUN IS AVAILABLE ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world. Amerin Charl Perez of ABC News is one to particularly note - he published his book 'Confsns of a Gay News Anchorman' (2011) after his oral of beg fired om a posn Florida when he was intified as beg gay. For example, France, there is L'associatn s journalist LGBT, and Ameri there is the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn.

UK sger/songwrer Greg Holn jt released the mic vio for his sgle "Boys the Street, " a g of age tale about a gay man's relatnship wh his disapprovg father over the years. "I wanted to try and wre about , bee a lot of them n’t, " Holn song was origally rerd for the chary pilatn, "Everyone is Gay. The are some of them: Guar, Piano and Greg Holn gay or straight?

HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG

We don't know for a fact whether Greg Holn is gay, bisexual or straight.

73% of all voters thk that Greg Holn is gay (homosexual), 11% voted for straight (heterosexual), and 16% like to thk that Greg Holn is actually bisexual. The album also clus "Boys the Street", which was wrten after he was asked by Everyone Is Gay, an anizatn that supports LGBTQ youth, to ntribute to their 2014 fundraiser pilatn, The Gayt Compilatn Ever Ma II.

Holn -wrote three songs on A Great Big World's sophomore album When The Morng Com (which was released on 13 November 2015): All I Want Is Love, The Future's Right In Front Of Me and When The Morng Com.