Joe Bell: Directed by Realdo Marc Green. Wh Mark Wahlberg, Reid Miller, Connie Brton, Maxwell Jenks. The te story of a small-town, workg-class father who embarks on a walk across the U.S. to csa agast bullyg after his son is tormented high school for beg gay. Meanwhile, he realiz he is stead missg out on his son's life back at home." data-id="ma
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THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
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Bell was driven by the loss of his son Jad, an openly gay 15-year-old who killed himself after months of beg tormented by bigots at his high school. " That attus don't seemed to have changed much sce Jack and Ennis had to hi their love away is a tragedy of another sort, and 's touched upon a scene at a gay bar where Joe has an awkward nversatn wh a drag performer, and a middle-aged gay man stg across om Joe tells him that the social advanc of the 21st century never left major ci. "Joe Bell" do not appear to have been a rponse to a suggtn by the aforementned fiver that Wahlberg do a film warng about the evils of bigotry, although that se the suggtn was that Wahlberg's character be a racist rather than a homophobe (not that there's never crossover).
After Joe plac a tolerance pamphlet on the table of a uple of homophobic bulli at a tck stop rather than nont them, another character pots out the nundm of his suatn: guys like the on the der are much more need of hearg his msage than the people who turn out to listen to , and that there's no easy way to reach them, much ls get them to open their mds. Such is the irony of all social msage movi, stretchg through "Gentleman's Agreement" (anti-Semism), "Gus Who's Comg to Dner" (racism), "Philalphia" (homophobia) and beyond. To csa agast bullyg after his son is tormented high school for beg gay.
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. He was the only out gay stunt at La Gran High School. 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.