NJ high school's gay valedictorian says speech was 'censored'

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• GAY HIGH SCHOOL VALEDICTORIAN FALLY LIVERS SPEECH HE WAS NIED
• A FLORIDA CLASS PRINT ULDN’T DISCS BEG GAY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATN SPEECH – SO HE TALKED ABOUT HIS CURLY HAIR
• THIS HIGH SCHOOL VALEDICTORIAN WROTE ABOUT BEG GAY IN HIS GRADUATN SPEECH. SCHOOL ADMISTRATORS CANCELED IT.
• NJ HIGH SCHOOL’S GAY VALEDICTORIAN SAYS GRADUATN SPEECH WAS ‘CENSORED’

GAY HIGH SCHOOL VALEDICTORIAN FALLY LIVERS SPEECH HE WAS NIED

Werth claims they did this bee he revealed he is gay his speech. “Once they had read that, once they knew that I was gay, " he said, "they all of a sudn said that they didn’t tst me to give a speech. High school grad uldn't say 'gay' speech, so he did this stead.

The class print at a Florida high school says he wasn’t allowed to share his experience as a gay stunt his graduatn speech or how the state’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law will affect stunts like him, so he talked about somethg else that mak him a ltle different om his classmat – his curly hair. Moricz me out durg his hman year and was the first openly-gay class print at the school, so he felt a rponsibily to addrs the ntroversy.

A FLORIDA CLASS PRINT ULDN’T DISCS BEG GAY HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATN SPEECH – SO HE TALKED ABOUT HIS CURLY HAIR

"Bee beg the gay stunt, I knew that if I didn’t distguish myself I would jt be a nobody and nobody would re about me. That's bee he says he was thkg of g his remarks to e out as gay. "Werth hadn't totally mted to his public g-out ia and admted he expected to have to cut the l about beg gay.

"I told them I’d be willg to take out, but they didn’t tst me, bee that’s when they found out I was gay, " he said. "And bee they knew that I was gay, they chose not to let me give the speech. "In the rough draft of his valedictorian speech, Werth wrote about the stggl he faced g out as gay.

“On my own journey to self-acceptance, I have trekked through the pths of prsn, found that God’s love is endls, and embraced the fact that I’m gay, ” Werth wrote. “Absolutely no one should have to go through what I have gone through simply to e to the ncln that homosexualy is not a s. “I scerely believe that the next generatn of Christians will eradite homophobia the church and proclaim God’s love to the LGBT muny.

THIS HIGH SCHOOL VALEDICTORIAN WROTE ABOUT BEG GAY IN HIS GRADUATN SPEECH. SCHOOL ADMISTRATORS CANCELED IT.

In his sophomore year, they wouldn't let him jo the dance team, spe the ach though Sheboygan Lutheran High School receiv state fundg through Wisns's Private School Choice Programs, the state's Department of Public Instctn nnot "prohib a private school om discrimatg based on sexual orientatn, " a state spokperson told BuzzFeed News. A gay New Jersey high school valedictorian had his microphone cut off the middle of his graduatn speech by a school official who objected to the ntent of the unapproved Dershem graduated om Eastern Regnal High School Voorhe and was liverg his speech to his fellow graduat and atten when the school's prcipal, Dr.

VOORHEES —The valedictorian at Eastern Regnal High School said he was censored by school officials who cut his microphone when he went off script and started talkg about g out as gay durg his hman a vio of the mencement, Bryce Dershem is talkg about feelg alone when his microphone go silent after prcipal Robert Lull walks behd the then walks up to Dershem and appears to take a piece of paper om the podium and the microphone.

The approved speech had removed all of Dershem's referenc to beg gay, battlg mental illns and a eatg disorr bee admistrators said mencement is not a "therapy ssn, " Dersham told NBC Philalphia.

NJ HIGH SCHOOL’S GAY VALEDICTORIAN SAYS GRADUATN SPEECH WAS ‘CENSORED’