Where is Bryce Faulkner?
This is heartbreaking, absolutely. I am filled with hopelessness when I read about things like this. We like to think that things have gotten so much better for the GLBT community, then the cold water of reality is thrown. Forced reparative therapy? How under heaven is this allowed to happen in 2009?
Faulkner, 23, was preparing to come out to deeply religious family in Arkansas when his mother discovered his emails to his boyfriend, Travis who lives in Wisconsin. Bryce was given an ultimatum of being kicked out of his family and put out on the street or going into ex-gay therapy. Before Bryce disappeared his boyfriend Travis recieved one last phone call on June 15th and was crying uncontrollably saying, ‘You should have heard the mean and hateful things they said about me. They made me read out loud passages from the Bible’.
Please, Kossacks down South. If you know anything at all about where Bryce might be being held, let us know...
I know that this is not enough material to really qualify as a diary, but the midday open thread has not popped up yet and I wanted everyone to know as soon as I found out about this. Something must be done to stop this barbaric practice.