Preach it! I'll be publishing a story later today, an interview with a teenage boy who suffered terribly because he was gay and his world was trying to "protect" him.

I spoke to both him and his mother extensively on the telephone just hours after he was discharged from the hospital – for the second time this summer.

He came within minutes of dying.

Powerful homophobic, racist men who say they are trying to protect us are doing the opposite