When a 13 or 14 year old gay kid, or lesbian or bi or trans kid, kills himself, what he’s saying is “I can’t picture a future with enough joy in it to compensate for the pain I’m in now.” And so many isolated and bullied and abused LGBT kids can’t picture those futures for themselves because they don’t know any openly gay people, they’re not around any openly gay people… The difference is for gay kids is…the kid who’s a geek who is straight who is bullied for being a geek doesn’t go home to parents who bully him for being a geek. Home for straight kids is a refuge were you have a shoulder to cry on and parents who are supportive. And then that geeky straight kid isn’t dragged to a church on Sunday where the pastor says, “God hates geeks and sends geeks to hell. And being a geek or a brain or a clarinetist is a perversion and an abomination.