Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns reaches out to GLBT teens with a personal story and a message of hope. For more coverage, visit the following links:<br><br>htt [...]

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Openly gay Fort Worth, Texas, City Councilman Joel Burns gave an impassioned plea to youth struggling with their sexual identity during a meeting Tuesday [...]

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Councilman Joel Burns is not a household name in the US, nor in Texas. Maybe not even in his constituency of Fort Worth. But a highly personal and emotional [...]

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Just hours before Tuesday's council meeting in Fort Worth, councilmember Joel Burns prepared a presentation. "A couple of weeks ago, after being bullied in [...]

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The first openly gay candidate elected to public office in Tarrant County, Texas, Joel Burns, made a heartfelt "It Gets Better" speech for LGBT teens at the [...]

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Councilman Joel Burns wants youth, especially gay teens, to know life gets better. Burns, an openly gay man, gave his speech during Tuesday's city council [...]

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At this week's city council meeting, Fort Worth city council member Joel Burns gave an emotional speech about having been bullied in school and considering [...]

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Joel Burns, speaker for Fort Worth city council, talks during a presentation about the controversy regarding recent gay issues in the news hosted by the [...]

Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns: It Gets Better: Joel Burns, an openly gay councilman on the Fort Worth City council, uses his "announcement time" at [...]

13 Oct 2010 Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns broke down at last night's City Council meeting during an emotional personal statement about his own [...]

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13 Oct 2010 "I've never told this story to anyone," said Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns during a meeting last night. The story Burns told was [...]

Fort Worth City Councilman's 'It Gets Better' Speech. Joel Burns breaks down during a speech to the Fort Worth City Council. G Train Service Has Been Interrupted (Forever). There's a reason New Yorkers call this line “The Ghost Train.” [...]

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I went from crying with rage at the video in the post – to crying with pride and love at this Joel Burns video. Amazing. Thank you for sharing Bill! Reply. 36. Joe | October 13, 2010 at 3:44 pm. Wow, the disgusting level of hatred [...]

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Joel Burns discusses the challenges teenagers are facing, the bullying, and the harassment over their sexuality. I empathize with these teens- I experienced hell growing up because of my mother's sexuality. This doesn't take away from [...]

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While telling the deceased teens stories, Joel Burns became choked up and had to pause before continuing. The video is hard to watch without shedding tears of your own. Joel continues, telling teenagers that he too was bullied while [...]

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Yesterday, at a Fort Worth City Council meeting, openly-gay councilman Joel Burns addressed his colleagues about the epidemic of gay-bullying and gay suicides that have taken place during recent months. He also offered a message of hope [...]

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Joel Burns breaks down during a speech to the Fort Worth City Council. I rarely watch videos over 10 minutes long, but I watched all of this. Watch Video › [...]

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Just thought I'd share this link. It's hard not to be affected in some way. Although a recurring universal cliche, I (my view as I cannot speak for anyone. [...]

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Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns broke down at last night's City Council meeting during an emotional personal statement about his own taunting by anti-gay bullies as a teen. "I was cornered after school by some older kids who [...]

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Joel Burns, "It Gets Better". 14 October 2010. This is the best "It Gets Better" movie I have seen so far. I absolutely love every aspect of this. It is raw and full of emotion. What I love even more is that it happens during a city [...]

Nathan Joel Burns. Date of birth. May 7, 1988 (1988-05-07) (age 22) After a few substitute appearances for Adelaide United, Burns finally got his first start against Sydney FC [...]

Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns delivers emotional message to all youth. Follow this link: FW Councilman Offers Hope to GLBT Youth. Related posts: Arlington Councilman Pushing for Teen Curfew · New Technology Offers New Hope For [...]

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I wish I could give Joel the tightest tight hug I could possibly give anyone, stain his chest with my tears. This is all we ask for, to have a chance at life unoppressed and unsuppressed. The kind of life that all straight people, [...]