The following is part of an e-mail that Aaron wrote to Brew Maxwell on
October 20, 2002:
Your saga has given me hope and courage. As an example of my new
courage, on Monday afternoon I asked my school bus driver to let me
speak to the busload of students.
I said to them "I am picked on every day in school and even more on this
bus. Yes, I am gay. I am what you have been calling me. I am a fag,
queer, homo and all those other things. I am what I am because I was
born this way. If any of you can change that for me, so that I can be like
you, then please do. If you can’t do that for me, then please just leave me
alone."
The bus driver said "That's tellin' 'em, son."
No one picked on me on the ride home that day and none have since, on
the bus. The news of what I said must have spread around school,
because by Friday the harassment had stopped.
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