One online and a drag show on Thursday, June 24, Thursday, June 24, at My Sister's Room in Atlanta from 6-9 p.m.Ī decision has yet to be made on whether or not the boy will remain with children's services, according to WXIA. Director: Rmi Bigot Stars: Nathan Bobet, Rmi Chaudire, Sophie Froissard, Florimont Constant. He will have to confront his fears and desires. Victor decides to take Thomas to an abandoned bridge. Two fundraisers are planned to support the boy. In the burning heat of July, Thomas and Victor, two 14 years old teenagers, are bored to death and want to escape. “I apologized because we didn’t create enough safe spaces to prevent this from happening.” “What I told him on the patio at his home is that you’re loved, we care for you, we got your back,” Barrington-Ward said. They spoke with the mother about raising Black queer children while experiencing poverty. He added, “If you saw that and you didn’t see anything wrong with that, you’re part of the problem.”īarrington-Ward said he sought to connect to the family and did so with Black trans organizer Hope Giselle from Miami. “As a Black queer man, I have experienced some of the same homophobia and some of the same abuse by the hands of people that I love as a child,” Barrington-Ward explained.
He reached out to the family to offer support for the boy. The video appears to show family members hitting the boy, and the word “gay” is seen to be cut in across the side of his head with clippers, according to WXIA.Īctivist and Atlanta city council candidate Devin Barrington-Ward told the outlet, “It popped up on my social media on Friday and when I saw it my heart was broken because I saw a piece of myself in that.”īarrington-Ward is running to represent District 9, where the incident occurred. Now the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services and the Atlanta police are investigating. By all means, in Greek culture, this relationship was considered an education. A 12-year-old boy has been removed from his Atlanta-based home after his mother filmed her family abusing him and shared it on Instagram Live. Dating back to pederasty in Ancient Greece, there has existed a sincere social bond between older gay men and male youth perhaps in the form of today’s bears and twinks where intimacy was mingled with the dispensing of emotional intellect.