His Name Was Justice

Remembering a Anthony Colin, who made his high school a safer place for gay kids:

Colin finally had enough. Spurred by the murder of Matthew Shepard a year earlier, he decided to form a Gay-Straight Alliance club on campus, so he and anyone else at El Modena would have a place, even for a little while, that was free from hostility. Similar GSA groups were beginning to pop up on high-school campuses all around the country at the time—including one at Fountain Valley High, which this year celebrated its 20th anniversary—so, Colin thought, why not one at ElMo?

Jessie Colin thought it was a fantastic idea.

But there couldn’t have been a worse place to try to get one started.

Author: Rich Kane
Source: OC Weekly
Published: Dec 5, 2013
Length: 15 minutes (3,846 words)