Seth Owen is an 18-year-old young man from Jacksonville, Florida, United States, who ended up living on the streets after being kicked out of his home by his own parents, after they discovered he was homosexual. Speaking to the News4Jax website, the young man said that his parents insisted that he undergo sexual reversal therapy sessions at the church they attend, a method popularly known as “gay cure”. “They kept insisting that I should become heterosexual until an ultimatum arrived, saying: either go to the gay cure or leave home,” he revealed. After days living on the city's overpasses, some of Owen's friends learned about the difficulties he was going through and expressed solidarity in order to help him financially. It was then that the idea of creating an online campaign to help pay for his studies came up, while Seth stayed with friends. Now, according to information from NBC, the virtual “crowdfunding” was a real success, managing to raise 141 thousand dollars, the equivalent of 400 thousand reais. Furthermore, Seth Owen got a one hundred percent scholarship to Georgetown University. With the money donated, he intends to do a good social deed and help other young people who are experiencing the same situation he went through.
