Gay Teen Filmmaker Eric James Borges Commits Suicide

That kid need help. A lot more help than a video was going to provide.

His sexual preference aside, this young man will leave behind many who loved him. My condolences to his family and friends.

Homosexuals are three times more likely to consider suicide.

Sadly, many people who claim to hate the sin and love the sinner just won't quit persecuting the sinner. Makes me wonder if they actually listen to themselves.

I could make a bunch of jokes now but under these circumstances they would nott be funny. That is a waste. Nobody should suffer emotional or physical abuse, especially when it leads to this. Maybe ribbing among friends and family in the propper setting (I have a gay family member and we love him) I hope we learn sexual orientation is a small part of ones character and we need to look at the person as a whole. Dahmer was gay but would you have wanted him on the street if he wasn't? Of course not his entire being was garbage. This young man was prolly gentle and society killed him after breaking him with abuse. Teach your kids NO BULLYING IS OK. Gay or not. Don't only teach them not to do it but teach them to step in and stop it themselves or tell an adult. I have no respect for bullies. Why don't I get bullied at 6'2 250? Cause bullies are really wimps inside compensating for insecurities.

Eric, I am so sorry this happened to you---you felt a pressure that even your friends did not see. In your short life you changed the lives of many giving hope. Rest In Peace.

I don't know if Homosexual is biological or not, they say it is, and it's not a choice. I am not them, so who am I to tell them how they should feel.

I'm not a Liberal or Atheist, but it's hard to hear that his own parents disowned him...about a year and a half ago, my Daughter told me she was Lesbian, I didn't become angry, or distance myself, I told her "There's nothing wrong with that"...I don't want her to think I don't love her, even though I still don't quite understand the LGBT lifestyle.

~ A Dad

This kid was only 19. Politics is too much for someone of that age to have to deal with, let alone all of the other stuff they have to try and deal with. Look young people. Suicide is not the answer to your problems when things are overwhelming, especially the gay community. The answer to your problems is to just tell people it´s not their business, and you will deal with whatever you wish to deal with when your ready to deal with it, and not before. Gay people need to stop rolling over and playing diplomat. Just tell people your not the boss of what goes on in my life and in my bedroom. Get a life and get out of mine. Trust me, you will feel so much better about yourself if you just stand up for yourself. In no way are you obligated to justify who you are. Remember this. You did not make the choice to be gay. You made the choice to be YOURSELF, and there is nothing wrong with choosing to be who you really are.

If this film maker was against suicide, then what happened?

Too often the sole reason folks get involved in these help groups is to take their minds off their own stuff. Apparently, it did not work for him.

How ironic.

Yes..some Gays are born this way( it is in their genes). Sometimes Babies are born with two sex organs (Male and Female) when they get older some go both ways, Next you have a group of kids who were repeatedly raped by Older Men or Women this can change their mental behavior. I wish bullies would leave them alone...Remember God love them too!

I'm a straight Nerd and I got Nerd baited AND Gay bashed. The Jocks can't tell the Difference! If you're not going with a girl in HS you MUST be "That way"

Very Sad!!!!! I am so sorry "people" would treat a human, like this! No matter who he wants to love or not... I would not judge him, it's not my job! Rest in Peace young one!!!!

Very sad story. RIP

I lost a brillant young friend to suicide in 1977. After all these years I still wonder at what he could have become, such a waste.

Teenage suicide among gay teens is epidemic. It's very sad that someone reaches the point where they feel they have to do this. Blessings to his family and friends.

I hid what I was from grade school on NEVER reacted to anything negative through high school and NEVER EVER let anyone see that side of me...Queen said it best "It's a hard life"Sympathies to his family and friends.

I hate to say it, but I worked in the gay community here in NYC for years and there is such a streak of self loathing in many. Often from the abuse that started their orientation, resulting in a very unhealthy lifestyle desperate to appear positive and fun when it was really just burdening them more with additional shame and self hatred. There really needs to be some honesty in the community, not just image-gathering, so people can get the psychiatric help they need to avoid this, the drugs and random sex. Sorry, but that's the real deal.

Candid Lies says that homosexuality is learned. I am waiting for him to explain how a young man LEARNS to have an erection when he sees a naked man. The attraction is in the mind at a rather basic level. The usual thing for the bigots will say after that is to bring up illegal desires. That is irrelevant. Homosexuality is perfectly legal.

I grew up in the 1940-1960 period when nobody talked about homosexuality and homosexual acts. Where was the teaching that Candid Lies rants about? I was the one that sought out other gays, not the reverse that Candid Lies claims. Other homosexuals of my age group had to do the same thing. Hiding it does not prevent homosexuality, it is just dishonest.

The basic thing is that homosexuals are a protected class, like religion, regardless of whether it is a choice or not.