Supergirl star Jeremy Jordan and his family have joined forces in an effort to free his 17-year-old cousin Sarah from a facility in Texas where she is being subjected to pray-away-the-gay style “therapy.”
When Sarah’s parents discovered she was planning to go to prom with her girlfriend, they sent her away to the compound for a year of ex-gay therapy. She’s reportedly barred from any contact with the outside world and is doing forced labor every day while also enduring Bible-based “treatment.”
She attempted to run away, but was found and returned to the camp.
My amazing friends & fans, PLEASE help us save my sweet gay cousin Sarah who’s trapped at a boarding facility in TX. https://t.co/mtVHMY1fdI
— Jeremy Jordan (@JeremyMJordan) June 4, 2016
Now Jordan and his family are asking for help to raise funds to cover the legal fees necessary to help get Sarah out of there. They’ve set up a GoFundMe campaign that has already raised over $40,000. Newly out dreamboat Colton Haynes has even contributed a hefty $5,000.
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This absolutely breaks my heart. Pls help Jeremy Jordan’s cousin be her true self. #FreeSarah . Join me & donate. https://t.co/Iroz5nN8W4
— Colton Haynes (@ColtonLHaynes) June 6, 2016
Ex-gay conversion therapy has been in the news lately, as more states ban the practice on minors. The practice is already illegal in Vermont, New Jersey, California, Illinois, Oregon, and the District of Columbia as well as Cincinnati, OH.
As the Jordan clan points out on the GoFundMe page: “Not only does this type of ‘therapy’ not work, mental health professionals from organizations like the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics have found it to be psychologically damaging, especially for minors.”
h/t Just Jared
Ogre Magi
I hate christians sooooooooooooooo much
DDstar1me
Wow! this is terrible. I’ll donate $1.00.
Damianvargas
On the low end, a tv series regular makes between 15-25k an episode (of which his series has 22) and he’s asking for money??
Hussain-TheCanadian
The Gay community in the US needs to push to outlaw “conversion therapies” – This is outrages; with all the money and power that many gay people have, they need to push the politicians to outlaw this torture.
Republicans should be the easiest to deal with, just throw money at them.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
How much money does this clown make compared to the rest of us, and he won’t come off a couple of grand for a lawyer out of his own pocket?
jasentylar
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: you read my mind. He has some nerves asking civilians to pay for his family when he probably makes more than us and Colton Haynes combined.
Hawaiian Kane
This is a parental rights issue. The parents placed their minor child in the facility. Totally legal. No one else’s business. Moreover, I agree that Jordan & family has a lot of balls asking for funding. If they do not have legal standing in the matter, who keeps all the contributed money????
lykeitiz
I would MUCH rather help Jeremy Jordan bust out of his underwear.
Goforit
@Hawaiian Kane: Parental rights my ass. Are you seriously saying that we as a civilized society do not have an obligation to protect a child from mental and physical abuse? Parental rights do not overrule the rights of a child to live free from abuse.
silveroracle
This thing still happens?
Why can’t he pay for it? He’s not exactly poor!
Dave Downunder
@Damianvargas: Parental rights! What about the rights of the child? Just because somebody is a parent doesn’t make them right and shouldn’t allow them to cause harm to their child and that’s what this is, psychological harm.
JessPH
Outlawing these therapies (especially for minors) is a much more important issue to tackle than the whole bathroom issue.
DCguy
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: stated: “How much money does this clown make compared to the rest of us, and he won’t come off a couple of grand for a lawyer out of his own pocket?”
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A couple grand??? Are you kidding?! A lawyer fighting to get a minor away from their parents in a state like that? That case could rack up over $100,000 in legal fees.