We're gathered here today in our pink shirts

to bring awareness to the fight against breast cancer

here in Fort Worth and across the globe.

But tonight I ask my colleagues indulgence

in allowing me to use my announcement time

to talk briefly about another issue that pulls at my heart.

Ron, would you go ahead and run the parents of Asher Brown,

who you can see above, complain to school officials

in the Cypress Fairbank's ISD outside of Houston,

that their son was being bullied in harassed in school.

The bullies called him Faggot and Queer.

They shoved him, they punched him,

and in spite of his parents' calls to counselors and principals,

the harassment, intimidation, and threats continued.

For years, it continued.

A couple of weeks ago, after being bullied at school,

Asher went home, found his father's gun,

and shot himself in the head.

His father found Asher dead when he came home from work.

Asher was 13 years old.

I'd like for you to look at his face.

Unlike Asher, Indiana teen Billy Lucas,

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