As far as why he was filming:
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"I thought for myself, for my own protection if something were to happen it would be best to have it on video. I just hit record. I just hit camera and hit record. I just know that I did it for my protection and it kind of all went from there, and the video really speaks for itself," Pierce said.
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And how this came about
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"The video was not posted for people to attack them. I wouldn't want it to happen to me. I wouldn't want it to happen to them. They are still my family and they are in my heart but what happened in that video is very hurtful," he said.
Pierce hopes by seeing that video his family will realize what they lost. He says he came out last October and he believed his stepmother was supportive when he did. Something changed months later.
He says his father, grandparents, step-mother and her sister gathered at their home for what he describes as a "pray the gay away" intervention.
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http://www.11alive.com/story/news/lo...ideo/14829517/