Today marks the beginning of Campus Harmony’s Bully Suicide Project, with the release of their photo shoot by local photographer, Tracy Nanthavongsa. Many people from Youth First Texas played a big part in the shoot as they were the subject of these digital postcards to help stop bullying. Beaux Wellborn is the man behind it all – a volunteer for YFT and a motivational speaker with Campus Harmony. He really had enough of seeing and hearing about kids being bullied, so he decided he’d do his part to help out. That’s how the Bully Suicide Project came about.

The kids involved “jumped at the chance to tell their stories,” says Wellborn. “We have Latina, overweight people, professionals, African-Americans – this hits a market that’s bigger but also, it is our way of still promoting the LGBT movement under this bigger umbrella of discrimination.”

So what’s his personal connection to the project?

“I was bullied myself and almost committed suicide. When we were doing the photo shoot, I realized the kids in these pictures are being bullied right now. Their family was there to show support. It was so humbling and so powerful,” he said.

Check out the amazing, powerful photos from the shoot. Their goal is to put up a PSA on YouTube by the end of the month.

This is just a sample of the pictures, go to their website to view the rest.

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