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Eight days ago, Joel Burns delivered to his Fort Worth city council colleagues the “It Gets Better” speech since heard ’round the world. Today, he went on Ellen DeGeneres’s show to discuss what the host calls a “real and raw and moving” moment. Burns’s mother, who was in the audience, discusses her reaction to her son’s speech. To which Joel responds, with a smile and a slight quiver in his voice, “Don’t make me cry again.”
