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[TW: This article discusses LGBTQ+ harassment and mentions suicide. If you’re struggling with mental illness or having suicidal thoughts, please call The Trevor Project at 1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678-678.]
Even though he now leads the organization as its CEO and executive director, Amit Paley still remembers his early days with The Trevor Project, starting out as one of its volunteer counselors in 2011. And from that time, one phone call in particular stays with him.
It came in over the crisis line from a young person in a rural, conservative part of middle America.
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