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If things had gone according to plan the first, second, or even third time, Cain Leathers wouldn’t have run 361 miles across the state of Pennsylvania in the name of LGBTQ+ youth last month.
Leathers, 27, tried to take his own life three times since he was 17 years old, having grown up in a small Ohio town with a family that made its feelings toward the LGBTQ+ community loud and clear.
“One of my siblings told me to take my own life in high school,” Leathers told Runner’s World. “They were there to witness one of the attempts.”
But running saved Leathers, he said, and in order to show other youth that they, too, belong and have a voice, he laced up just outside Pittsburgh on the West Virginia border on May 15 and spent 10 days on the road, raising more than $6,000 for The Trevor Project, a national suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth.  If things had gone according to plan the first, second, or even third time, Cain Leathers wouldn’t have run 361 miles across the state of Pennsylvania in the name of LGBTQ+ youth last month.
Leathers, 27, tried to take his own life three times since he was 17 years old, having grown up in a small Ohio town with a family that made its feelings toward the LGBTQ+ community loud and clear.
“One of my siblings told me to take my own life in high school,” Leathers told Runner’s World. “They were there to witness one of the attempts.”
But running saved Leathers, he said, and in order to show other youth that they, too, belong and have a voice, he laced up just outside Pittsburgh on the West Virginia border on May 15 and spent 10 days on the road, raising more than $6,000 for The Trevor Project, a national suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth. |
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