A 12-year-old boy got the birthday surprise of his young life as a crowd of strangers from the local community came to celebrate his birthday after he was rejected by his friends.
Brody Neville’s friends, from both the school and in the community, turned their backs on him earlier this year after he came out as gay.
That made the prospect of celebrating his birthday this year a sad one for Brody’s mother, Leah O’Donnell. “I was asking him what he wanted to do for his birthday and he was in tears and said since he came out as gay he lost all his friends, so he didn’t even have people who could come,” O’Donnell said.
O’Donnell refused to let her son down, so she reached out to people on Facebook in the hope of rallying some people to cheer