A New Jersey teen who came out during a high school awards ceremony is speaking out about that experience.
Jacob Rudolph, 18, tells MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts he deliberately chose to identify himself as “LGBT” rather than bisexual, gay or straight because he felt “those are the labels of the past, especially in modern times.”
He added, “I think that putting it in a more general term like LGBT is extraordinarily appropriate, even though I’m not a lesbian or transgender.”
Rudolph also tells Roberts, “My high school’s been nothing but supportive… it really wasn’t for me at that point; it was for everybody else in the LGBT community.”
