in high school he was captain of the swim team and “an academic all-star”. when he was a sophomore his father, while spending hours going through seth’s phone, found a photo of him kissing his first boyfriend, and his parents “questioned him all night”. his parents then sent him for a controversial practice, conversion therapy with a christian counselor, with the intention of making seth heterosexual. seth later said the most toxic aspect of the ordeal was that he “desperately wanted it to work, just so i could survive life at home”.