[(Title)] Donors raises more than $60K online to pay for gay valedictorian to go to college.

Seth Owen, 18, graduated from First Coast High School in Jacksonville with a 4.16 GPA.

塞思·欧文，18岁，毕业于雅克松维尔第一海岸高中，获得4.16的GPA。

He had been accepted to Georgetown University, but worried that he wouldn't be able to go, because he couldn't afford tuition and said he couldn't count on his family for financial support, NBC News reported.

据《国家广播公司新闻》报道，他曾经被乔治城大学录取，但因为他负担不起学费而担心无法上学，并说他不能指望家里提供经济支持。

That prompted one of his teachers to set up a fundraising page on the website GoFundMe in an effort to raise money for his first year's tuition at the prestigious D.C. school.

这促使他的一名老师在GoFundMe网站上建立了一个筹资网页，以便筹集资金，支付他D.C.学校第一年的学费。

The page set a fundraising goal of $20,000. As of Tuesday evening, however, the page had raised more than triple its goal, surpassing $60,000.

截至星期二晚上，该网页已经筹得超过目标三倍的金额，超过60,000美元。

Owen's parents discovered he was gay during his sophomore year of high school. It wasn't long after that that he was sent to conversion therapy, he told NBC News.

欧文告诉NBC新闻，他的父母在他高二时发现他是同性恋，不久之后他被送往转化治疗。

In February of this year, Owens asked that his parents allow him to stop attending their church, citing its anti-LGBTQ teachings and rhetoric. He was then given a choice: stay in the church or leave home.

今年2月，欧文要求他的父母允许他停止前往教会，因为教会反对LGBTQ教义和言论。之后欧文被给予一个选择：留在教堂或离开家庭。

Owens told NBC News that he chose to leave for his own sake. It was after that that he received his financial aid package from Georgetown and was hit with the reality that he could not afford to attend.

欧文告诉NBC新闻，他选择了离开家庭。这之后他收到了乔治敦大学的大学助学金，并因无法支付学费而倍受打击。

That's when his biology teacher, Jane Martin, stepped in and created the GoFundMe page.

那时他的生物学老师简·马丁介入并创建了GoFundMe网页。

"Seth was just a kid that really stood out to me,"  she told NBC News. "He was super ambitious and was always trying to go above and beyond to make sure he could be as successful as possible."

“赛斯在我看来是个很优秀的孩子，”她对NBC新闻说，“他雄心壮志，总是努力超越自我，以确保自己能够尽可能成功。”