Brown was born in Houston , Texas and has three older sisters . He is of Jamaican and Cuban descent . He came out as gay at age 15 . Brown grew up in Coral Springs , Florida and graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in 1999 . Following the shooting at the school in 2018 , Brown became an active member of the Never Again MSD movement started by the students , advocating for new gun safety legislation . He graduated from Florida A&M University , a historically black university , and worked as a social worker for nearly a decade after '' The Real World ''
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