Hats Off: Dad Starts #DanceOn Nonprofit After His Son Gets Taunted For Dancing
The love a father has for his son is truly unbreakable! Jeff & Aimee in the Morning is tipping their hat to this father. Greg Long was absolutely disturbed when…

The love a father has for his son is truly unbreakable! Jeff & Aimee in the Morning is tipping their hat to this father.
Greg Long was absolutely disturbed when his son Jimmy was bullied by classmates for dancing at school.
Jimmy has been competitively dancing since he was six-years-old so when the bullying started when he was 14, his father took matters into his own hands.
Greg created a t-shirt honoring boys who love dancing and started the #DanceOn nonprofit. The nonprofit creates scholarships for dancers in need of financial aid.
"I got to listen to how 8- or 9- or 12-year-olds process that kind of bigotry and (homophobia)," Long said in an interview with TODAY. "Instead of getting angry, I decided to make a T-shirt for them. And I came up with, 'Hey, we're just going to dance on. We're just going to move past this.'"
In 2018, Jimmy spoke about his perseverance at a Michelle Obama event during her "Becoming" memoir book tour.
"I lost it," said Greg Long. "I admittedly had tears coming down my face, because the strength that it takes for somebody like that to stand in front of 20,000 people and say, 'I've been bullied and I'm not going to let it stop me from what I like to do' — it was a proud moment."
Visit #DanceOn website HERE.




