My legal name is Duane Anthony Horne, but you may know me as Ollie (please refer to me as such) from EqualityAlley. I've endured excessive amounts of abuse, violence, and misfortune, that have negatively impacted my ability to have my own safe shelter and basic necessities like food and water. However, I've chosen to turn these experiences into learning and healing opportunities for myself and others. While I've been sleeping on someone's floor after my car was stolen, I've spent the last 11 months from December 6th of 2024 through November 17th of 2025 recording an audio series on my old laptop called The Full Story about my experiences to encourage boundaries, discernment, and self-love so that others can avoid enduring the hardships that I have.
The last six years from 2019 through 2025 have been extremely difficult. I've been through two murders that involved gun violence. I'm an asthmatic that's caught covid multiple times. I've been through an extremely tumultuous divorce. I've been assaulted. My education and career were targeted and destroyed because I spoke up for equity and equality. The retaliation I faced annihilated my income. It also eliminated my chance to graduate with a nursing degree that I worked hard for and needed in order to rebuild my life. Because I chose to use my voice, I was left to survive homelessness as a result. While sleeping in my car, I chose to not give up and prioritized my healing instead while building social media platforms to help others feel less alone.
However, when I was finally able to sleep on someone's floor, my car was stolen. I woke up, stepped outside, and my 2014 Honda Accord was gone. The police searched for it, but it was not found in time and was declared a total loss by my previous car insurance company, officially stripping me of my car. For the last six years, I've genuinely been fighting for my life. I just wanted to get justice through the legal system and start over. I also wanted to take care of my health since I have legitimate proof of everything that's happened to me, but I have been silenced, ignored, and discarded.
I've suffered multiple heartbreaking losses while dealing with damage to my overall health and body over the last few months and years. Not only do I need to see several doctors to receive proper medical care and treatment I currently cannot afford, but I also need to be able to re-establish and re-stabilize my life. I have been without my basic needs, and comfort for a very long time, but my resilience has kept me alive.
If you would like to support me, your donation would be greatly appreciated. All proceeds will go to the following:
- $20,000: First, I need medical care and treatment for my health. There are procedures, surgeries, medication, and therapy that I have needed that I've had to survive without, which has been physically painful and stressful.
- $15,000: Second, I need to rebuild my life after so many hardships. I would like to be able to get my own place with food, shelter, and water, and a car again so that I can be safe.
- $75,000: Third, I have to pay off my student loans to achieve financial freedom. People don't understand that having delinquent student loans, which in my case, is due to me being unfairly targeted for speaking out against discrimination, makes it much harder to get an apartment and vehicle in my name alone. I do not have any family I can depend on. I just want to pay off everything from my previous attempt to pursue higher education in Nursing that was thwarted because I spoke out for equity and equality.
- $10,000: Fourth, I would like to turn the audio series I recorded about all of this, The Full Story, into an even larger production to promote positive change, healing, and accountability in this world through developing a written autobiographical series and creating a visual series of art and expression. Both my laptop and my phone I use for filming and editing are over 5 years old with dying batteries that overheat. My studio lights, DSLR camera, and lenses, and portfolios were stolen. I also need the appropriate computer software to continue expanding this project.
If for some reason my story becomes inaccessible, please do not hesitate to contact me, as I will send you the audio files myself, because I want people to know the truth.
This was hard for me to talk about on camera because to be honest, all of this is very traumatic, but I speak about some of it here:
So many people think I'm a wealthy social media influencer with privilege and access to everything I want and need because of my follower counts across social media, but that's never been true. I have always been a real person with a real story and purpose.
Instead of just asking for help, I've used my struggles, healing, and perseverance to inspire and entertain others by sharing my story while giving people the option to support me instead of the responsibility and obligation.
I just want to be able to rebuild my life, continue to heal, and thrive, and your support would mean a lot.
Thank you.