Billy Wyrsch, 16, of Manahawkin is on a mission to bring Pride to Stafford Township. The #StaffordNJPride Project is a hashtag-driven movement, growing on social media and by way of shirts and stickers, to raise awareness of the local LGBTQ+ community and to share the ideas of love and acceptance.

Wyrsch attends Southern Regional High School, where he will be a senior in the fall. When he came out as gay – which really wasn’t “coming out” so much as it was confirming a rumor, he said – he didn’t necessarily envision that he would become an activist or…