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By Jeremiah Hassel A mayor’s son has spoken out after his father’s suicide following his outing as cross-dresser. Fred “Bubba” Copeland just wanted to make others happy, his son Carter said through tears at his funeral on Thursday — mere days after Bubba took his own life after being outed in a heinous act of hate by a local conservative news organisation that published pictures of him dressing as a woman. “He told me that this was his way of ‘making happy’ was by uplifting as many people as possible during his day,” Carter said before recounting a story of when he and his father went to a loc…