Does anyone remember a news story from a few years ago about a kid who was not out as gay because his family was super homophobic, but his parents were secretly monitoring his online activity and found out from that, and kicked him out of the house?

No, but here are a couple of others that briefly mention it: theguardian.com/sustainable-… letgrow.org/teen-phone-monit…

Reading these and they are EXACTLY what I needed! Thank you so much!!!