A group of students at the City College of San Francisco have raised more than $20,000 in two days to hold a funeral for their late friend whose estranged parents did not claim his remains.

Daine Grey, 22, took his own life earlier this month, not long after coming out publicly as transgender, according to NBC News.

Grey's parents had disowned him after he came out, according to the GoFundMe page.

After Grey’s death, the manager of the CCSF Queer Resource Center, Lady Katerina, contacted the San Francisco coroner’s office, who informed her that Grey’s body had not been claimed, according to NBC.

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“Our Queer Community lost one of their bright stars,” Katerina wrote on the GoFundMe page. “As of of July 16th his parents, who have disowned him, have been notified have yet to claim the body. Tomorrow is day 10 of parents not responding to SF Coroner and as a community we can claim the body.”

“We need help in providing Final Dignity Rites for Daine,” she wrote. “As you know funeral expenses are expensive especially when someone had nothing.”

The group set out to raise $17,000 to cover a casked, burial clothes, funeral services and a final resting place, according to the GoFundMe page.

NBC News contacted Grey’s estranged mother, Stephanie Haught, who said that she had not spoken to Grey in years, and did not know he was transgender until days before his death. She has reportedly contacted Lady Katerina and plans to take part in the funeral service.