09-27-2010, 07:32 PM
It Gets Better Project is the brain child of Dan Savage, a gay, syndicated columnist in response to yet another case of a teen suicide after the victim had been bullied because he was gay. Savage thought 'what if we could just talk to these kids for a few minutes and tell them that we've been there too, and it does get better.'
The result is this YouTube channel where he and scores of other gay and lesbian adults, from all walks of life, relate their stories from their teen years and how that life does get better, a lot better.
Here are a couple of videos from the channel, the first is Dan and his partner's video, and the second is one I selected at random to give you a flavor of the Project:
So what do you think?
I grew up on the internet, and when I came out when I was 15, I searched the internet for answers and I think for me something like this would have been a godsend.
Any way thought I would pass this along!
The result is this YouTube channel where he and scores of other gay and lesbian adults, from all walks of life, relate their stories from their teen years and how that life does get better, a lot better.
Here are a couple of videos from the channel, the first is Dan and his partner's video, and the second is one I selected at random to give you a flavor of the Project:
So what do you think?
I grew up on the internet, and when I came out when I was 15, I searched the internet for answers and I think for me something like this would have been a godsend.
Any way thought I would pass this along!