It Gets Better Library Project

The It Gets Better Project has changed many people’s lives.  We hear it every day – LGBT youth are beginning to feel the change, the acceptance.  They are beginning to believe that it does get better.  With your help, we’ve grown to a community of over 10,000 videos, we’ve funded resources at GLSEN and the Trevor Project, and raised awareness about teenage bullying and ways to help, but our work is not done. Our next goal is to get the It Gets Better Book into every school library across the country so that every bullied child has access to resources and can know that it does get better. Help us reach our goal. Buy a book (or several!) for us to donate to schools across the country.  Each donation of $25 covers one book and if you like, you can pick where we send it: For kids who don’t have access to YouTube or whose schools block web surfing, we needed a different delivery method – so we created the It Gets Better book featuring nearly 100 stories from people who have either made videos or have written essays just for the book. Send a copy of the It Gets Better Book directly to the high school or community library of your choice: http://www.itgetsbetter.org/libraries Thank you so much for your support. Dan Savage and Terry Miller Founders, It Gets Better Project Editors, It Gets Better The Book P.S.  You can pre-order the It Gets Better Book due out March 22nd by clicking here.

It is an abuse of childhood. ... ????

I was checking out what was trending on Twitter earlier on today and came across the name Melanie Philips. I had not heard of her but clicked the link to see what the tweets were about and soon became incensed. She is a writer for (among others) the UK tabloid the Daily Mail (explaining why I had not heard of her) and her latest article "Yes, gays have often been the victims of prejudice. But they now risk becoming the new McCarthyites" is about the 'gay agenda'.

As a lesbian I am looking for all the same rights as anyone else. Not more, not less. Just the same. Because, despite all the things that we can identify to separate ourselves from others, we are actually all the same.

If you want to read the article yourself you can do so here (without bumping up her reader numbers!). After reading it I was compelled to somehow counteract what I had read, and so I signed an online pledge in support of the 'It Gets Better' project. Please do so as well and offer some hope to young LGBTQ people at risk of suicide.

Alot of people think like Melanie Philips, but I like to think most don't.