Dan Savage, the Amerin gay-rights activist and one of the forc behd the Rsian vodka boytt, speaks to RFE/RL about what Rsia's LGBT activists n do to fight back agast vlence and reprsn.
Contents:
- U.S. GAY ACTIVIST SAVAGE: 'KEEP CONTROVERSY ROARG' IN RSIA
- LILY SAVAGE’S LEADG ROLE THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
- 'IT GETS BETTER' OFFERS MSAGE OF HOPE TO BULLIED GAY YOUTHS
- DAN SAVAGE: FOR GAY TEENS, LIFE 'GETS BETTER'
- DAN SAVAGE, SPEAKG ON MP, HELPS GAY TEENS FEEL POSIVE ABOUT THEIR LIV
- DAN SAVAGE: FOR GAY TEENS, LIFE 'GETS BETTER'
U.S. GAY ACTIVIST SAVAGE: 'KEEP CONTROVERSY ROARG' IN RSIA
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LILY SAVAGE’S LEADG ROLE THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
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Amerin thor, journalist, and sex-advice lumnist Dan Savage is one of the bt-known gay-rights activists the Uned Stat, and the creator of the global It Gets Better vio mpaign support of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) youth. RFE/RL: You and your partner, Terry Miller, lnched the It Gets Better mpaign 2010 rponse to the suici of a 15-year-old boy who had been bullied by schoolmat for beg gay.
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'IT GETS BETTER' OFFERS MSAGE OF HOPE TO BULLIED GAY YOUTHS
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DAN SAVAGE: FOR GAY TEENS, LIFE 'GETS BETTER'
Syndited sex lumnist Dan Savage spoke about his mpaign to help gay teens realize that although life may seem very hard, will get better. He spoke Statler Hall April 11. (April 12, 2011) * lgbt savage *
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RFE/RL: Rsia has passed a law banng the adoptn of Rsian-born children by gay parents and parents livg untri that allow same-sex marriage.
DAN SAVAGE, SPEAKG ON MP, HELPS GAY TEENS FEEL POSIVE ABOUT THEIR LIV
'The gay and lbian mafia wants our children … wants to homosexualise the whole untry' * lgbt savage *
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Benefs: From June 21- 27, twenty percent of proceeds om the llectn will be donated to The Gay Center. Billed as the biggt ever gay variety show, raised money for Stonewall’s first natnal mpaign for an equal age of nsent – the begng of 10 years of major law reform for lbians and gay men.
DAN SAVAGE: FOR GAY TEENS, LIFE 'GETS BETTER'
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Last fall, syndited lumnist and thor Dan Savage cid he wanted to help after readg numero stori about gay youths beg bullied — some to the pot of suici. See also: Support your gay child. Savage and Miller created a short vio to send the msage that, even if life may seem tough right now for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenred (LGBT) young people, do ed get better.