In the Uned Stat, one of the most succsful mpaigns support of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr rights is "It Gets Better," an onle vio project aimed at offerg msag of hope to young people stgglg wh life as a sexual mory. Now the mpaign is gog worldwi wh more than a dozen affiliat, cludg the first Eastern Europe, Moldova.
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- DO 'IT GETS BETTER' MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR GAY TEENS?
- IT GETS BETTER | GAY PRI CLASSICS MEGAMIX
- ‘IT GETS BETTER’: WISDOM FROM GROWN-UP GAYS AND LBIANS TO BULLIED KIDS
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The It Gets Better Project is a nonprof anizatn wh a missn to uplift, empower, and nnect lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer youth around the globe. — cludg Seth Walsh, 13, and Billy Lus, 15 — spired the gay advice lumnist Dan Savage and his now-hband, Terry Miller, to do somethg.
21, 2010, Savage and Miller talked about the bullyg and rejectn they experienced as gay teens, and how life got better for them the years after high school.
DO 'IT GETS BETTER' MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR GAY TEENS?
The "It Gets Better" Edn of the Gay Pri Hoe Classics, is a re-post origally released 2011. The set has been updated om the origal release. * it gets better gay *
The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavr Surveillance System recently found that lbian, gay and bisexual teens are more than four tim more likely to attempt suici, and that transgenr stunts are at a siarly high risk pared to their non-LGBTQ peers.
IT GETS BETTER | GAY PRI CLASSICS MEGAMIX
In 2019, four years after the legalizatn of same-sex marriage across the U.S., 72 percent of Amerins said homosexualy should be accepted, pared to 49 percent 2007, acrdg to the Pew Rearch Center. The It Gets Better Project’s missn is to uplift, empower, and nnect lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth around the globe.
In this excerpt om Dyg to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformatn of Amerin Sexual Polics, Brett Ktzsch explor the origs of the “It Gets Better” mpaign and how the suicis of Tyler Clementi and other young gay people opened a new nversatn about gay clivy the wir culture. This excerpt has been adapted om the September of 2010, after a strg of wily reported suicis by gay teenagers, sex advice lumnist Dan Savage and his hband Terry Miller gurated the It Gets Better vio mpaign.
‘IT GETS BETTER’: WISDOM FROM GROWN-UP GAYS AND LBIANS TO BULLIED KIDS
In their llaborative vio posted to YouTube, the two men shared a siar story: as teenagers, their peers harassed them bee they were gay. By that time, more than fifty thoand people had created It Gets Better vios and lns more had watched the ttimonials Gets Better had near immediate succs, acrdg to Savage, bee of the untry’s reactn to a gay teenager’s suici the day after the first It Gets Better vio September 22, 2010, Rutgers Universy hman Tyler Clementi jumped to his ath om the Gee Washgton Bridge after his roommate tweeted that he had spied on Clementi when he was engaged a sexual act wh another man.