Somehow Dan and I had never met in person until lunch today.
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Dan Savage & Jim McGreevey Talk Christianist Bigotry With Joy Behar
Speaker Nancy Pelosi – It Gets Better
Jersey Shore’s Vinny – It Gets Better
The cast of Jersey Shore is taking part in MTV’s own campaign against bullying. And Dan Savage’s brainchild continues to expand far beyond what he probably imagined.
Read More »Dan Savage: The President’s Message Is Welcome, But Doesn’t Match His Actions
Tweet Of The Day II – Barack Obama
Turtle Creek Chorale – It Gets Better
Clip description: On October 18, 2010, members of Dallas’ Turtle Creek Chorale joined singers from over 30 area religious institutions and students from Southern Methodist University in a performance titled, A Night For Peace. WIth just three rehearsals to prepare, the 300+ “Partners In Harmony” massed chorus offered a full-length concert, which concluded with Bach’s DONA NOBIS PACEM (Grant Us …
Read More »President Obama – It Gets Better
It’s a heartfelt, well-written, and sincerely delivered message. Let’s try to divorce this effort from “the other issue” and talk about what a message like this from the president of the United States might mean to a young queer kid. And once again, let’s thank Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller for what is easily the most successful and …
Read More »Google Staffers – It Gets Better
Secretary Hillary Clinton – It Gets Better
Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus – It Gets Better
JMG reader Jake Stigers sends us this original(ish) song from the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus. Other clips from Chicagoans can be found on Jake’s YouTube channel.
Read More »Dan Savage To White House: Fuck You
“Fuck you, you pack of co-opting cowards. Seriously. You can do a more than offer hope. You have the power to make it better. Right now. Suspend enforcement of DADT. Don’t appeal the decision by a federal judge that declared DADT unconstitutional. Stop defending DOMA in court. Keep your promises. Make it better. And if you’re not going to keep …
Read More »Gay Comics – It Gets Better
Sassy Gay Friend – It Gets Better
Buck Angel – It Gets Better
Jake Shears – It Gets Better
Dan Savage Fires Back
“To the angry folks: I admit that IGBP doesn’t do the impossible. It doesn’t solve the problem of anti-gay bullying, everywhere, all at once, forever. The point of the videos is to give despairing kids in impossible situations a little thing called hope. The point is to let them know that things do get better. For some people things get …
Read More »PREDICTABLE: Navel-Gazing Over-Intellectualizing Queer Theorists Attack Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better”
At almost the moment that Dan Savage shared his idea for helping LGBT youth, I began pondering the inevitable backlash from the queer theorists who relish attacking any project (no matter how innovative, effective, or sincere) merely because it came from a member of the “patriarchal ageist classist gay white cis-male privileged ruling class.” I’ve read a few such predictable …
Read More »Tim Gunn – It Gets Better
I’ll probably lay off the celebrity clips a bit after this, but this one from Project Runway’s Tim Gunn relates his actual suicide attempt at the age of 17.
Read More »Dan Savage Blasts Religious Right As Culpable In Rash Of Gay Teen Suicides
“The religious right is seeing the fruit of their efforts: DEAD CHILDREN.” Watch every second of this. Dan says to gay kids: “Don’t believe the lies of the bigoted children of bigoted adults.”
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