Tag Archives: Dan Savage

Afternoon View – Dan Savage

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

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi – It Gets Better

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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.

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Dan Savage: The President’s Message Is Welcome, But Doesn’t Match His Actions

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Tweet Of The Day II – Barack Obama

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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 …

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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 …

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Google Staffers – It Gets Better

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Secretary Hillary Clinton – It Gets Better

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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.

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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 …

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Gay Comics – It Gets Better

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Sassy Gay Friend – It Gets Better

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Buck Angel – It Gets Better

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Jake Shears – It Gets Better

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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 …

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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 …

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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.

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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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