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Last night I attended the Imperial Court of New York’s 25th annual Night Of 1000 Gowns, which this year benefited the Ali Forney Center and the Trevor Project. Swirling amidst all of the winking pomp and circumstance were empresses, emperors, duchesses, dukes, viscountesses, dowager empresses, and probably a dozen other royalty titles unknown to me. Also in the room were …

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As a benefit for the Trevor Project, openly gay singer Matt Zarley has recorded a cover of Pat Benatar’s 1984 smash We Belong. Below is a snippet of DJ Bill Bennett’s remix. Both the single and its remix are now available on iTunes and at Amazon.

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Trans activist, actress, and cabaret singer Alexandra Billings’ message to LGBT youth: “Everybody transitions. You just happen to be transitioning into the real you.”

Towleroad tips us to Glee cast member Darren Criss’ performance at this week’s Trevor Project gala fundraiser. In the second number Katy Perry surprises the audience to join Criss on his cover of her hit Teenage Dream.

Openly gay MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts mentions his own attempt at suicide as a result of anti-gay bullying.

On Mondays, most Broadway houses are dark. But next Monday the stars of Broadway will gather for a special benefit performance for the Trevor Project. Lea DeLaria will host. Also scheduled to appear: Betty Buckley, Ricky Ian Gordon, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Marc Kudisch, Aaron Lazar, John Tartaglia, Seth Rudetsky, Lea Delaria and Jeanine Tesori, as well as Emily Albrink, Jeff Blumenkrantz, …

Sally Field joins the cast and crew of Brothers & Sisters for their It Gets Better message.

Openly gay Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns writes to direct us to an online raffle for the boxer shorts given him by Ellen DeGeneres when he appeared to speak about his heart-wrenching video about LGBT bullying. Raffle tickets are only $5 each and all proceeds go to the Trevor Project! But do it right now because the winner will …

Janet says she first learned about the Trevor Project from late make-up artist Kevin Aucoin. About bullies, Janet says, “It says more about how they feel about themselves.”

Dan Savage comments on the “second-wave” of It Gets Better videos such as this and today’s clip from Canada. Most of the videos that went up in the first few weeks were—in addition to being moving and heartfelt—very quickly made, mostly with webcams, and the sound quality was sometimes poor. None of these things made the first-wave videos any less …

“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 …