Post Tagged with: "It Gets Better"

Symbolism Doesn’t Make Anything Better.

Symbolism Doesn’t Make Anything Better.

Simply saying it gets better doesn’t make it so. This isn’t Bewitched where Samantha wriggles her nose and things change. The value of It Gets Better is to place a sense of hope and focus that down the road, if you get yourself that far, it will be better. And in my personal opinions, Huang’s ideas are simplistic and do little to grasp the reality of the needed hope that will help save these kids.

May 19, 2012 — 2 comments — Activism, Election, Same-Sex Marriage

Ask the Pirates to help: It Gets Better

Pittsburgh blogger Sue Kerr, who blogs at Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, started a petition at Change.org to encourage the Pittsburgh Pirates to make a video for the It Gets Better project. It Gets Better, was started by Dan Savage, as a way to get a message out to troubled teens struggling with coming out and finding acceptance. One teen who chooses to end their life because of the abuse they endure because of being different, is[Read More…]

June 28, 2011 — Comments are Disabled — general

Max Adler Says It Gets Better

Last week, I posted some comments about Glee, Kurt, and the anti-bullying episode. I used a post from the Huffington Post as my departure point, and I appreciated the dialogue that grew from that. While Leah, who wrote in HuffPo and I may see some things a bit differently, all of the ideas are important, and I value the willingness of anyone to offer their ideas. Today, I see that Max Adler, the guy who[Read More…]

November 16, 2010 — Comments are Disabled — general