I was catching up on my feeds on Google Reader just now as I do every Sunday. One of the feeds is from the GLAAD blog, all the news and media announcements from GLAAD (the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). One of the major pieces of news on there this week is that in September, four young lads, aged between 13 and 18, killed themselves
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And, you're right, and thank you for voicing what I was thinking. If someone had told me at 15 that "It got better" I think I would've punched them.
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I'm having a hard time at the moment thinking that it will get better. If someone had told me that at 15, and some random adult that I didn't know, I doubt I would have believed them.
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Sometimes to give someone false hope can be worse than having no hope at all, because when it doesn't get better, or it is a long way off, people can crash even harder :-/
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:)
And, the thing about Dan Savage is that he's all about you if you're white, cisgendered male, fairly middle class, thin, and aged about 25-40. Other than that, forget about it. Dan Savage does not care about you.
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I completely forgot to include in my post my major issue with the project which is that it is not addressing the real problem, that being the homophobic bullying. It's treating the LGBT youth as the problem instead.
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