http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/06/04/boston-red-sox-to-create-it-gets-better-video Comments On: Boston Red Sox to Create "It Gets Better" Video by Dan Savage en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by CPT_Doom]]> Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:37:16 -0700 The Stranger http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/05…
Posted by cdm7]]> Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:41:58 -0700 The Stranger
"There would be no more compelling 'It gets better' video than somebody saying 'I hid who I was for a long time. But now I play for the Red Sox.' Then he should get a shaving cream pie in the face."

Pretty awesome.
Posted by Funi]]> Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:16:00 -0700 The Stranger
My guess is basically a Gaussian peaked around "successful middle-manager" with larger-than-Gaussian heights for "unsuccessful criminal" and "extremely successful executive", but that guess probably has more to do with my biases than reality.

Roger Ailes evidently will seize any opportunity to make fun of someone's accent.
Posted by Gerald Fnord]]> Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:17:06 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Y]]> Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:03:40 -0700 The Stranger Posted by bimatters]]> Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:57:01 -0700 The Stranger
But the videos are also showing people who've never cared, nor thought about gay issues that this is something they should be caring about. That's where these celebrity videos can be helpful. Maybe they'll speak to the bullies, or to the people who've so far not taken a position on gay rights.

Posted by Eddie Vedder]]> Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:35:34 -0700 The Stranger glbtq.com called "Confessions of a Blog Addict. Or Why I Love to Hate GetReligion.org and FamilyScholars.org."

From the section on GetRelgion.org:

"On the heels of the suicides of gay teens Asher Brown and Tyler Clementi in October 2010, Terry Mattingly confessed that he too was bullied. "I was a pudgy, non-athletic boy in sports-mad Texas and, to make it worse, I was a musician who sang in classical choirs (boy soprano, no less)," he confided. But, he added, "these weren't the main reasons I was bullied. There was something even worse to those bullies--I was a preacher's kid."

That's their answer to Dan Savage's charge that the pandemic of anti-gay bullying is related to the hateful rhetoric of religious leaders. Their self-pitying, self-indulgent, morally bankrupt response to the suicides of gay youth would be shocking were it not so predictable."

Here's the url for the article: http://www.glbtq.com/sfeatures/confessio…
Posted by JayJonson]]> Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:29:00 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Brody]]> Sun, 05 Jun 2011 08:54:06 -0700 The Stranger Posted by CBSeattle]]> Sun, 05 Jun 2011 08:02:15 -0700 The Stranger
I approve strongly of the project; I was a straight kid who got called "faggot" screamed at me every day---I finally realised that they just used the word to inflict pain, not as a specific insult...and then they started asking for sex. I got through it with the implicit "it gets better" of "someday this will be the past", which I think is what a suicidal kid might need to hear---"If you kill yourself, they've won."

But the ignored or approved student sadists who help govern our schools, much as gangs are used to govern our prisons, are enormously inventive, and will let no major trend go to waste, so I'm afraid that "It gets better," will become part of their repertoire.

I don't do "hope", I assess odds and make predictions---I think the damage done will be much less than the benefit received, because in the absence of "It gets better" they would have just used something else, though less useful---nothing beats using something that was supposed to help to injure, which is in fact the sin addressed in "Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk."
Posted by Gerald Fnord]]> Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:39:22 -0700 The Stranger Posted by LisaD]]> Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:38:00 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Paul Pearson]]> Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:40:55 -0700 The Stranger Posted by It Gets Better Dot Com: It's Dot Org.]]> Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:55:39 -0700 The Stranger Posted by razorclammer]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2011 20:54:41 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Sinclair]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2011 20:11:55 -0700 The Stranger Posted by ferret]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:41:16 -0700 The Stranger Posted by taint]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2011 16:16:10 -0700 The Stranger Posted by JenV]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:45:54 -0700 The Stranger Posted by PugilistPuck]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:29:10 -0700 The Stranger Posted by cgd]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:12:45 -0700 The Stranger Posted by josh]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:10:03 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Jaymz]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:02:01 -0700 The Stranger
next time, perhaps he could just stop at "I think it's great."
Posted by yougottahavefriends]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:58:42 -0700 The Stranger Posted by My Name Here]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:45:02 -0700 The Stranger