It Gets Better Project
From the It Gets Better Project website:
Many LGBT youth can’t picture what their lives might be like as openly gay adults. They can’t imagine a future for themselves. So let’s show them what our lives are like, let’s show them what the future may hold in store for them.
I don’t talk about this much. Just like with everything else, I pretend it didn’t hurt, pretend it didn’t matter, and let my friends believe what they wanted, until I was actually involved with a girl, and they realized they were wrong. The path of least resistance, because at that point, resistance was futile.
In most cases, I wouldn’t call it bullying, so much as pretty much everyone I knew being completely confused about who I am, and being offended by my claims for wholly different reasons than you usually hear about. Read more…