Thousands of people like Mr. Stowell have posted personal testimonies to YouTube in an online campaign titled “It Gets Better” that has, in Internet parlance, “gone viral” in the four weeks since it started. The campaign is intended to help gay teenagers who feel isolated and who may be contemplating suicide, and it coincides with a rash of recent news stories about bullying and the suicides of gay teenagers and young adults.
Mr. Stowell says he has received 23 e-mails from teenagers who said they had felt suicidal. He has referred them to the Trevor Project, a toll-free telephone line and online chat site for gay youths at risk. The YouTube channel for “It Gets Better” is the third largest source of traffic to the Trevor Project, and there has been a “great increase” in calls in the last month, a spokeswoman for the project said.
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Hillary Clinton joins in with her own plea:
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Lets hope that the It Gets Better campaign continues to explode and create positive change despite the attitudes of people like Carl Paladino who you recently wrote about - who apparently has been accused of distributing beastiality porn...
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I've recently read a moving pro-gay (is that a word?) editorial from the Calgary Herald. I think it IS getting better. gm
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