when people ask me why I love Obama so much I kind of just stare at them blankly
That’s our usual reaction too.
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In the past couple weeks, I’ve been flooded with Dear Coke Talk submissions asking for my thoughts on the recent gay teen suicides and Dan Savage’s subsequent “It Gets Better” campaign, but I know better than to add to that discussion. It’s not my place to do so.
Dan has it covered. Brilliantly. As do class acts like Tim Gunn.
It would be tacky to wave around my opinions under the banner of “It Gets Better.” I’m not gonna be like Perez Hilton and Kesha who manage to somehow accidentally-on-purpose make it all about themselves.
Instead, I’ll just leave this video here.
It is without a doubt the most potent and profound example of an “It Gets Better” speech that I think we will ever see, and given its context as a Fort Worth City Council meeting, it fills me with a special kind of hope for this country.
Watch it all. See if you don’t cry.
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» No. No. No.
I literally cannot take this anymore.
A 19-year-old gay man from Oklahoma has taken his own life, and his parents say a hate-filled recent City Council meeting he attended may have driven him over the edge.
Zach Harrington was a talented musician who’d endured years of struggles due to his sexual orientation in high school in conservative Norman, Okla.
On Sept. 28, Harrington attended a three-hour public hearing on a proposal to declare October gay history month in the city. Although the council ultimately approved the proposal, Harrington’s parents described the meeting as potentially “toxic” for their son, a private person who internalized his feelings.
Seriously, this has GOT TO STOP. Sexual orientation is not something our society should make someone feel ashamed about to the point that they kill themselves, and the fact that we continually do, and this keeps happening, is absolutely and utterly UNACCEPTABLE.
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“In Europe between around 500,000 and 40,000 years ago, early humans such as Homo heidelbergensis and Neanderthals developed deep-seated commitments to the welfare of others illustrated by a long adolescence and a dependence on hunting together. There is also archaeological evidence of the routine care of the injured or infirm over extended periods. These include the remains of a child with a congenital brain abnormality who was not abandoned but lived until five or six years old and those of a Neanderthal with a withered arm, deformed feet and blindness in one eye who must have been cared for, perhaps for as long as twenty years.”
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