January 2012
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Happy National GSA Day!  →
Celebrate by joining GSA Network and Senator Franken to #makeitbetter with the Student Non-Discrimination Act!
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
December 2011
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One teacher's approach to preventing gender...
Fantastic piece about one teacher making it better. togetherforjacksoncountykids: “It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not...
Dec 21st
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Dec 7th
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“It’s no longer good enough for us to tell kids that it’s going to get better; we...”
– Rick Mercer (via livinglifefeminist)
Dec 7th
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Write a Letter, Make It Better! →
Write a letter to your current or former high school principal and let them know what it’s like for LGBT youth — and what steps they can take to Make It Better now!
Dec 7th
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Yes! Check out makeitbetterproject.org :) We'd...
zumie-monster: how about instead of an “it gets better” project we have a “let’s make it better” project.
Dec 6th
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September 2011
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Tell Lady Gaga how YOU Make It Better →
Last week, 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer died by suicide. He was part of the LGBT community, he had been bullied and harassed because of his sexual orientation, and he had even created an It Gets Better video. We’ve been through this before. We cannot go through this again. We can and must Make It Better.   There are plenty of ways for you to participate in Make It Better Semester, and we hope...
Sep 27th
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Productive day.
That’s fabulous! Would love to hear more about the presentations :) cowboyqueer: Well had two Make it Better Project / Silence is NOT Golden presentations. I think we covered a lot of ground. I talked to freshmen to seniors all at once. They were pretty open and they all seemed to get something from the session. Can’t wait to have more presentations and have MORE input.(: 
Sep 23rd
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Zander05: Make it better NOW!!! →
zander05: Each and every day, people die. Sometimes it’s natural causes, sometimes it’s smooth and peaceful, sometimes it’s painful and agonizing. Sometimes people have the privilege of having a pretty easy life, and sometimes we don’t. The It Gets Better Project has its heart in the right place, but if…
Sep 23rd
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August 2011
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Mole End: Gender Neutral Relational Terms →
torayot: tal9000: thevoiceagainst: artoftransliness: Being trans* has a tendency to make one aware of all the gendered terms out there. “Boyfriend”, “Girlfriend”, “Brother”, “Sister”, “Aunt”, and “Uncle” leave little room for ambiguity, which can be frustrating for non binary…
Aug 10th
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A Soliloquy of Sorts: Straight People and The It... →
iamabutchsolo: I like the idea of the It Gets Better Project, but sometimes I just feel annoyed when straight people, even straight celebrities I love, make a video. It makes me happy that allies want to be supportive and want to let young queer folks know that we have allies, but even though bullying is…
Aug 5th
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Make It Better Project →
LGBT youth shouldn’t have to suffer through bullying in school. We can make it better NOW!
Aug 5th