Description |
x, 338 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
Summary |
A collection of original essays and expanded testimonials written to teens from celebrities, political leaders, and everyday people. While many of these teens can't see a positive future for themselves, we can. We can show LGBT youth the kind of happiness, potential, and satisfaction their lives hold if they can just get through these early years. |
Contents |
A message from President Barack Obama / Barack Obama -- You will find your people / Laurel Slongwhite -- The life almost lost / Bruce Ortiz -- In the early morning rain / Jennifer Finney Boylan -- Something has changed within me / Gregory Maguire -- Action makes it better / Urvashi Vaid -- You are a rubber band, my friend / Brinae Lois Gaudet -- God believes in you / Bishop Gene Robinson -- The person worth fighting for is you / Alex R. Orue -- A message from Ellen DeGeneres / Ellen DeGeneres -- Life unfolds exactly as it should (but not as you planned) / Sean Blane, David Rosen -- It gets better for a British soldier / James Wharton -- Getting stronger and staying alive / Gabrielle Rivera -- Coming out of the Shtetl: gay Orthodox Jews / Marc Tannen -- Going back in / Mare Vaporum Corp -- And the Emmy goes to... / Barbara Gaines -- A message from US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton -- This I know for sure / A. Y. Daring -- It gets better Broadway / contributors to It Gets Better Broadway -- Rockin' the flannel shirt / Krissy Mahan -- How it got better for an ordained Christian minister / Stephen V. Sprinkle -- Out of darkness / Philip Deal -- Something special / Sia Furler -- The dinner party / Adam Roberts -- What I wish I knew / Ivan Coyote -- Freedom from fear / Michael Feinstein -- A Message from Prime Minister David Cameron -- You will meet people who celebrate you / Jenn and Erika Wagner-Martin -- An identity unfolded / Mark Ramirez -- Brothers: it gets better / Lenox Magee, Rannon Harris, David Dodd, Kean Ray -- Drop dead, warlock / David Sedaris -- Gwendolyn gone / Meshell Ndegeocello -- Growing Up Gay... and KINKY / Dart -- The biggest gift / Stewart Taylor -- A message from Senator Al Franken / Al Franken -- Transsexual prairie girl / Tamsyn Waterhouse -- Art from rage / Jason Sellards -- It gets better / Bashar Makhay -- Too good to be true / Cameron Tuttle -- Journey to a better life / Juan Carlos Galan, MS -- The gay guy in the band / Kevin Yee -- Will I grow up to be Paul Lynde? / Andy Cohen -- Finding who I am / Hunter Adeline Brady -- Community / Chaz Bono -- A message from Nancy Pelosi / Nancy Pelosi -- Gunn's golden rules / Tim Gunn -- Perfect, just the way you are / Darren Hayes -- Where happiness is / Natalie S. Mandelin -- Not-normal / Michael K. Wells -- Darn it / Kate Clinton -- Look at the moon / Agust'n Cepeda -- Critical shifts / Jesse Barnes -- For Aideybear / Ava Dodge -- A message from John Berry / John Berry -- The show must go on / Kyle Dean Massey -- Survival Tools / Ellen Forney -- Dear Uncle Ronnie / randy roberts potts -- My office wall / Trevor Corneil -- Keep on livin' / J. D. Samson -- It gets better because you're a little different / Dave Holmes -- Unapologetically, me / Demetrius Gittens -- A collective voice / Gabe Milligan-Green, Addy Cahill, Russell Peck -- I didn't always wear a tuxedo / Murray Hill -- How I got over / Tuan N'Gai -- A "better" evolution / Joseph Odysseus Mastro -- Save yourself, save the world / Khris Brown -- Becoming an authentic person / Nicholas Wheeler -- On the other side / Jay Foxworthy, Bryan Leffew -- Bully me / Congregation Beit Simchat Torah -- To the bullies / Tristan Jackson (TJ) -- The good fight / Kristel Yoneda -- A message from Kevin Hague / Kevin Hague -- Haters can't gate someone who loves themselves, and if they do, who cares / Lynn Breedlove -- Not playing at a cinema near you / Rebecca Brown -- From "faggot" to field biologist / Christopher A. Schmitt -- It got better / Stephen D. Lorimor -- Our parents as allies / Lawrence Gullo, Fyodor Pavlov, Eileen Charbonneau, Ed Gullo -- Lesbian teacher believes in you / Kristin Rivers -- Stepping off the sidelines / Wayne Knaub -- My own worst enemy / Jessica Leshnoff -- You are a beloved child of God / the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America -- Transgendered and self-educated in Maine / Jean Vermette -- The power of "You" / Luan Legacy -- It gets better for small towners, too / Dwayne Steward -- To me: with love and squalor / Terry Galloway -- Happiness is inevitable / Henry Winfiele -- Wish I'd been sassier! / Brian Gallivan -- Protect and serve loves Semper Fidelis / J. D. Davis, Allen D. Stone -- The doors of acceptance / Shaun Ridgway -- Hope out of tragedy / Matthew Houck -- Patience makes perfect sense / Angelo D'Agostino -- Christian LGBT kids: you're part of the plan / Raven Mardirosian -- Terrible day / Patrick Murphy -- The worst of both worlds / Cooter Space -- Closets on fire / Anthony Antoine -- The King brothers / Dick King, Mark S. King -- Community found / Taylor Bailey -- From scared to proud: the journey of a gay medical student / Jake Kleinman -- Authentic self / Sara Sperling -- You can live a life that's worth living / Kate Bornstein. |
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Gay teenagers.
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Coming out (Sexual orientation)
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Bullying.
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Quality of life.
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Happiness.
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Gay teenagers.
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Gay teenagers -- Identity.
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Bullies.
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Quality of life.
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Happiness.
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Coming out (Sexual orientation)
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Bullying.
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Happiness.
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Added Author |
Savage, Dan.
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Miller, Terry.
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ISBN |
9780525952336 |
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0525952330 |
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