IT GETS BETTER OFFLINE—DAN SAVAGE AND TERRY MILLER’S PROJECT NOW A BOOK

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https://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/dan-savage-and-terry-miller-it-gets-better-project/
by Molly Brown on March 18, 2011 | Posted in Nonfiction
It launched last September as a video on YouTube that quickly went viral—sex columnist and author Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller’s testimonial to LGBT kids that it gets better. The video quickly became a movement, amassing thousands of proud, brave, trusted voices in its campaign. The project came about after a series of tragic suicides, bullied kids who felt so hopeless that they took their own lives, and was met with overwhelming enthusiasm and support—more than 10,000 user-created videos generating over 30 million pageviews have been made to date.

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Since, Savage and Miller have collected several of these stories and essays into a book, It Gets Better, that they hope will be on the shelves of every high school in the country. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, David Sedaris, Michael Cunningham, Ellen DeGeneres and more are just a few of the people who have stepped up to tell LGBT kids that life does improve. Here, Savage talks to us about the book and the It Gets Better Project’s next steps.

Can you tell us more about the idea to expand the It Gets Better Project into a book?

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