‘It gets better’ marks a decade of hope for LGBTQ youth

The World

In September 2010, Dan Savage and Terry Miller posted a video on YouTube sharing their experiences of getting bullied in high school for being gay. In the video, their advice was simple: “it gets better.” The World’s Bianca Hillier reports on the power of that advice reflected in the 70,000 related videos that have been posted by people around the globe in the years since.

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