It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780525952336 (0525952330)
ASIN: 0525952330
Publish date: 2011-03-22
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Anthologies,
Sexuality,
Short Stories,
Glbt,
Queer,
Gay
A mix of distinguished and totally undistinguished people assuring screwed-up kids such as myself that everything will be ok. I would have hoped for more distinguished people--or, really, more distinctive stories. Because the "normal person" stories (and even a lot of the "distinguished gay person...
Love the project, but the book seems to be transcriptions of the videos and they lose a lot of their vitality in print form. I read several of them and basically felt like I had read them all. It would probably mean a lot more to me if I were a gay teen.
There is no way to not appreciate the work that Terry, Dan and others have done. This book just brings together the message so that schools can also spread the message even better.