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IT GETS BETTER: Coming out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living
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Dutton/ Penguin Group
2011
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Sommario:
- Introduction / Dan Savage
- A message from President Barack Obama / by Barack Obama
- You will find your people / by Laurel Slongwhite
- The life almost lost / by Bruce Ortiz
- In the early morning rain / by Jennifer Finney Boylan
- Something has changed within me / by Gregory Maguire
- Action makes it better / by Urvashi Vaid
- You are a rubber band, my friend / by Brinae Lois Gaudet
- God believes in you / by Bishop Gene Robinson
- The person worth fighting for is you / by Alex R. Orue
- A message from Ellen DeGeneres / by Ellen DeGeneres
- Life unfolds exactly as it should (but not as you planned) / by Sean Blane and David Rosen
- It gets better for a British soldier / by James Wharton
- Getting stronger and staying alive / by Gabrielle Rivera
- Coming out of the Shtetl: gay Orthodox Jews / by Marc Tannen
- Going back in / by Mare Vaporum Corp
- And the Emmy goes to ... / by Barbara Gaines
- A message from US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used by permission of the US Department of State
- This I know for sure / by A.Y. Daring
- It gets better Broadway / by the contributors to It Gets Better Broadway
- Rockin' the flannel shirt / by Krissy Mahan
- How it got better for an ordained Christian minister / by Stephen V. Sprinkle
- Out of darkness / by Philip Deal
- I was a teenage lesbian / by Alison Bechdel. Something special / by Sia Furler
- The dinner party / by Adam Roberts
- What I wish I knew / by Ivan Coyote
- Freedom from fear / by Michael Feinstein
- A Message from Prime Minister David Cameron used by permission of the Prime Minister's Office, London
- You will meet people who celebrate you / by Jenn and Erika Wagner-Martin
- An identity unfolded / by Mark Ramirez
- A message from Suze Orman
- Brothers: it gets better / by Lenox Magee, Rannon Harris, David Dodd, and Kean Ray
- Drop dead, warlock / by David Sedaris
- Gwendolyn gone / by Meshell Ndegeocello
- Growing Up Gay ... and KINKY / by Dart
- The biggest gift / by Stewart Taylor
- A message from Senator Al Franken / by Al Franken
- Transsexual prairie girl / by Tamsyn Waterhouse
- Art from rage / by Jason Sellards
- It gets better / by Bashar Makhay
- Too good to be true / by Cameron Tuttle
- Journey to a better life / by Juan Carlos Galan, MS
- The gay guy in the band / by Kevin Yee
- Will I grow up to be Paul Lynde? / by Andy Cohen
- Finding who I am / by Hunter Adeline Brady
- Community / by Chaz Bono
- A message from Nancy Pelosi / by Nancy Pelosi
- Gunn's golden rules / by Tim Gunn
- Perfect, just the way you are / by Darren Hayes
- Where happiness is / by Natalie S. Mandelin
- Not-normal / by Michael K. Wells. Born this way / by Perez Hilton
- Darn it / by Kate Clinton
- Look at the moon / by Agustn̕ Cepeda
- Critical shifts / by Jesse Barnes
- For Aideybear / by Ava Dodge
- A message from John Berry / by John Berry
- The show must go on / by Kyle Dean Massey
- Survival Tools / by Ellen Forney
- Dear Uncle Ronnie / by randy roberts potts
- My office wall / by Trevor Corneil
- Keep on livin' / by J.D. Samson
- It gets better because you're a little different / by Dave Holmes
- Unapologetically, me / by Demetrius Gittens
- A collective voice / by Gabe Milligan-Green, Addy Cahill, and Russell Peck
- I didn't always wear a tuxedo / by Murray Hill
- How I got over / by Tuan N'Gai
- A "better" evolution / by Joseph Odysseus Mastro
- Save yourself, save the world / by Khris Brown
- Becoming an authentic person / by Nicholas Wheeler
- On the other side / by Jay Foxworthy and Bryan Leffew
- Bully me / by Congregation Beit Simchat Torah
- To the bullies / by Tristan Jackson (TJ)
- The good fight
- by Kristel Yoneda
- A message from Kevin Hague / by Kevin Hague
- Haters can't hate someone who loves themselves, and if they do, who cares / by Lynn Breedlove
- Not playing at a cinema near you / by Rebecca Brown
- From "faggot" to field biologist / by Christopher A. Schmitt
- It got better / by Stephen D. Lorimor. Our parents as allies / by Lawrence Gullo, Fyodor Pavlov, Eileen Charbonneau, and Ed Gullo
- Lesbian teacher believes in you / by Kristin Rivers
- Stepping off the sidelines / by Wayne Knaub
- My own worst enemy / by Jessica Leshnoff
- You are a beloved child of God / by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- Transgendered and self-educated in Maine / by Jean Vermette
- The power of "You" / by Luan Legacy
- It gets better for small towners, too / by Dwayne Steward
- To me: with love and squalor / by Terry Galloway
- Happiness is inevitable / by Henry Winfiele
- I wish I'd been sassier! / by Brian Gallivan
- Protect and serve loves Semper Fidelis / by J.D. Davis and Allen D. Stone
- The doors of acceptance / by Shaun Ridgway
- Hope out of tragedy / by Matthew Houck
- Patience makes perfect sense / by Angelo D'Agostino
- Christian LGBT kids: you're part of the plan / by Raven Mardirosian
- Terrible day / by Patrick Murphy
- The worst of both worlds / by Cooter Space
- Closets on fire / by Anthony Antoine
- The King brothers / by Dick King and Mark S. King
- Community found / by Taylor Bailey
- From scared to proud: the journey of a gay medical student / by Jake Kleinman
- Authentic self / by Sara Sperling
- You can live a life that's worth living / by Kate Bornstein
- Epilogue / Terry Miller.