It Gets Better: Update

Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project has filled its slot at YouTube -- 650 videos, which is the limit.

So now there's a dedicated website at It Gets Better Project.

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An Update to the Update: Just ran across this statement, titled "It Gets Better," from Brian Bond, which is largely Valerie Jarrett's speech for HRC. This is choice:

Building a more perfect union means standing against anyone trying to write inequality into our laws and our Constitution – and repealing divisive and discriminatory laws like DOMA. And it means ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell once and for all. This is a promise the President has made in no uncertain terms. For the first time in history, the Secretary of Defense has testified in favor of ending this policy. For the first time in history, we have a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who has argued forcefully for allowing gay men and women to serve their country without having to subvert their integrity. And for the first time in history, the House of Representatives has passed repeal. Now we’ve got to keep pushing the Senate to do the right thing and get this done.

I can't quite fathom the degree of cynicism involved in anyone standing up in front of an audience and coming out with crap like this with a straight face.

That little release got this response from Dan Savage:

Fuck you, you pack of co-opting cowards.

Seriously. You can do a more than offer hope. You have the power to make it better. Right now. Suspend enforcement of DADT. Don't appeal the decision by a federal judge that declared DADT unconstitutional. Stop defending DOMA in court. Keep your promises. Make it better. And if you're not going to keep your promises or do what you can to make it better, White House, then you could at least have the simple human decency to shut the fuck up.

State-sanctioned discrimination against LGBT people legitimizes the kind of anti-gay attitudes and beliefs that lead directly to anti-gay bullying at the ballot box and anti-gay bullying in schools. You can do more. Enough with the speeches. Enough with the pretty words—particularly lifted ones.

Fuck you.

My sentiments exactly.

And for those Obamabots who still think there's something to defend on gay issues, this: all Obama's done is give us crumbs. Jarrett notes that the president "marked the passage of the Matthew Shepared Hate Crimes Act." Nice of him to notice, since he did nothing to ensure its passage. And that's the point: no, he's not living up to our expectations, but he created the damned expectations to begin with. He's doing jack shit to deliver. He played us.

Good for Savage.