Wow:
The San Francisco Giants told SF Weekly today that the team will make an iconic “It Gets Better” video to encourage LGBT youth across the nation. The Giants will be the first professional sports team to join the spirited campaign aimed at curbing LGBT bullying and teen suicides.
According to Staci Slaughter, spokeswoman for the Giants, the team was already considering creating a video even before the change.org petition circulated last week, which requested that the Giants be the first sports team to join the campaign. More than 6,500 people have signed the petition. The It Gets Better Project started in 2010 after a slew of LGBT suicides across the nation. Since then, thousands of ordinary people, celebrities, and politicians have made videos.
I’m already a baseball fan, and the Giants just went way up in my book. When the current World Series champions are gearing up to loudly tell LGBT kids that It Gets Better, I’d say things have changed, people. Things have changed.
[h/t Dan Savage]
Also, on House last night, some of the cast members did a spot for It Gets Better.
I am NOT a baseball fan. I had the game pushed on me so hard as a kid I would rather spend time in a in a burn unit as a patient again, which I have been by the way, than sit through a f*****g baseball game. And I don’t drink, so there really is no way to make it interesting (for those of you who have seen that episode of The Simpsons)
But, you are SOOO right! This is big, this is good, and this is, in a weird way, one of the largest signs that things really HAVE changed. Wow.
I wont watch em’ but I sure do appreciate what they are doing!
Oh! I just thought of this…if porno Pete was spastic (and he was) over the animated “Woody” character from Toy Story, he will completely melt down over this! ;)
This from an old queen who isn’t into baseball, either. You GO, Giants. I lived in SF for many years and consider it my true hometown, so I’m glad to see the boys out there pitching one to help empower GLBT kids.