I made a video for Dan Savage's "It Gets Better" project (http://www.youtube.com/itgetsbetterproject). I didn't want to brag about my life, but I wanted to make something short (46 seconds!) that conveyed happiness. This is the message that I'd love to beam back into space and time and share with the young homosexual I was growing up. And it's also the video I will watch when I'm feeling depressed.
That's a really hard thing - when you're depressed you can't SEE the future. I know that first hand. There *is* no future... at least, not one that you'd ever think you care to reach.
i was a little worried that I sounded privileged. i'm a rich white computer programmer. i've been very lucky. But hell... as You have told me, you can find happiness in a tin-roof shack, if there's love in it. i think when you've been beat down and beat down, someone should remind you that life can be beautiful. So i made the video.
Edited at 2010-09-30 11:40 pm (UTC)
You are out and proud! That took courage to do that video. I admire courage.
You have a great attitude and that is *ULTRA-FANTASTIC*!
It's kind of like the line of bullshit Obama sold us.
I'm not sure i agree with my friend. The message is not one of complacency, or the idea that things will get better on their own. I'm hoping that the outcome of the "It Gets Better" project is a consensus that gay people have the right - and ability! - to forge powerful and happy lives.
Edited at 2010-09-30 11:41 pm (UTC)
I may start loathing Damn Savage slightly less vehemently!
(And it was wonderful finally getting to hear your voice. :-) )
And interestingly.. when I saw your post with this on FB and watched it, I was gonna tell you you might pull it out the next time yer in a depressive cycle. :-{)
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