S.F Giants will be first U.S. pro sports team to create an "It Gets Better " video

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Monday May 16, 2011 · 9:35 PM PDT

2011/05/16 · 21:35

The World Champion San Francisco Giants baseball team announced today that they will become the first professional sports team in the U. S. to produce an "It Gets Better" video. The "It Gets Better" You Tube video campaign was begun by Dan Savage to encourage and support LGBT youth immediately after the nationally reported spate of suicides in the last few months of 2010.To date over 10,000 videos by people and groups in all walks of life here and abroad have been submitted.The effort to request the Giants to do this was a Courage Campaign petition this past week which delivered over 6,000 signatures (including mine) to them.

The story is here.

As other diarists here have noted, professional sports are moving faster than ever to changing their traditional homophobic image. This will be invaluable down the road in providing a more equitable and safe environment for LGBT youth to grow and live in. After winning the World Series last Novemeber, the Giants have gained a great amount of nationaL EXPOSURE (a Showtime reality series featuring them will air in July). The Giants were the first pro sports team to assist in the fight against AIDS with their "Until There's a Cure" Day, begun in the 1990's. Thank You, Giants!

This isn't about marriage anymore

EdSF

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Friday November 07, 2008 · 10:27 PM PST

2008/11/07 · 22:27

I just spent my evening in the only place where I could possibly belong. The city of San Francisco is alive with one of the most unexpected grassroots protests it has seen in years and I marched in it. Thousands of people (when only hundreds were expected), gay and straight of all colors, have come together on short notice to begin something which will prove to be bigger than any of us imagined when we heard of this demonstration.

The voice of hatred, injustice and intolerance was heard this week in California. Well, a whole new voice will be heard now. The bigots may have bought themselves an election, but we LGBT people have now found ourselves a loud voice and it will not be shut down. Not this time. We screamed "EQUAL RIGHTS", "EGUAL RIGHTS". We are no longer talking about marriage. After so many years, the state Supreme Court finally affirmed that we are a "suspect" class of people, something which no "gay rights" legislation has ever truly done. We are not to be discriminated against, we are entitled to equal protection under the law. No tyrannical majority of bigots will succeed in taking this away from us.

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