Another writes:
Every time I've seen the new "It Gets Better" ad during the NBA Playoffs, I cry my little straight guy eyes out. The bottom-up organization of it really is compelling, but the part that makes me well up is different.
The part that kills me is that it really says something powerful about how successful we can be when we appeal to each others' better natures. This is not about demonizing the bullies. It's not about finding a villain to take down. This is a simple message from caring people to hurting people. And while it's most relevant for gay teens, it speaks to everyone. Everyone needs to hear that life gets better, that there are people who will love and accept you for who you are out there, and that all you need to do is find them.
There's a reason Google used it to show the true power of the Internet as a tool. "It Gets Better" is a living, breathing, natural rebuke to the skeptic's popular indictment of the Internet as a weapon of mass social estrangement. And it's so successful because it appeals to our better natures. That's as powerful a statement of humanity's capacity for compassion as I've ever seen, and that's why it brings out the hankie for this straight sports junkie.
The Dish 