Dan Savage’s ‘The Real O’Neal’s’ trailer released (VIDEO)

The first trailer for Dan Savage’s highly anticipated sitcom The Real O’Neals has been released. The Real O’Neals is billed as a fresh take on a seemingly perfect Catholic family whose lives take an unexpected turn when surprising truths are revealed. Instead of ruining their family, the honesty triggers a new, messier chapter where everyone…

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Documentary series ‘It Got Better’ returns for second season on L/Studio (VIDEO)

TORRANCE, Calif.– The second season of docuseries “It Got Better,” a collaboration between the creative team of Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky’s Is Or Isn’t Entertainment (“The Comeback”; “Web Therapy”; “Who Do You Think You Are?”) and Dan Savage and his It Gets Better Project, premieres today on Lexus-owned broadband channel L/Studio (LStudio.com). With “It…

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For LGBTQ youth, one study finds it might really ‘get better’

Back in 2010, Dan Savage, a popular and highly read sex-advice columnist based in Seattle, launched the ‘It Gets Better’ Project, a series of self-submitted videos by people offering words of encouragement to members of the LGBTQ youth community. The range of submissions, and by extension their messages, were as diverse as those who contributed….

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Advice columnist Dan Savage chats with WNYC’s ‘Death, Sex & Money’ about the topics he is most uncomfortable speaking about

Advice columnist, author, advocate and founder of the “It Gets Better” campaign, Dan Savage writes openly and frankly about sex and sexuality, but what’s the one thing he hates talking about? Money. In the latest episode of WNYC’s Death, Sex & Money, Savage sat down with host Anna Sale to discuss the challenges of raising a teenager, difficulties…

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It Gets Better Project launches campaign aimed at Russia’s LGBT youth (VIDEO)

http://youtu.be/7p6LvuwI7GQ LOS ANGELES — The It Gets Better Project (IGB) was founded in October 2010 by Dan Savage and Terry Miller with a YouTube video that ignited a global movement. The video’s message was simple: life does get better for LGBT youth. Three years later, IGB has launched a new video campaign in response to Russia’s discriminatory…

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Artists and celebrities donate to crowdfunding campaign for LGBTQ history app (VIDEO)

BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md. — The free mobile app Quist has launched a $15,000 crowdfunding campaign to be able to expand its research, functionality and reach. “To maintain and improve this free resource for the community takes funding” said Sarah Prager, 27, Quist’s founder and director. “We have depended on the community for support so far and…

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Indiana students want separate prom that bans gay students(VIDEO)

SULLIVAN, Ind. – In an astounding display of bigotry some parents, students and clergy in Sullivan, Ind. want a separate high school prom banning gay and lesbian students. WTWO reported that a group of supporters met Sunday at the Sullivan First Christian Church, in Sullivan County, to plan a separate “traditional prom” for Sullivan High…

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