Video: Freedom to Serve, Freedom to Marry: The Story of Monica and Naomi

Another video in my "Tales of Inequality" series (check tag for previous one). I think anyone who believes this to be a just situation, needs to be put through the same hell. Yunno, for the sake of justice...

Mormons Tell You That It Gets Better

This is probably the weirdest thing you'll see tonight - an LGBT group in Brigham Young University (considered one of the most LGBT-unfriendly campuses in the country) have made an "It Gets Better" video. I think it's really touching. Please take the time to see it:





And because we both know you were checking out Adam:





You're welcome :p

#tomyunbornchild

n early March, the hashtag "#tomyunbornchild" became a worldwide trend on Twitter. By and large, these tweets were loving, hopeful messages to the next generation -- but many people saw it as an opportunity to express hate speech towards LGBT children: http://storify.com/homophobes/100-homophobes-who-would-kill-their-gay-child

Reading their bile, the only thing I could think was: how would we feel if we heard actual parents saying this to actual children?

I got the idea on a Thursday. By Sunday, we -- me, my boyfriend, and whatever friends we could find to help us -- had it filmed.

It's easy to dehumanize hate speech online because we've gotten so used to seeing it. We tell ourselves that it's the product of trolls, of random, anonymous strangers.

Except they're not. They're real people. Many of them will be parents. And some of their children will be gay.

But what can we DO about it? I don't think there are any easy answers.

Whenever you believe life begins, I hope we can all agree: life is essential, and rare, and precious. We can't stop anyone from having kids. But we can resolve to stop this toxic cycle. We can wish better for our own children. And we can support the kids who weren't so lucky.