It Gets Better: A Local Angle

LZ Granderson once wrote for the GR Press and, if I'm not mistaken, performed in some local theater. He's now an award-winning writer for ESPN.com. Like many other LGBT teens, he was bullied in school (and beaten by his stepfather). LZ contributed a special column to CNN.com this week; in it, he refers to Dan Savage's It Gets Better project on YouTube:

(These) stories are universal and can offer comfort to any student who may be a victim of bullying. Remember, pain and isolation know no race, gender, socioeconomic status or sexual orientation.

Amen.