Sunday, October 10, 2010

Howard Bragman: It Gets Better

After a rash of recent suicides, columnist Dan Savage has launched a youtube campaign inviting "gay adults to tell stories about having transcended the tortures of youth," according to The New York Times. "In countless videos, lesbians and gay men — including Project Runway’s Tim Gunn — bare their souls, share their triumphs and make that simple promise: It gets better."

Here's one of the videos by Flint Expatriate Howard Bragman, a public relations specialist who has advised Cameron Diaz and Paula Abdul:





3 comments:

  1. Very nice post. It's a great campaign and really important to hear that it gets better. Anyone who has ever been marginalized should have this compassion.

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  2. Well said, Howard! Now we need you to come up with a PR campaign for Flint. It wouldn't be easy, but I think you could pull it off.

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  3. Help raise money for THE TREVOR PROJECT by purchasing an IT GETS BETTER t-shirt. Your support can make a difference in the fight against gay youth suicide. www.ItGetsBetter.biz

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Thanks for commenting. I moderate comments, so it may take a while for your comment to appear. You might enjoy my book about Flint called "Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City," a Michigan Notable Book for 2014 and a finalist for the 33rd Annual Northern California Book Award for Creative NonFiction. Filmmaker Michael Moore described Teardown as "a brilliant chronicle of the Mad Maxization of a once-great American city." More information about Teardown is available at www.teardownbook.com.