from
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/05/giants_it_gets_better_world_series.php The San Francisco Giants told SF Weekly today that the team will make an iconic "It Gets Better" video to encourage LGBT youth across the nation. The Giants will be the first professional sports team to join the spirited campaign aimed at curbing LGBT bullying and teen suicides. According to Staci Slaughter, spokeswoman for the Giants, the team was already considering creating a video even before the change.org petition circulated last week, which requested that the Giants be the first sports team to join the campaign. More than 6,500 people have signed the petition. The It Gets Better Project started in 2010 after a slew of LGBT suicides across the nation. Since then, thousands of ordinary people, celebrities, and politicians have made videos.
6 Comments
eric3579says...GO GIANTS!!!
jonnysays...Now if they can just stop the GIDPs, they'd be set.
bareboards2says...GIDP = Grounded Into Double Play per my quick google search. For those of us more interested in gay rights than baseball.
rottenseedsays..."We the LGBT community will stronghold, even bully, the SF Giants organization into making a video explaining how it gets better. We the LGBT community understand, that as baseball players, most of you have been on the receiving end of this kind of harassment. We also acknowledge that as baseball players, you all hold a code of conduct that respects the feelings of others including, but not limited to, not making fun of anybody, opponents or otherwise."
Dream on...idiots.
jonnysays...Hey - I can be interested in both. And this is in the sports channel.>> ^bareboards2:
GIDP = Grounded Into Double Play per my quick google search. For those of us more interested in gay rights than baseball.
siftbotsays...Moving this video to bareboards2's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.
Discuss...
Enable JavaScript to submit a comment.