It gets better

Talking about gay bullying and my experience of bullying and suicide as part of the It Gets Better project by Dan Savage (but sadly he's exceeded the favourites for the channel!). It's a great idea in response the sad and ever-present suicides of gay teens- something like 3 times the UK average here, depressingly... and maybe give hope to those who feel alone at that time (I did, and the feeling that you're the only one in the world runs across all queer groups and probably many more, I'm guessing). Bullying and homophobia in schools going unchecked or even supported by the staff - and certainly more needs to be done by the schools, the government and activism like this to help kids out of that 'hole' - I decided to be completely closeted, but others are far braver and it's sad I couldn't be who I really was during such an important time in my life through fear.

First finished video done in AVID which I'm learning as part of a week's course atm (and suprisingly works on Bert the old laptop) and my new Lumix LX5 camera with the weird AVCHD Lite format - thanks to these people and their tips on how to use FFMpeg to convert to DNxHD format - and WinFF is Made of Win.

Other more moving videos from this project from Jake Shears and Ellen Degeneres:

Keep safe, keep happy.