By: Jarred

I’m certainly not going to criticize Dan Savage for trying to do something to encourage gay kids. At the same time, however, I do think that promising a kid that it’ll get better eventually may not be much encouragement or help when said kid is at their wit’s end right now. I am thankful that there are organizations (and I grant you that I wouldn’t be surprised that Savage supports them as well) that struggle to get gay kids the help they need right now. I’m glad that new GSA’s and gay youth centers are being established all the time. Because in the end, I think that “it’ll get better, and here’s where you can go to get help in the meantime” is better than “hang in there, it’ll get better eventually.”

As for Google using clips from the campaign in its ad, that’s just awesome any way you slice it.