NASA Made an ‘It Gets Better’ Video
Sex columnist Dan Savage was moved by the suicides of gay teenagers to launch the It Gets Better Project, and since then everyone from President Obama to Perez Hilton has made a video. Add NASA and its LGBT brainiacs to that list.Sex columnist Dan Savage was moved by the suicides of gay teenagers to launch the It Gets Better Project, and since then everyone from President Obama to Perez Hilton has made a video. Add NASA and its awesome LGBT brainiacs to that list.
NASA… made an It Gets Better video. NASA!youtu.be/yiCYoOjCcNw
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) May 31, 2013
— Posted by Peter Z. Scheer.
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