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| Introduction | |
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| A Message from President | |
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| You Will Find Your People | |
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| The Life Almost Lost | |
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| In the Early Morning Rain | |
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| Something Has Changed Within Me | |
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| Action Makes It Better | |
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| You Are a Rubber Band, My Friend | |
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| God Believes in You | |
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| The Person Worth Fighting For Is You | |
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| A Message | |
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| Life Unfolds Exactly As It Should (But Not As You Planned) | |
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| It Gets Better for a British Soldier | |
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| Getting Stronger and Staying Alive | |
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| Coming Out of the Shtetl: Gay Orthodox Jews | |
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| Going Back In | |
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| And the Emmy Goes to … | |
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| A Message from U.S. Secretary of State | |
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| This I Know for Sure | |
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| It Gets Better Broadway by Members of the Broadway and New York Theater Community | |
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| Rockin' the Flannel Shirt | |
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| How It Got Better for an Ordained Christian Minister | |
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| Out of Darkness | |
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| I Was a Teenage Lesbian | |
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| Something Special | |
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| The Dinner Party | |
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| What I Wish I Knew | |
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| Freedom from Fear | |
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| A Message from Prime Minister | |
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| You Will Meet People Who Celebrate You | |
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| An Identity Unfolded | |
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| A Message | |
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| Brothers: It Gets Better | |
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| Drop Dead, Warlock | |
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| Gwendolyn Gone | |
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| Growing Up Gay … | |
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| The Biggest Gift | |
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| A Message from Senator | |
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| Transsexual Prairie Girl | |
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| Art from Rage | |
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| It Gets Better | |
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| Too Good to Be True | |
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| Journey to a Better Life | |
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| The Gay Guy in the Band | |
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| Will I Grow Up to Be Paul Lynde? | |
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| Finding Who I Am | |
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| Community | |
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| A Message | |
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| Gunn's Golden Rules | |
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| Perfect, Just the Way You Are | |
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| Where Happiness Is | |
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| Not-Normal | |
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| Born This Way | |
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| Darn It | |
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| Look at the Moon | |
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| Critical Shifts | |
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| For Aideybear | |
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| A Message | |
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| The Show Must Go On | |
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| Survival Tools | |
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| Dear Uncle Ronnie | |
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| My Office Wall | |
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| Keep on Livin' | |
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| It Gets Better Because You're a Little Different | |
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| Unapologetically, Me | |
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| A Collective Voice | |
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| I Didn't Always Wear a Tuxedo | |
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| How I Got Over | |
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| A �Better� Evolution | |
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| Save Yourself, Save the World | |
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| Becoming an Authentic Person | |
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| On the Other Side | |
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| Bully Me | |
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| To the Bullies | |
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| The Good Fight | |
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| A Message | |
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| Haters Can't Hate Someone Who Loves Themselves, and if They Do, Who Cares | |
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| Not Playing at a Cinema Near You | |
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| From �Faggot� to Field Biologist | |
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| It Got Better | |
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| Our Parents as Allies | |
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| Lesbian Teacher Believes in You | |
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| Stepping Off the Sidelines | |
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| My Own Worst Enemy | |
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| You Are a Beloved Child of God | |
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| Transgendered and Self-Educated in Maine | |
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| The Power of �You� | |
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| It Gets Better for Small Towners, Too | |
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| To Me: With Love and Squalor | |
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| Happiness Is Inevitable | |
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| I Wish I'd Been Sassier! | |
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| Protect and Serve Loves Semper Fidelis | |
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| The Doors of Acceptance | |
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| Hope Out of Tragedy | |
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| Patience Makes Perfect … Sense | |
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| Christian LGBT Kids: You're Part of the Plan | |
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| Terrible Day | |
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| The Worst of Both Worlds | |
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| Closets on Fire | |
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| The King Brothers | |
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| Community Found | |
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| From Scared to Proud: The Journey of a Gay Medical Student | |
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| Authentic Self | |
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| You Can Live a Life That's Worth Living | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Resources | |
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| Some Curriculum Guidelines for Schools and Teachers | |
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| The Trevor Project | |
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| GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) | |
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| ACLU LGBT Project | |
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| Photo and Comic Credits | |
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| Permissions | |