Trevor Donovan, who stars on the CW's
nighttime teenage drama 90210, has reached out to gay teens in
an It Gets Better video.
Sex advice columnist Dan Savage's It
Gets Better Project encourages troubled gay teens to hang in
there and not cave in to bullies, because life gets better.
In his one-minute-twenty-four-second
video, Donovan, whose 90210 character Teddy Montgomery is
struggling with his sexual orientation, encourages bystanders to get
involved.
“Recently, there have been several
teenage suicides in the national news. And these teenagers, from
what I've read, were being bullied because they were perceived as
being different. It must be hard enough dealing with personal issues
– like struggling with your sexual identity – but when you add in
abuse, isolation and bullying from peers, it can become downright
unbearable for some. If you see this or [are] even aware of
something like this happening in your school do something, tell
somebody.”
“This isn't about having respect for
a different way of life, but about life itself,” Donovan adds.
(The video is embedded in the right panel of this page.)
Celebrities and high-profile
politicians who have created videos for the It Gets Better Project
include President
Obama, Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton, New
York Governor David Paterson, Fort
Worth Councilman Joel Burns, rocker
Adam Lambert and actor Neil
Patrick Harris.