In new It Get Better videos, GM and
Dell employees urge troubled gay teens to hang in there.
The
It Gets Better Project encourages troubled LGBT teens to
not cave in to bullies, because life eventually gets better.
“If you are in a difficult time in
your life where people's words are bothering you or people are making
fun of you, you're not alone. We've been through it all,” says
Andy Cardenas, a Dell employee and member of Dell Pride LGBT Employee
Resource Group. “And I just hope that you can see the light at
the end of the tunnel. And I hope that you can see just how great
and how valuable your life is. And how how many great things will
come. And I hope that if you can't talk to your friends or family,
that you can reach out to somebody, maybe somebody at school or just
somebody in the community or calling the hotline and just talking to
somebody and just listening to an adult, listening to somebody who
has a great life tell you that it will get better, and no matter how
mean the things you're being told are, and how hurtful they make you
feel, you're not alone.”
In the second video, a GM transgender
female employee urges teens to be true to themselves: “It's
important that you're true to yourself. And once you are, things
will get better.” (The video is embedded in the right panel of
this page.)
GM and Dell are the latest large
companies to create such videos, joining American Airlines, Google,
Pixar,
Microsoft
and Apple.