The It Gets Better Project is Headed to MTV and Logo

The It Gets Better Project was created by syndicated columnist, author, and LGBT activist Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller in September 2010 as an inspirational response to anti-gay bullying and the hike in (publicized) LGBT teen suicides. Since then, more than 30,000 touching and motivational videos have been created by countless celebrities, public figures, and regular people like you and me with one resounding message to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens who are being bullied and facing discrimination, intolerance, and hate today: It Gets Better.

This project has achieved amazing success; by just the end of 2010, it raised over $100,000 from $2,500+ grassroots contributors that has gone to increase support and resources available to teenagers in the LGBT community through the project’s affiliation with the Trevor Project suicide hotline, GLSEN (The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network), and the ACLU LGBT Project. By the end of this month, the It Gets Better Project will reach an even wider audience with the premiere of the It Gets Better special that will air on both MTV and Logo on Tuesday, February 21st at 11:00 p.m. ET.

Donate Your Jeans at Any Aéropostale Store to Help Homeless Teens

I woke up yesterday morning to a familiar winter chill filling the air. The kind of chill that makes its way into your home regardless of how high the heat is turned up and immediately consumes you before you even open your eyes. The kind of chill that becomes a part of you if you have always lived in a place where it snows, as I have, where as soon as you feel it, you know that while you were sleeping, nature was busy transforming every inch of outside space as far as you can see into the distance a beautiful, pristine white.

Whenever I wake up to newly-fallen snow, I get the same feeling: complete and utter excitement followed by a list of all the ways I could spend my day. You see, a …

Hillary Clinton Delivers Historic LGBT Rights Speech in Celebration of International Human Rights Day

On December 10, 1948, after a nearly-two year process of drafting, revising, and rewriting, forty-eight nations voted in favor of adopting one of the most important texts to human beings everywhere–the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This text proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. It is a simple, yet extraordinarily powerful idea, and one that in the past 63 years has led many nations to instill lasting change benefiting the citizens of their collective countries. However, this has not been enough to protect all human beings based on the simple fact that they are human beings. Even in the United States today, countless people are affected by broad injustice, discrimination, and intolerance.

Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a profound speech to a packed auditorium in Geneva …

Breeze Comfort Will Donate 10% of Proceeds to My Hope Chest During October

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Breeze Comfort, the makers of the most breathable padded bras and sports bras out there (which we reviewed back in March), are doing their part to help bring awareness and much-needed donations to help breast cancer survivors.

Starting today and throughout the month of October, Breeze Comfort will donate 10% of their proceeds to My Hope Chest, an organization that funds breast reconstruction for breast cancer survivors. The organization was founded in 2003 by Alisa Savoretti who is a Las Vegas showgirl and breast cancer survivor herself. Not having insurance at the time of her diagnosis, Savoretti underwent a mastectomy and returned to Las Vegas just five months after chemotherapy, taking the stage as the “Lop-Sided Showgirl.”

Through her own life experience, Alisa Savoretti …

What Will You Do on 9/11? Volunteer Opportunities Around the Country

This Sunday will mark the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks in New York City. Like all of the anniversaries that have come before, there will be anniversary specials and discussions on every media outlet out there. This year, however, MyGoodDeed has partnered with HandsOn Network to “organize the single largest day of charitable service in United States history.”

MyGoodDeed founders Jay Winuk and David Paine remember the outpouring of support, love and generosity that they and many others in need received immediately after the attacks and through this effort, they hope to unite anyone and everyone across the country around that same giving spirit.

Below are several volunteer opportunities where you can lend a hand this weekend. There are events and a need for volunteers all over the country, so wherever you …

Nine West Fights Breast Cancer with Runway Relief Collection

For the second consecutive year, Nine West has released a mini collection under their Runway Relief Program which aims to combine the forces of the fashion and modeling industries in order to raise funds to aid in breast cancer awareness and prevention.

Three items make up the collection–a military-inspired boot containing a Runway Relief dog tag, a rockin’ black tank top and an amazing, road warrior-inspired messenger bag–with 100% of the proceeds being donated to Fashion Targets Breast Cancer, the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s charitable organization.

All of the items in the mini collection are available for pre-order now. The tank and military-inspired boot will ship on August 9 and the messenger bag will ship on September 6 just in time for fall collections.