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| A Message from President Barack Obama |
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| You Will Find Your People |
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| In the Early Morning Rain |
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| Something Has Changed Within Me |
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| You Are a Rubber Band, My Friend |
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| The Person Worth Fighting For Is You |
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| A Message from Ellen DeGeneres |
| | 38 | (2) |
| 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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| Lance Corporal James Wharton |
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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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| A Message from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton |
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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 |
| | 71 | (3) |
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| How It Got Better for an Ordained Christian Minister |
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| Professor Stephen V. Sprinkle |
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| | 82 | (5) |
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| A Message from Prime Minister |
| | 94 | (2) |
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| You Will Meet People Who Celebrate You |
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| A Message from Suze Orman |
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| Growing Up Gay ... and Kinky |
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| | 117 | (4) |
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| A Message from Senator Al Franken |
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| It Gets Better (Btkoun Ahsan) |
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| Will I Grow Up to Be Paul Lynde? |
| | 140 | (2) |
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| A Message from Nancy Pelosi |
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| Perfect, Just the Way You Are |
| | 151 | (2) |
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| | 153 | (5) |
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| A Message from John Berry |
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| It Gets Better Because You're a Little Different |
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| I Didn't Always Wear a Tuxedo |
| | 201 | (4) |
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| Save Yourself, Save the World |
| | 211 | (2) |
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| Becoming an Authentic Person |
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| A Message from Kevin Hague, MP |
| | 226 | (2) |
| 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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| | 238 | (2) |
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| Lesbian Teacher Believes in You |
| | 243 | (2) |
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| Stepping Off the Sidelines |
| | 245 | (3) |
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| | 248 | (6) |
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| You Are a Beloved Child of God |
| | 254 | (2) |
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| Transgendered and Self-Educated in Maine |
| | 256 | (5) |
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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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| Protect and Serve Loves Semper Fidelis |
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| | 279 | (3) |
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| | 282 | (5) |
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| Patience Makes Perfect... Sense |
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| Christian LGBT Kids: You're Part of the Plan |
| | 289 | (2) |
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| | 291 | (3) |
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| From Scared to Proud: The Journey of a Gay Medical Student |
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| You Can Live a Life That's Worth Living |
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| Some Curriculum Guidelines for Schools and Teachers |
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| GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) |
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