If soldiers in Nazi prison camps, murderers in Alcatraz and Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption can spend years behind bars of iron in environments of hate, abuse and despair and keep it together enough to plot their eventual escape one day then YOU can too while waiting things out behind your bars of suburbia and judgementalism.

One month after posting a video testifying how much better life gets for gay people as they grow up, 19-year-old Eric James Borges – known as EricJames among his friends – took his own life for unknown reasons.

“It gets better” is a campaign designed to reassure gay youths who are struggling with acceptance that it won’t always be that way and to inspire them to soldier on.

Poignantly, given the circumstances of his death, Borges ends his video with a message of hope and encouragement, saying: ‘You have an entire life fit to burst with opportunities ahead of you. Don’t ever give up, and don’t ever for one second think that you’re not a valuable and beautiful contribution to this world.’

The caption for the video:

“It Gets Better Campaign” by EricJames Borges from Visalia, CA. My story is always hard to tell, even in a simplistic condensed form, but, “Many LGBT youth can’t picture what their lives might be like as openly gay adults. They can’t imagine a future for themselves. So let’s show them what our lives are like, let’s show them what the future may hold in store for them.” -ItGetsBetter.org

AGAIN: If you’re in an environment that is killing you – get OUT! If you have no possible way to get out or even if you’re just too broken to do what it takes to get out immediately then at MINIMUM stay internally strong and weather the storm by plotting your escape.

“Well, that’s exactly what we’re going to do. We’re going to devote our energies to sports and gardening, all the cultural pursuits as far as they’re concerned. In fact, we’re going to put the goons to sleep. Meanwhile, we dig.” – the Great Escape (movie)

Another video he made:

During the Republican presidential debate Saturday night, Rep. Ron Paul cited CREW’s research as he focused the spotlight on former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, whose ethical lapses landed him in our 2006 Most Corrupt Members of Congress report. We also filed an ethics complaint against the senator.

Instead of addressing the charges, Mr. Santorum responded with the tried and un-true GOP talking point that CREW only targets Republicans. Fortunately, many fact-checking reporters caught onto Mr. Santorum’s trick.

• The New York Times pointed out that our 2011 Most Corrupt list is bipartisan, with four liberal House Democrats on the list of 14 lawmakers. Three more Democrats merited dishonorable mentions.
• The Washington Post noted we’ve named plenty of Democrats as corrupt.
• ABC News explained that CREW “focuses its criticism on both parties.”

Mr. Santorum should take a lesson from CREW and just stick with the facts. To us it doesn’t matter if politicians are Republicans or Democrats, only that they’ve broken the rules.

Now that he’s back in the game, maybe Mr. Santorum finally will be forced to explain his unethical conduct.

Read CREW’s 2006 Most Corrupt Members of Congress Report

Other than the ethics stuff, I only have 1 other problem with Santorum and that is the gay stuff. He’s an okay candidate running on blue collar middle class principals and blah blah blah that is just fine – except for his handling of the social conservative nonsense. To some extent, abortion, but more so the gay thing. If he were the nominee, the headlines and media coverage would be about nothing but buttsecks and his opinion about it. What happened was that Santorum was explaining why he doesn’t think the constitution protects any and all sexual activity and that was why he opposed a Supreme Court ruling that struck down sodomy laws. Santorum claimed that the ruling opens a legal loophole that says you can do whatever you want to whatever you want with your genitals since it would be protected under the equal protection clause. The argument is a constitutional and legal one and has merit and should be debated – however, Santorum allowed himself to be a target for the issue after gay activists took his words to mean that there was some equivocation going on between being gay and raping squirrels. Santorum could have shined in response, but he didn’t. He is essentially correct on the questions raised in the argument, but handled the attacks in response to it so poorly that he should be disqualified as a candidate for that reason alone. In one of the debates he was asked what he would do if his son told him he was gay and Santorum responded that he would love him just as much as he did the second before he told him and would try to be the best father to him that he could. -A good answer, but he should have been saying that for the past 6 years when talking about the subject to crush the “you disagree with me, therefore you hate me” arguments leveled against him. Since he didn’t, he built up too much negativity that he cant fight against by just starting to now.

Santorum called the classification of his words a “jihad” by gay activists but… thats lame. and it’s a defensive argument coming way too late.

Gay activists also Google-bombed his name by linking to a website that proclaims that the word Santorum is henceforth slang for “The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.” Santorum himself participated in the innuendo making by making the following unintentional acronym on his website:

As far as the primary contests go:

Rick Santorum isn’t going anywhere. Despite a third place finish, he’s on his way to the Sunshine State. Newt is still speaking very kindly of Rick in public, knowing that he needs Santorum’s supporters if he does manage to turn it into a two person race with Romney, but he’s got to be annoyed.

For his part, Santorum is correct to note that he has now won exactly as many primary contests as Mitt and Newt. And as per number 4 above, he has no reason to leave. Newt may have all the momentum at the moment, but if he does trip and fall, number 2 above should tell us that there is an excellent chance that Newt’s backers will actually stampede to Rick, rather than “falling in line” behind Romney. If he can just put in another strong pair of performances at the Florida debates, he will remain well positioned to lurk in the background and wait for his opportunity.

bringin the lulz at the Bieber/Gomez expense

Jessica Lowndes, an actress on the CW show ”90210,” is trying to break into the music world – by releasing a song where she ridiculously poses as a straight woman wishing she were gay.

Lowndes released a single with the catchy title ”I Wish I Was Gay,” about a woman reacting to being cheated on by her boyfriend. Lowdnes repeats the words ”I wish I was gay,” and expresses a desire to ”escape those boys.” The song also bizarrely suggests that lesbians are more faithful than straight guys, a claim even gay site Queerty mocked.

The music video features a provocatively dressed Lowndes teasing a man and flirting with her backup dancers before confronting him with his infidelity, shaving his legs and smearing his face with lipstick.

Lowndes’ single is part of a larger trend of gay themes being used in contemporary music. The Huffington Post notes that “gay themes are quickly becoming a ubiquitous element of contemporary pop music.”

Female musicians in particular are promoting homosexuality and bisexual behavior. Pop star Lady Gaga is notorious for her advocacy of homosexuality, and included homosexual themes in songs such as ”Born This Way.” Singer Katy Perry explored bisexual themes with her 2008 song ”I Kissed a Girl.” X Factor competitor Simone Battle recently released a song and music video titled “He Likes Boys,” which expressed a girl’s unrequited desire for gay guys.

While the trend of increasing homosexuality in pop songs is certainly worrisome, Lowndes’ latest propaganda effort would probably draw more of a following if her singing were competent. After listening to Lowndes’ lesbian fantasy, most listeners would probably echo the sentiments of one reviewer, who declared: ”I wish I was deaf.”

If you find it an “omg thats so interesting!” story that a guy revealed that he’s hot for other guys while anchoring a tv show then the story is here.

Rugby loving Welshman Chris Birch was a 26 year old musclehead with a job at a bank, had proposed to his girlfriend and weighed…er…a lot (the UK article uses “stone” instead of pounds. too much effort for me to convert). When he suffored a botched “hey guys, check THIS out” moment doing a back flip, he broke his neck and had a stroke. He woke up alive…but with a love for cock. “I was gay [when I woke up] and I still am” he says. “I wasn’t interested in women any more. I was definitely gay. I had never been attracted to a man before – I’d never even had any gay friends. But I didn’t care about who I was before, I had to be true to my feelings.”

Mr Birch’s astonishing change saw him break up with his fiancée, ditch his job in a bank to retrain as a hairdresser and lose eight stone in weight.

He has now moved in with his  19-year-old boyfriend.

The now ex-rugby player, a flanker with his local amateur reserve side, had been attempting a back flip in front of friends on a field when he fell down a grass bank, breaking his neck and suffering the stroke.

He was taken to hospital where his fiancée and family spent days waiting anxiously at his bedside before he delivered the shocking news.

Mr Birch recalled: ‘I was gay when I woke up and I still am. It sounds strange but when I came round I immediately felt different.

‘I wasn’t interested in women any more. I was definitely gay. I had never been attracted to a man before – I’d never even had any gay friends.

‘But I didn’t care about who I was before, I had to be true to my feelings.’

Before the accident Mr Birch, of Ystrad Mynach, South Wales, had spent his weekends watching sport and drinking with his mates.

But he said: ‘Suddenly, I hated everything about my old life. I didn’t get on with my friends, I hated sport and found my job boring.

‘I started to take more pride in my appearance, bleached my hair and started working out. I went from a 19-stone skinhead to an 11-stone preened man.

‘People I used to know barely recognised me and with my new look I became even more confident.’

And here you thought only marijuana would make you gay…

I dont think either cheapens marriage but idk anyone whose against same sex marriage that also thinks divorce is awesome and there should be more of it. do you? the “people get divorced after not being married long, so people of the same sex should marry” argument doesnt make sense to me and i think its a losing line for the cause.

I get bein annoyed with someone whose a famous millionaire cuz she made a porn but im just sayin that the “divorce is a reason same sex couples should marry” isnt a good argument only cuz it doesnt change minds. i mean, if thats the argument then no same sex couples can get divorced. Rosie Odonnel and her lady were together for a decade before they got married and then they divorced within a year. if someone told me that is a mockery of marriage i would say theyre being silly but the same applies to heteros who find their love isnt sustainable after a short time as well.

Would you find the same valid point (whether you agree with it or not) in a picture showing Rosie Odonnel making the reverse point? That’s how you know this is a non-argument.

Meanwhile, on twitter:

All in all idk why people care about this.

In regards to the image above ^, I dont find it a biting satire cuz if you believe in God then you believe He does EVERYTHING. it’s fun to mock the gay curing thing but its no more stupid than thinking He’s helping you ace a test or win a football game.

The truth is that the clinic run by congresswoman Michelle Bachmann’s husband Marcus is no big deal. The left is attacking it because one of the services offered is help for people who don’t want to be gay. It’s appropriate to say something you think is silly, is silly, but the attacks on the Bachmanns have gone overboard for something that is such a non-issue. They’re not seeking out gay people and forcing them into re-education camps – they merely offer a service, which maybe you and I find silly, to people who want it.

The only thing I have an issue with about it is that it allegedly received Public funds (ie: taxpayer dollars). Public funds sounds scammy. but i dont care about her husband helping gay people not be gay if thats what they come to them for help for. I mean wtf do these haters want them to do? “NO bitch. you are condemned to a life of loving cock and theres nothing you can do about it”. i know a lot of people that love cock and anyone who also knows such people knows that that statement is not always true. so for the percentage its not always true for.. then… wtf is wrong with helping them out? my guess would be that you’re gonna be unsuccessful since the people who dont like the sex they get boners for probably have already changed without the aid of any clinic or spiritual help but what-the-fuck-ever.

I’m just as skeptical about a lot of holistic medical claims that the same hippies hating on Bachmann for support and endorse but i’m not a hypocrite like them and bash them for it. If it works for you then it works for you.

We have medical standards for the masses based on scientific knowledge and if you wanna go outside of them to try and get your cancer healed through massage therapy and meditation or you try to get your gay cured by prayer and Clockwork Orange style shock therapy (where you’re injected with something that makes you sick while youre forced to watch the gay porn version of Wild Hogs or a season of Glee) then fine.

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