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In response to the suicide of a bullied gay teenager in Indiana<\/a>, a project telling stories of those who have survived such mistreatment when they were younger and gone on to be happy has been started, emphasizing \u201cIt Gets Better<\/a>\u201d (HT Pharyngula<\/a>):<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/7IcVyvg2Qlo?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0<\/p>\n

But as Jen McCreight shared<\/a>, you may not be able to get cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles on them.<\/p>\n

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If you are reading this and have been a victim of bullying and discrimination for any reason, let me add my voice to those of others in the video series I\u2019ve linked to: You should choose to live, to survive, to believe that it gets better<\/a>. Because it does. And you make your own cupcakes. (In fact, then it not only gets better for you, but you bring joy to those around you too).<\/p>\n

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