🏳️🌈 Just a reminder to all LGBTQ+ students/activists/artists ages 13-18: applications are open for our next class of It Gets Better Youth Voices! Join the group chat (yeah, there’s a group chat), participate in Pride, tell your story, help us plan programs, and more!
Read about all the amazing things you’d get to do as a Youth Voice ambassador, see what our Youth Voices did this past year, and submit your application now at itgetsbetter.org/youthvoices. Can’t wait to meet you all 💜
Check out Day 1 of It Gets Better: A Digital Pride Experience hosted by Peppermint & Mitch Grassi + Scott Hoying of Pentatonix! 🏳️🌈
“If you want to do Pride at your high school, you should be able to do it.” 🏳️🌈
Audy Mcdonald & Jessie Funes McDonald, a couple in Santa Maria, California, have made it a point to be out and visible in their community for kids who don’t often see themselves represented.
The couple brought the first Pride parade to their town and established HOPE (House of Pride and Equality) where they mentor individuals like Fernando (featured in the video.)
Their mentorship allowed Fernando to come out to his friends and family and he went on to organize his high school’s first Pride week!
Thank you, Audy and Jessie!
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