It Gets Better Campaign Enlists MTV to End LGBT Youth Bullying

Sex columnist and It Gets Better Project co-founder Dan Savage will host his second 60-minute MTV special, featuring stories of LGBT youth who've come out to their family.

Savage tells Mashable that MTV's young audience -- not just LGBT kids who may be experiencing bullying -- are his target for the special.

"We'll reach more people with our hour long specials on MTV, because that's the power of TV, it's where middle schoolers and high schoolers are," Savage says. "We're not just reaching LGBT kids on MTV. We always want to acknowledge and normalize the queer kids, but straight kids will also see it and they're potential perpetrators or bystanders to bullying."

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