RE: Joel Burns tells gay teens 'it gets better'

[darovids]

Great video!  Love your voice too ;)

[seandeeify]

Wonderful words scatter brained girlfriend!!!!!  Your post is perfect!!!!! Real! Thank you. I have no doubt that this will touch somebody who need you, if it hasn't already.

[salonpas12x]

NIce girl and nice words

[jpigues1]

You seem like a nice, down to earth person. Thanks for your video, and you are right about life. Sometimes you have to move away to really know how good life can be, as well as people...

[hardyfan245]

You are awesome. I plan on moving out to a big city with my girlfriend and the love of my life as soon as I can. Hate having to hear people bully gays and then knowing my parents probably won't accept it that I have a girlfriend

[VikingLady219]

I truly wonder if it will really ever get better. The scars are carried well into adulthood!

[prixator]

You are beautiful - not just for what you said in your video, but in every other way. Stay strong and beautiful! (And don't stop crying for things that make you sad, it's such an emotional cleanser to just cry it out - howl if you want - sometimes we all need to just cry it out.)

[kurohyou07]

That is an awesome outlook YoungHollywood.... It supports Joel's concept. You did it, and others will too. I am 51 years old, (although not gay) but was picked on by all the bullys at school because I hung out with all the 'underdogs'. I guess we choose our path. But I also met some of those people (the bullys) years later in life.... and surprise surprise! Maturity, fixed them! Some of them anyways. But youth is too fragile to wait for bullies to mature... we gotta stop it now!

[TheYoungHollywood]

@kurohyou07 I agree completely. As I got to be a senior in high school, people that had been my friends suddenly turned on me. I had gay friends who never got bullied, yet I was bullied for being different. They couldn't accept that I would rather pursue artistic things instead of being immature, and they hated that I spent more time with older people. A lot has to change. And sooner the better.

[nutsbutdum]

@TheYoungHollywood

Gorgeous smile! Never let internet trolls tell you who you are.

You're beautiful,.. and you know it;)

[TheYoungHollywood]

@nutsbutdum thankyou!

[TheYoungHollywood]

And thankyou to everyone else :) Your replies are really appreciated. Very sweet! -hug back-

[TheMidwestbear]

Amen honey! but speak up! you are beautiful!

[daveboy44]

You are such a sweet young woman. Your advice to "get out and get to a big city" was just what I did almost 30 years ago, and my life has been so much better since. You give me faith that the younger generation is smarter than I had thought. Thank you.

[gemini1766]

You're right, it applies to everyone who has been bullied in any way. Life gets better, if you want it to. Remember, how you experience life has a lot to do with how you chose to experience it.

[cinnabon87]

i just loved his video and your response was dead on! i am proof that it definitely does get better and our experiences make us who we are. adversity makes us stronger, we just need to bring out the love for ourselves because if we have that, then noone can ever hurt us :) *hug*