It Gets Better

Drop in the replies: questions about queer people you're afraid to ask!

Every December, we host a year-end stream so LGBTQ+ youth can have a safe holiday space. This year, our Youth Voices will be answering YOUR questions!

Reply here!

🔗 Or use the form to be anonymous: forms.gle/D5EQQT3sNxAXrH5t5

Allies, it's time to STAND UP like Noah and Sara Wyle. In a special #GivingTuesday message, they wrote - "Every young person should have the freedom to explore their identity and discover what they’re passionate about without fear of judgment or discrimination." Join them itgetsbetter.org/donate

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ PSA: this year, merch is 20% off through the END OF THE YEAR!

If you're participating in the #EconomicBlackout on Black Friday, we got you - you can still grab gifts that give back to our work through December 31st!

Shop now (or later) at itgetsbetter.org/shop to support LGBTQ+youth.

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ PSA: this year, merch is 20% off through the END OF THE YEAR!

If you're participating in the #EconomicBlackout on Black Friday, we got you - you can still grab gifts that give back to our work through December 31st!

Shop now (or later) at itgetsbetter.org/shop to support LGBTQ+youth.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Hitting today with gratitude for our entire community and for all of our supporters. Always thankful for YOU and your support of LGBTQ+ youth. We even have some thanks for the haters. Read on to see why. #thanksgiving #itgetsbetter

🌈 You give, we give! 🌈

Donate $100+ to help us reach $150k for LGBTQ+ youth, and we’ll send you Perfectly Queer, our conversational card game!

190+ cards with 4 intensity levels, perfect for playing with friends, GSA club, or family.

Donate + snag your free copy here: itgetsbetter.org/donate

PSA: @humblebundle.com is re-releasing their home how-to guide book bundle, benefitting us!

Get 36 (!!) home and garden books for only $18, and support LGBTQ+ youth while you do it:

🔗 Get it now through 12/15: humblebundle.com/books/blackdecker-home-howto-guides-books-2025-encore

Donate to It Gets Better EOY 2025-2026 Campaign Support It Gets Better and make a world of difference for LGBTQ+ youth. Your gift fuels leadership training, mentorship, and community-building—helping young people grow into confident, thriving adult...

We have a goal to hit $150,000 by Jan 1 so we can continue this work in 2026, but we need you.

Help youth step back to see The Bigger Picture - that they're loved, valued, and have a whole community out there supporting them.

Donate here and repost to spread the word: itgetsbetter.org/donate

imi Free guides built for and with LGBTQ+ teens to help you explore your identity and support your mental health.

🟣 And helping us create storytelling campaigns, build digital safe spaces (have you checked out imi.guide or chatted with us on Twitch yet?), and develop resources and workshops so queer youth can advocate for themselves and each other.

8 Young Activists, 8 Powerful Voices – Meet Our Youth Voices for Fall/Winter 2025 By Raelee Sweet I am incredibly proud to announce the eight young activists who will be joining It Gets Better for our Fall/Winter 2025 Youth Voices cohort! These young emerging leaders will spend the...

🟣 Backing our Youth Voices program, where LGBTQ+ young people learn to tell their stories and fight for the change they want to see...

It Gets Better: Changemakers Empowering the Next Generation of LGBTQ+ Youth Changemakers. If you can dream it, we want to fund it

🟣 Moving $1.6 million into more than 170 youth-led Changemakers projects that are changing schools and communities from the inside out...

$150,000 for LGBTQ+ youth, by the end of the year.

Can we do it?!

It’s so easy to feel powerless right now. But you can actually help us create very real, very powerful moments that uplift and support LGBTQ+ youth.

When you donate at itgetsbetter.org/donate, your support helps fuel things like...

🏳️‍⚧️ NEW on the blog from our 15-year-old Youth Voice Jay: the importance of team sports for trans kids like him.

"When our only option is to play for the team of the opposite gender, most of us just decide to give up on sports entirely."

🔗 Read it: itgetsbetter.org/just-another-runner-on-the-team

This #TransAwarenessWeek, we honor every trans and nonbinary person who speaks up, takes up space, and reminds us visibility is powerful, language matters, and knowing who you are has no age limit.

Your story, your voice, and your identity deserve to be seen and celebrated — today and every day.

🏳️‍⚧️ PSA: you can stream Heightened Scrutiny at home on Gathr for Trans Awareness Week (Nov 13–20)!

The film follows ACLU attorney Chase Strangio's fight to overturn TN’s ban on gender-affirming care.

🎟️ Rent your ticket or Pay It Forward to gift a rental: gathr.com/vod/9320a621/heightened-scrutiny

Jim Obergefell celebrates U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of Kim Davis’s marriage equality challenge “I hope the Supreme Court halts further attempts by public officials to use their personal faith to deny others their civil and human rights,” the civil rights icon told The Advocate.

“I hope the Supreme Court halts further attempts by public officials to use their personal faith to deny others their civil and human rights,” the civil rights icon told The Advocate.

US supreme court rejects call to overturn decision legalizing same-sex marriage Justices turn away appeal from former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples

❌ Appeal rejected for now! Same-sex marriage remains as it is: "The justices, without comment, turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples."

Fill out your interest form here: forms.gle/pta7UhfjNaeJdxM26

Join us for things like...

🟣 Building a Pride Village in Minecraft

🟣 Celebrating milestones in The Sims

🟣 Playing DBD for Halloween

🟣 Opening presents on our Chosen Family holiday stream

🟣 Just chatting about LGBTQ+ identities, coming out, and more

🟣 And charity streaming to support our work!

Graphic that shows screengrabs of two of our prior Twitch streams: Pride Village in Minecraft, and our Chosen Family holiday stream. Text reads, "Stream with us on Twitch! Queer streamers: apply now to work with us on Twitch to create a safe space for LGBTQ+ youth!"

Stream with us! 🎮🌈

Calling LGBTQ+ streamers: apply now to stream with us and help us continue creating a supportive community for LGBTQ+ youth on our channel!

Paid & volunteer charity streaming opps are available - we review apps on a rolling, as-need basis.

Apply now: forms.gle/pta7UhfjNaeJdxM26

happy gay christmas, what are we going as this year?! 👻🎃 1 of 4

#itgetsbetter #gayhalloween #gaymemes

(would love if y'all reposted for LGBTQ+ youth who might need a resource like this)!

🎉 200,000 viewers! 🎉

imi has now reached over 200K LGBTQ+ youth & allies, exploring a space made for and with our community.

Keep it growing by visiting imi.guide and exploring activities, articles, and videos about stress, stigma, queerness, & gender - there's a safe exit button on every page.

Have a 🩸BLOODY🩸 good time with us in @deadbydaylight.com as @chlohno.bsky.social, @sarahdominist.bsky.social, @thejustryan.bsky.social, & Behind_TheLash play survivor in Haunted by Daylight & highlight our partnership with @americanredcross.bsky.social!

10/30 @ 5pm ET/2pm PT: twitch.tv/itgetsbetter

To make it easier, follow people like @reasonsforhope.bsky.social, @upliftingnews.bsky.social, @progressntwrk.bsky.social, @sambentley.bsky.social and @itgetsbetter.bsky.social and turn on their bells.

They don't just show wholesome things, they let you know good things are being done in the world.