| * In 2010, journalist Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller created the It Gets Better project. This site appeared after a series of suicides among LGBT teenagers in the United States, it hosts videos in which politicians, actors, musicians, private people - from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama (read on the 4th cover) - tell teenagers that with age they will be able to overcome all difficulties and a life full of happiness, love and understanding awaits them. The New Times is picking up the idea—in other territory. |
The New Times asked famous people: "What would you say to teenagers who find out they are homosexual"?*
Renata Litvinova, actress:
When you are alone against everyone, you need to have strength and knowledge inside yourself that the time will come when, going against everyone, but saving yourself, you will be right. This is a wish for the strong. I do not know how much suffering and humiliation you will endure, but the obsession of a loner is stronger than even death.