Gay Youth: It Gets Better

In response to the recent spate of suicides of American gay teenagers, Dan Savage has started the It Gets Better Project via YouTube.
Dan Savage writes:

"My heart breaks for the pain and torment you went through, Billy Lucas," a reader wrote after I posted about Billy Lucas to my blog . "I wish I could have told you that things get better."
I had the same reaction: I wish I could have talked to this kid for five minutes. I wish I could have told Billy that it gets better. I wish I could have told him that, however bad things were, however isolated and alone he was, it gets better.
But gay adults aren't allowed to talk to these kids. Schools and churches don't bring us in to talk to teenagers who are being bullied. Many of these kids have homophobic parents who believe that they can prevent their gay children from growing up to be gay—or from ever coming out—by depriving them of information, resources, and positive role models.
Why are we waiting for permission to talk to these kids? We have the ability to talk directly to them right now. We don't have to wait for permission to let them know that it gets better. We can reach these kids.
So here's what you can do, GBVWS: Make a video. Tell them it gets better.
I've launched a channel on YouTube — www.youtube.com/itgetsbetterproject — to host these videos.
"You gotta give 'em hope," Harvey Milk said.
They need to know that it gets better. Submit a video. Give them hope.

Teenage Gay Suicides: A "Sexy" Story?

Almost all of the UK papers gave over considerable space yesterday or today to the suicide of 18 year-old US student, Tyler Clementi - apparently after being outed by a flatmate secretly filming him having sex with a man and then putting the film on the internet.
The Daily Mail: 'He was spying on me': Student who killed himself after secret gay sex film made desperate cry for help on day of his death.'
The Independent: 'Student jumps to his death after roommate posts sex tape online'.
The Guardian: 'US student Tyler Clementi jumps to his death over sex video.'
The Daily Telegraph: 'Student jumps to death after being filmed having sex with man.'
The Times: 'Student Dead After Friends Broadcast Sex Video.'
The Sun: ''Taped Sex' Teen Jumps To Death'.
Daily Star: 'Degeneres 'Devastated' Over Suicide Teenager.'
It was the fourth reported sucide of an American teenager in September because of homophobic bullying.
There was also Billy Lucas, 15, Seth Walsh, 13, and Asher Brown, 13.
None of these other three boys' suicides were reported in the British press, though their youth arguably makes them all the more tragic stories.
Fagburn wonders if journalists being able to put something about a "secret gay sex tape" in a headline makes a teenage suicide a sexier story?

EDIT: A Fifth gay American teenager, Raymond Chase, 19, took his own life on September 29th.

Billy Lucas: 1995-2010

Billy Lucas, 15, took his own life because of homphobic bullying.
"Greensburg High School principal Phil Chappel said that officials were unaware of bullying against Lucas, but friends said the abuse was constant, and often directed to what the aggressors presumed about his sexual orientation."
This is happening too fucking often.

EDIT: Tragically I typed too soon, 19 year-old gay student Tyler Clementi, has also killed himself.