Joel Burns: It Gets Better

Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns took time at a council meeting Tuesday night to make this extraordinary statement. He talks about being bothered by the recent suicides of gay teens across the country, remembers how it was for him as a gay teenager, and how he wants any young people who are considering taking their own lives because they're being bullied to know that life gets better; that they should stay alive to see society's attitudes change.

There weren't any young people in the Fort Worth city council chamber that night, but let's hope this video goes viral enough that millions of teens see it and are affected by it...

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