Towleroad reported on a campaign that wants to enable kids to speak out against bullying:
A new campaign, H8SUX, hopes to recruit kids to fight homophobia in schools by giving away free t-shirts to any teen who simply makes a special YouTube video pledge to speak out against homophobia at school and support gay marriage, according to its organizers. Director Luke Montgomery, who also created the well-known FCKH8 campaign (which he says has raised more than $250K for equality causes) says:
"We are recruiting kids to the cause of promoting the acceptance of homosexuality in schools. In a world full of bullies, suicide and hate, thousands of school kids wearing a pro-gay message in classrooms can be lifesaving and great. Kids are born gay, lesbian, bi and trans – and when I came out at 15, I was brutally beaten and left unconscious and bloody in a ditch. In 2012, kids should not be bullied and attacked just for being who they are. This free T-shirt will be a pro-gay billboard plastered on the chests of thousands of kids in classrooms across the nation. Our agenda is simple: to tell kids that it’s "OK4U2BGAY."
If you actually watch the campaign video above you’ll see that, like their last campaign, this is more of a commercial for their shirt shop than anything else but at least the video is (only very) slightly less obnoxious and annoying than the terrible FCKH8 one. Plus there’s a cute lad with a bow tie in it as well. And, I suppose, the intentions (well, the non-commercial ones at least) are good.
