It Gets Better World Cafe

Join us for a community dialogue about the state of LGBT life in Greater Kansas City. Members of the It Gets Better Project http://www.itgetsbetter.org/ will guide participants in small group discussions at this World Cafe. At each group's table, the facilitated discussion will pose a series of questions to examine challenges in our organizations and community, develop a vision for improving conditions, and identify resources to implement that vision. The group's collective wisdom will generate actionable possibilities that you can apply to your personal and work life. We'll have refreshments to keep you fueled for the conversation. About the It Gets Better Project The It Gets Better Project's mission is to communicate to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth around the world that it gets better, and to create and inspire the changes needed to make it better for them. What is the It Gets Better Project? In September 2010, syndicated columnist and author Dan Savage created a YouTube video with his partner Terry Miller to inspire hope for young people facing harassment. In response to a number of students taking their own lives after being bullied in school, they wanted to create a personal way for supporters everywhere to tell LGBT youth that, yes, it does indeed get better. The It Gets Better Project™ has become a worldwide movement, inspiring more than 50,000 user-created videos viewed more than 50 million times. To date, the project has received submissions from celebrities, organizations, activists, politicians and media personalities, including President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Adam Lambert, Anne Hathaway, Colin Farrell, Matthew Morrison of "Glee", Joe Jonas, Joel Madden, Ke$ha, Sarah Silverman, Tim Gunn, Ellen DeGeneres, Suze Orman, the staffs of The Gap, Google, Facebook, Pixar, the Broadway community, and many more. For us, every video changes a life. It doesn’t matter who makes it.