![]() It was all hardened with rocks from being plowed and it scraped the skin off my face." "At one point I had a pretty bad bullying incident where I was thrown down on some sort of hardened snow in the school parking lot and they shoved my face into it. ![]() ![]() "I couldn't walk down the hall without getting spit at, shoved or pushed around," he says. He was teased for how he dressed, how his voice sounded and how he expressed his feelings. But when he was growing up in Spokane, Wash., he says, high school was rough - really rough. Terry Miller is now a stay-at-home father and event promoter living in Seattle. Terry Miller's And Dan Savage's Own High School Experiences In an interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross, Savage and Miller talk about their marriage, the adoption of their son D.J., the impact their movement has had on teenage bullying, and their own coming out experiences. This month, Savage and Miller published a companion book, It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying and Creating a Life Worth Living, featuring essays from more than 100 of the video contributors. ![]() President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Silverman, Tim Gunn, Ellen DeGeneres, Vice President Biden, Ke$ha and the staffs of Google, Facebook and Pixar all have contributed to the project. ![]() The "It Gets Better" movement, as it's now called, has since received over 10,000 video submissions, including entries from both gay and straight people. ![]()
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