{"id":874,"date":"2007-08-10T09:12:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/874"},"modified":"2007-11-18T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T02:02:09","slug":"if-only-they-had-psas-like-this-for-gay-teens-back-when-i-was-one-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/874","title":{"rendered":"If Only They Had PSAs Like This For Gay Teens Back When I Was One Myself…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I might have actually done something like this…<\/p>\n

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This touching little video is from a TV commercial for the Norwegian Lesbian and Gay Rights movement (LLH). The text at the end, according to one commenter on YouTube (who presumably reads Norwegian) says “You don’t have to be THAT brave.” The number is for a information hotline for gay youth.<\/p>\n

And before you ask…I did a lot<\/em> of digging around for the background song on this. Apparently a lot of other people besides me would love to have a copy of it. But don’t go looking around on iTunes because it’s not there, or anywhere else. It was recorded especially for this PSA, and so for as I can determine, has not ever been released for purchase by the general public. Here are the lyrics…<\/p>\n

Were dancing you and me its our destiny
\nBaby you and me
\nMake up your mind
\nLike I told you a 1000 times
\nEverything will be just fine
\nIf I can’t see you tonight
\nI know my love will grow stronger<\/p>\n

(chorus)
\nI’ll be dreaming of you
\nLike everything is bright and blue
\nAnd I’ll be here waiting
\nBut not for so long (so long)<\/em><\/p>\n

If I could have one song for my comic series A Coming Out Story<\/em>, this would be it. I doesn’t become an obvious match though, until the last half of the series, and I’m only still in the beginning of the first half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I might have actually done something like this… This touching little video is from a TV commercial for the Norwegian Lesbian and Gay Rights movement (LLH). The text at the end, according to one commenter on YouTube (who presumably reads Norwegian) says “You don’t have to be THAT brave.” The number is for a information […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,12],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gay-youth","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}