If you know a young person in crisis, can you please be sure that young person knows about It Gets Better and The Trevor Project? If you know a young person who is not in crisis — can you be sure? Ask. Be sure. We need to be diligent. As diligent as we need to be.

When our political leaders find it entirely acceptable to invoke homophobia and old stereotypes about predation to protect our children and our military from LGBT people, and those are the messages American children hear every single day — you’ve got to give them hope.

Kids are dying. It’s got to stop. We’ve all got to give them hope.