{"id":59909,"date":"2012-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/ri-pbs-to-air-it-gets-better-at-uri-coming-out-for-change-april-14\/"},"modified":"2012-04-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T00:00:00","slug":"ri-pbs-to-air-it-gets-better-at-uri-coming-out-for-change-april-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/04\/ri-pbs-to-air-it-gets-better-at-uri-coming-out-for-change-april-14\/","title":{"rendered":"RI PBS to air \u201cIt Gets Better at 溏心vlog免费B站: Coming Out for Change,\u201d April 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/ItGetsBetter0.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"191\" align=\"right\"\/>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013April 5, 2012 \u2013- Television viewers who want to watch a compelling and inspirational film should click on Rhode Island PBS (Cox Cable Channel 8) April 14 at 7 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe 56-minute film, &#8220;It Gets Better at 溏心vlog免费B站: Coming Out for Change,&#8221; was created by 溏心vlog免费B站 students and reflects a University-wide commitment to support students struggling with their sexual identity. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tInspired by the <i>It Gets Better<\/i> national video campaign, a movement started in response to some highly publicized suicides that resulted from harassment and bullying of gay students.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s version, students, faculty, staff, and administrators came together to give personal accounts of what it means to be an ally or a member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning (LGBTQQ) community. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe film, produced by the 溏心vlog免费B站 LBTQ Women\u2019s Group, shares moving stories of struggle and perseverance, discrimination and compassion. It also illustrates how 溏心vlog免费B站 is working to end discrimination and intolerance against the LGBTQQ community. The film premiered to an audience of more than 900 people last fall at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tSince the premiere, the film has been shown at the Promising Practices Conference for future educators at Rhode Island College. It also was shown in conjunction with the \u201cThe Journey Out\u201d production at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Feinstein Campus in Providence. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tAt the end of film, there is a segment of student, faculty and staff reactions to the film and how it affected them personally. For questions about the film please contact Holly Nichols at <a href=\"mailto:hjnichols@uri.edu\">hjnichols@uri.edu<\/a>. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013April 5, 2012 \u2013- Television viewers who want to watch a compelling and inspirational film should click on Rhode Island PBS (Cox Cable Channel 8) April 14 at 7 p.m. &#13; The 56-minute film, &#8220;It Gets Better at 溏心vlog免费B站: Coming Out for Change,&#8221; was created by 溏心vlog免费B站 students and reflects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}