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Ask the Chicago Cubs to make an "It Gets Better" video
  1. Signatures
    1,747 out of 10,000
    Petitioning
    1. Director, Media Relations (+ 5 others)
      Petitioning
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      • Director, Media Relations (Peter Chase)
      • Executive Vice President, Community Affairs/General Counsel, Chicago Cubs (Michael Lufrano)
      • Manager, Community Affairs, Fundraising, Development and Events, Chicago Cubs (Connie Falcone)
      • President (Crane Kenney)
      • Major League Video Coordinator (Naoto Masamoto)
      • Vice President/General Manager (Jim Hendry)
  2. Created By
    Joe Hinton
    Chicago, IL
About this Petition Petition Letter Petition Updates
How We Won

Jun 04, 2011

The Chicago Cubs announced they will be the second team to make an "It Gets Better" video after more than 1,600 Cubs fans signed Joe Hinton's petition on Change.org. The Cubs are following the Giants' lead who released their "It Gets Better" video on June 1 in response to Sean Chapin's petition on Change.org. The Cubs have shown they truly care about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth!

You can watch the Cubs' It Gets Better video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcpkRL_5IYk

 

The San Francisco Giants have become the first professional sports team to make a video to make an "It Gets Better" video to help convey to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teenagers and young adults that it does in fact get better. More than 10,000 "It Gets Better" videos have been made by public figures, organizations, and corporations to fight the epidemic of suicides by kids bullied for being gay or perceived to be gay. 

Will the Chicago Cubs join them?

The Chicago Cubs' home, Wrigley Field, in East Lakeview,  is just a few blocks from one of the largest gay communities in the United States. As an effort to bridge communities in Chicago, an "It Gets Better" video by members of the Chicago Cubs would show unity with their gay and lesbian neighbors. To have a strong message of respect and hope for GLBTQ youth from role models in the professional sports world would be admirable and immensely helpful.

Let's come together to strengthen our community and prove that it does, in fact, get better.

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Support the fight against LGBT bullying and harassment by making an "It Gets Better" video

Greetings,

On behalf of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning community, and as a Chicago sports fan, I am writing to request that the Chicago Cubs help stand up against the bullying and marginalization of GLTBQ youth by making an "It Gets Better" video.

Studies in the American Journal of Public Health show that teenagers with same-sex attractions, or those in gay and lesbian relationships, are twice as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to attempt suicide. Additionally, GLBTQ teenagers are much more likely to be bullied or marginalized by their peers.

Recognizing this very unfortunate circumstance, the San Francisco Giants have recently agreed to make an "It Gets Better" video to help convey to GLBTQ teenagers and young adults that it does in fact get better. Adolescence is a difficult time for any teenager, but the tumult and harassment faced by GLBTQ youth can be particularly harmful.

The Chicago Cubs' home, Wrigley Field, in East Lakeview, is just a few blocks from one of the largest gay communities in the United States. As an effort to bridge communities in Chicago, an "It Gets Better" video by members of the Chicago Cubs would show unity with their gay and lesbian neighbors. To have a strong message of respect and hope for GLBTQ youth from role models in the professional sports world would be admirable and immensely helpful.

Let's come together to strengthen our community and prove that it does, in fact, get better.

[Your name]

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