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If you're ready to cry into your evening bowl of ice cream bon bons, grab all the Kleenex ever made, and get into this Anti-Defamation League video. It imagines a world that still has Martin Luther King, Anne Frank, Matthew Shepard, and many other wonderful souls because it's a world without hate crimes. I'm…
Major breakthrough: In a study conducted on a group of 2,500 high-risk gay men, researchers found that taking a daily dose of HIV-treatment drugs may actually help to prevent contracting the virus by as much as 70%.
President Obama has released a video supporting Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project in which he urges troubled kids to reach out to adults and says, "We've got to dispel the myth that bullying is a normal rite of passage."
Although Dan Savage's "Masturbate to Christine O'Donnell Day" is a questionable idea, we love his It Gets Better Project, in which he reaches out to LGBT kids to "show them what the future may hold in store for them."
Hope campaigned hard for a comeback this year, but in a CNN poll of 1,160 Americans only 51 percent said they're hopeful for the world, down from 68 percent in 1999. Are you optimistic about the next decade? [CNN]
