From Whitehouse.gov

Imagine you're a gay kid in Edgefield , SC or Olney, IL or Gadsden, AL and you go the the President's web site and see this:

This is huge. 

The LGBT page also includes this powerful It Gets Better video:

Coming Soon: It Gets Better, The Book

More Broadway Stars: It Gets Better

Randy Roberts Potts: It Gets Better

Oral Roberts' gay grandson has a message for his Uncle Ronnie, Oral's gay son who took his own life in 1982:

It Gets Better Broadway

h/t LC NY Bureau Chief Doug

Nancy Pelosi: It Gets Better

So, President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton and now Speaker Pelosi have posted videos to the It Gets Better Project.  Have any prominent Republicans done so?   

President Obama: It Get's Better

Say what you will about the President's record on gay rights (and I have many times), but for the President of the United States to speak directly to gay kids from the White House is huge.  This came on the same day as new Pentagon rules requiring service secretary approval for any discharge under Don't Ask/Don't Tell. 

"In a memorandum dated Oct. 21, Mr. Gates said that “until further notice,” only five senior Defense Department officials, all civilians, would have the authority to expel openly gay service members. As the memo explained it, the relevant service secretary — either the Secretary of the Army, Navy or Air Force — has to consult with the Pentagon’s legal counsel, Jeh C. Johnson, and the undersecretary for personnel, Clifford L. Stanley, before the three can make a group decision on whether a gay service member should be forced out of the military. Until Thursday the decision was in the hands of a far larger number of less senior military and civilian officials."