Second Pride is a major supporter of the LGBTQ+ community in Second Life for 19 years now. Providing resources and support through numerous activities and events. Two regions are maintained year round and offer a place to hang out and learn more.
Visit our Website: https://second-pride.com/
Second Pride also focuses outside Second Life and pick different organizations each year providing awareness and funding to them. This year’s fund raising effort will benefit the “It Gets Better Project“.
Since 2010, LGBTQ+ people and their allies all over the world uttered three words that would give rise to a global movement — it gets better. What started as a wildly successful social media campaign has turned into a global non-profit that reaches millions of young people each year through inspiring storytelling, educational resources, international affiliates, and access to an arsenal of community-based service providers.
It Gets Better envisions a world where all LGBTQ+ youth are free to live equally, connect to their communities, and know their power as individuals.
LGBTQ+ youth are three times as likely to struggle with self-esteem and half as likely to receive the support they need. It Gets Better aims to connect with LGBTQ+ youth before they experience crisis, connecting them to community and equipping them with the language, tools and resources they need to better navigate adolescence and their unique sexual orientation and/or gender identity journey. Their preventative efforts to support LGBTQ+ youth have a direct impact on their mental health, academic performance and overall well being.
Storytelling
Storytelling is at the heart of It Gets Better’s effort to empower LGBTQ+ youth around the globe. They share stories that inspire hope, stories that spark conversations, and stories that can inform and positively influence a sexual orientation and/or gender identity journey.
Education
It Gets Better EDU exists to ensure that their uplifting and informative stories reach LGBTQ+ youth and their peers wherever learning takes place. With an impactful youth ambassador program, student-driven grantmaking initiatives, and a growing library of free educational resources for educators and student leaders, thousands of middle and high school students engage with It Gets Better EDU programming every year.
Building Global Community
It Gets Better is the world’s largest storytelling effort to empower LGBTQ+ youth. Investing in local, like-minded organizations outside the US, It Gets Better brings story-telling and other life-affirming support to communities of LGBTQ+ youth around the globe.