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The It Gets Better Project started as a viral video movement, with more than 70,000 people sharing their stories in support of LGBTQ+ youth. Now, those videos are back with a fresh look and feel, and kicking things off is 23-year-old artist, director, and author Chella Man [[link removed]].

“Being deaf made me really wanna figure out… how can I express myself without sound,” Chella Man — who identifies as "curious, stubborn, Deaf, transmasculine, genderqueer, Jewish, and Chinese" — explains in his video. [[link removed]] “Going to school, so many hours... you just sit there with a pencil and paper for hours on end. And sometimes schooling wasn’t accessible to me, I couldn’t understand the teacher, I couldn’t hear the teacher, and I didn’t know sign language fluently. But I had a piece of paper and a pencil. That’s the place I felt most free.”

The reimagined look and feel of our It Gets Better videos mirrors a shift in how the art of storytelling has evolved over the years. This inside look at our subjects [[link removed]] takes viewers through their personal stories in an honest way and feels reflective of where today’s LGBTQ+ youth are: constantly evolving, consistently learning, and purposefully bold in being unapologetically themselves.

Chella Man’s video [[link removed]] is the first in a series of new It Gets Better videos, more of which will premiere this year.

Watch and share our It Gets Better video with Chella Man [[link removed]], check back for more It Gets Better videos coming soon, and check out our library of original It Gets Better content. [[link removed]]

Eboni Munn

Director, Brand Marketing, Content & Creative

It Gets Better Project

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