It Gets Better at URI: Coming Out for Change is a 56-minute film created by URI students that reflects the University-wide commitment to support students struggling with their sexual identity. In the film, students, faculty, staff, and administrators give personal accounts of what it means to be an ally or a member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning (LGBTQQ) community. The film premiered to an audience of more than 900 people at URI in fall 2011.
It Gets Better at URI: Coming Out for Change shares moving stories of struggle and perseverance, discrimination and compassion.
The project was inspired by the It Gets Better national video campaign, a movement that began in response to the suicides of teenagers who had been bullied because they were gay.
It Gets Better at URI: Coming Out for Change shares moving stories of struggle and perseverance, discrimination and compassion. Produced by the URI LBTQ Women’s Group, it also illustrates how the University is working to end discrimination and intolerance. The expanded version of It Gets Better at URI, which will be shown on Rhode Island PBS on April 14 at 7 p.m., also includes student, faculty, and staff personal reactions to the film.
Since the premiere, the film was shown at the Promising Practices Conference for future educators at Rhode Island College and in conjunction with The Journey Out theatrical production at the URI Feinstein Campus in Providence.
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