@engineer,
engineer, I listened to an interview on NPR yesterday about this. They played at least part of the audio of your attached video
It really moved me.
When I see young gay people perservering in in being who they are, despite the bullying, insults, physical threats (and not just threats) I think to myself how much courage and how strong they must be.
It's amazing to me that those who pick on and torment them see them as weak. If it was the aggressor who was getting this treatment from others every day because of something they innately were, they'd probably give up and just hide their true self, or deny themselves.
I see this message as not just for gay teens (and adults), but for anyone who doesn't fit perfectly into some socially accepted parameter.
The definition of socially accepted changes drastically when you get out of high school especially. You're not foreced to be with the same people who treat you badly, day in and day out.
It does get better.