An extroardinary new You Tube video features men and women, dressed in one of the world's most distinctive and familiar police uniforms, talking about their sexual orientation.Where can i get monster beats cheap?
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Vancouver have released the video in which 20 gay and lesbian Mounties, and RCMP employees, talk about "coming out," bullying when they were children and the achieving lives they now live.
The video is part of "It Gets Better," an international campaign of personal testaments and support testimonials launched in 2010 by Dan Savage, Seattle-based gay celebrity and editorial director at The Stranger, and his husband Terry Miller.
"I think it's incredibly important for the youth to have positive role models to look up to when they feel like things aren't going to get any better," RCMP constable Cherly Letkeman, who organized the video, told the Vancouver Sun.
Canada has experienced, in a generation, a vast change in attitudes toward gays and lesbians.
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The fearless Robinson refused to be cowed, and once brought a male date (an Olympic swimming competitor) to the annual Governor General's Ball in Ottawa.
Canada now has widespread recognition of gay and lesbian rights.
Same-sex marriage is legal in the Great White North, albeit to the discomfort of some Conservative MPs in the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Gay ministers have sat in the provincial cabinets of Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia. Polls show gay rights support strongest in Quebec, the French-speaking province that was once dominated by its Catholic hierarchy.
Speaking against a backdrop of dress uniform jacket, stetson and the Canadian flag, the Mounties acknowledge that life has not always been easy.
"If you were gay, you kind of had to be an artist or a makeup artist or you worked in retail: You kind of had a job that wasn't necessarily masculine," says RCMP corporal Russell Olson.All Kinds of SAXO BANK Cycling Jerseys,Wholesale Top Quality and Lower price Team Cycling Jerseys .
They relate different parental reactions on coming out. "When I told my mother I was leaving the priesthood because I was gay, she cried for three years straight," sayd Mountie Robert Ploughman.
Ploughman's mother told him that being gay was "just a phase" in his life.
Olsen recalls a different experience: "My mum was super supportive and basically was just upset with me for the fact that she felt I was hiding myself from her. All she ever really wanted for me was to be happy and healthy, and be productive."
The nine minute video is largely the work of the Surrey (B.C.) RCMP Youth Unit. A similar video, produced by the San Francisco Police Department, served as inspiration.
President Obama has made an It Gets Better video. In Canada, New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton recorded a videBruyneel exits RadioShack Cycling after armstrong report release!o before his death. Ontarior Premier Dalton McGuinty has done It Gets Better, along with Canada's top comic Rick Mercer.Buy Cheap Moncler Jackets Men shop moncler jackets for sale .
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