12-Year-Old Asks Red Sox to Fight Homophobia

via WickedGayBlog.com by WickedGayBlog.com on 6/1/11

Inspired by his late uncle, who felt passionately about preventing antigay bullying, 12-year-old Sam Maden has launched a campaign to ask the Boston Red Sox to make an "It Gets Better" video and help fight homophobia in sports.

In the past 24 hours more than 5,000 people already have joined the petition launched by Maden on Change.org, according to a news release. The seventh-grader from Nashua, N.H., generated the idea for a school project about making a difference in the world when he thought of his uncle Chris, who died unexpectedly in January at age 43 and believed strongly in the importance of ending the bullying of gay children and young people perceived to be gay. Full story here!

Thanks to my buddy BosGuy for originally tipping me to this story!