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Revert. I'm sorry, but this is original research, among other things. There's no source connecting the use of the phrase in some TV show to the subject of this article. And even if, it's a common phrase, nobody denies this.
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{{Details|It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living}}
In March 2011, ''[[It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living]]'', a book of essays edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller on the same theme as the web video project, was released. It contains more than 100 essays,<ref>{{Cite news |publisher=NPR |url=http://www.npr.org/2011/03/23/134628750/dan-savage-for-gay-teens-life-gets-better |date=March 23, 2011 |title=Dan Savage: For Gay Teens, Life 'Gets Better'}}</ref> some transcribed or expanded from the videos and others original. Contributors include [[Jennifer Finney Boylan]], [[Gregory Maguire]], [[Meshell Ndegeocello]], [[Michael Cunningham]], [[Suze Orman]], and [[David Sedaris]]. The book is published by [[Dutton Penguin]]. It made the ''New York Times'' bestseller list.<ref>{{Cite news |work=The New York Times |url=http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2011-04-10/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html |date=April 10, 2011 |title=Hardcover Nonfiction |first=Jennifer |last=Schuessler}}</ref>
 
==Prior media references==
The phrase "It Gets Better" was used in popular media to console a teenager at least once years before the founding of this project.
* 2006-11-20 In the [[Heroes_(TV_series)|Heroes]] episode [[Homecoming (Heroes)|Homecoming]], the character [[Peter_Petrelli|Peter]] consoles the ''teenage'' character [[Claire_Bennet|Claire]] that "It gets better"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Memorable quotes for "Heroes" Chapter Nine 'Homecoming' (2006) |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0875355/quotes?qt=qt0322770 |accessdate=2011-10-03 }}</ref> in response to her lamenting her unpopularity in highschool.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Homecoming |episodelink=Homecoming_(Heroes) |series=Heroes |serieslink=Heroes_(TV_series) |network=NBC |airdate=2006-11-20 |season=1 |number=9 |minutes=30:42 |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0875355/quotes?qt=qt0322770 }}</ref>
 
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