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Hey gang, it's March 22nd.

That's the day this podcast goes out.

And it's also the day the It Gets Better book is going to be released.

If you're hearing my voice, I'm actually in New York City today.

There's going to be a reading tonight.

You can find out all the details at It Gets Better.org, where the schedule for the book tour is posted.

I wanted to say a couple words before we got rolling about the White House's anti-bullying conference that I was invited to a couple weeks back and I attended never been

to the White House before. It was kind of crazy. If you've ever seen one of those Rube Goldberg

contraptions where they move an egg through this enormous machine and ends up traveling a great

distance, a little raw egg and the point of the machine is to take this egg and move it along

and get to the end of the apparatus and not have broken or dropped the egg.

Going to the White House is like being that egg.

Every step of the way, you're sort of passed off, handled, moved along this assembly line until you're finally deposited outside the White House grounds at the end of the day.

It was very interesting.

I was happy to be invited to the anti-bullying conference.

Again, I've been a very vocal critic of the Obama administration on gay issues,

and it is very grown up of them.

All the aggressive critics of the administration that were invited to the Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Repeal signing last year and now the anti-bullying conference, which included me.

Anyway, I wanted to say a couple of words about the bullying conference.

I was a little disappointed, as was reported here or there.

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