အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံမွာ လတ္တေလာ ႀကံဳေတြ႔ေနရတဲ့ ဆယ္ေက်ာ္သက္ လိင္တူခ်စ္သူ လူငယ္ေလးေတြ မိမိကိုယ္ကို အဆံုးစီရင္တာနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ Hillary Clinton က ဒီေန႔မနက္မွာ လိင္တူခ်စ္သူ လူငယ္ေတြအတြက္ ခြန္အားေပး သတင္းစကားကို အင္တာနက္ You Tube ကေန စတင္ျဖန္႔ခ်ီ လိုက္တယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။

အဲဒီမွာ သူမေျပာဆိုသြားတဲ့ သတင္းစကားေတြကေတာ့ ခြဲျခားဖိႏွိပ္မႈေတြ မုန္းတီးမႈေတြနဲ႔ မွားယြင္းတဲ့ ေရွးရိုးစြဲ အျမင္ေတြရဲ႕ ခြဲျခားဖိႏွိပ္မႈေတြကို အထူးသျဖင့္ လူငယ္ေလးေတြက ပိုၿပီးေတာ့ ေတြ႔ႀကံဳရတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

အခု လတ္တေလာမွာ ျဖစ္သြားတဲ့ ကိစၥရပ္နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ က်မ အေမရိကန္ျပည္သူေတြ အားလံုးကို တိုက္တြန္းခ်င္တာကေတာ့ အဲလိုတယူသန္ အယူသည္းတဲ့ အစြဲေတြကို စြန္႔ပစ္ခဲ့ၾကပါစို႔လားလို႔ တိုက္တြန္းခ်င္ပါတယ္။

လိင္တူခ်စ္သူ လူငယ္ေလးေတြ အေနနဲ႔လည္း ႀကိဳးစားအားတင္း ထားၾကဦး။ ၿပီးရင္ လိုအပ္တဲ့ အကူအညီေတြကို ေတာင္းပါ။ နင္တို႔ေလးေတြရဲ႕ဘ၀က မိသားစုအတြက္ေရာ သူငယ္ခ်င္း မိတ္ေဆြေတြ အတြက္ေရာ ဒို႔တိုင္းျပည္အတြက္ပါ တန္ဖိုးမျဖတ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ ဘ၀ေတြျဖစ္တယ္ ဆိုတာကို သတိျပဳပါ။ လာမယ့္ အနာဂတ္မွာ မင္းရဲ႕ အရည္အခ်င္းေတြ မင္းရဲ႕ စြမ္းေဆာင္ႏိုင္မႈေတြကို ေဖာ္ထုတ္ႏိုင္မယ့္ အခြင့္အလမ္းေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးရွိသလို အဲဒီလို စြမ္းေဆာင္မႈေတြ အတြက္လည္း လူမႈအသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္းကို လုပ္ေကၽြးျပဳႏိုင္ဖို႔ မင္းမွာ အခြင့္အလမ္းေတြ အမ်ားႀကီး ရွိေနေသးတယ္ ဆိုတာကိုလည္း မေမ့ပါနဲ႔။

ဒီကမၻာေပၚမွာ မင္းတေယာက္တည္း အထီးက်န္ေနတာ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ မင္းနဲ႔အတူ မင္းရဲ႕အခြင့္အေရးတြက္ ၀ိုင္း၀န္းလက္တြဲ ေဖးမေနတဲ့သူေတြ အမ်ားႀကီး ရွိေနေသးတယ္။ မင္းအတြက္ ဆုေတာင္းေပးေနတဲ့သူေတြ မင္းနဲ႔အတူ အေဖာ္လုပ္ေပးေနတဲ့သူေတြ ရွိတယ္ဆိုတာကို မေမ့နဲ႔။ အဲဒီလူေတြထဲမွာ ငါလည္း တေယာက္အပါအ၀င္ ျဖစ္တယ္ဆိုတာကို မေမ့ပါနဲ႔။ ဘ၀ဆိုတာ အရမ္းတန္ဖိုးရွိပါတယ္။ ကိုယ့္ကိုယ္ကို ဂရုစိုက္ဖို႔ မေမ့ပါနဲ႔ လို႔ အားေပးစကား ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ပါတယ္။

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Clinton and Obama tell gay teenagers 'life will get better'

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton posted a video on YouTube on Tuesday. But her message wasn't intended for heads of state, diplomats or monarchs. It was for troubled gay teenagers.

"Take heart, and have hope, and please remember that your life is valuable, and that you are not alone," Mrs Clinton says seriously, looking squarely at the camera.

"Many people are standing with you and sending you their thoughts, their prayers and their strength. Count me among them."

On Friday, President Obama followed suit, releasing a message from the White House urging Americans to "dispel the myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage...it's not."

"I don't know what it's like to be picked on for being gay. But I do know what it's like to grow up feeling that sometimes you don't belong," Mr Obama says. "With time you're going to see that your differences are a source of pride and a source of strength."

These videos are the latest high-profile contributions to the fast-growing It Gets Better YouTube channel, a project started by Seattle-based sex columnist and author Dan Savage to provide hope and support to vulnerable and possibly suicidal gay teenagers.

In the past few months, at least seven American teenagers have taken their own lives after being bullied and harassed by homophobic peers.

That list includes 18-year-old Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi, who jumped to his death off the George Washington Bridge outside New York after fellow students allegedly broadcast a video of him having sex with a man on the internet.

Savage, who writes the widely-read, syndicated column Savage Love, had been mourning the death of Billy Lucas, a 15-year-old student who hanged himself in his grandmother's barn after being intensely bullied at his small-town school.

Kids at Billy Lucas's school called him a "fag" - a common taunt - and told him to kill himself.

Savage recalls wishing he had been able to talk to Billy Lucas and tell him not to harm himself because once you have survived the high school bullies, life gets so much better.

But, Savage told the BBC, he thought he would never get permission from a school or a church or even the parents of teenagers to talk openly to young people about being a happy gay man.

"It occurred to me that I didn't need permission any more," Mr Savage said. "I could upload a video and speak directly to these kids, and tell them before they commit suicide that it gets better."

Savage created the YouTube channel four weeks ago, uploaded the first video and used his column to encourage others to tell their stories.

He describes his campaign as somewhat subversive, going over the heads of parents, teachers and school administrators to talk directly to young people.

"We're not going to let accusations of recruiting children or brainwashing children or being sexually interested in children stop us any more. Lives are at stake," Savage told the BBC.

He had convinced his media-shy husband Terry - who had been brutally bullied as a teen - to appear with him. The couple share their stories, talking about the difficulties of their youth, the joys of their adult lives and urging teenagers to stick it out because life gets better.

"We were worried that we were maybe going to get three or four videos and look a little foolish," Savage confessed.

But his video soon went viral, and within weeks, more than 2,000 videos of people pouring their hearts out were uploaded from across the country and the world. The videos have been viewed more than 10 million times.

Savage is both surprised and proud of the response, adding that many of the videos have brought him to tears.

Young people and old, Mormons, Muslims and Jehovah's Witnesses, have all contributed.

One of the earliest videos posted is from Kitty in London, who admits to having harmed herself when she was younger. She wishes there had been a project like this when she was growing up in a small town.

Although Mr Savage didn't seek celebrity endorsements, numerous stars, including Neil Patrick Harris, Zachary Quinto and Chris Colfer from Glee, have recorded their own videos.

In a deeply emotional video, Project Runway style adviser Tim Gunn reveals that he tried to commit suicide at age 17.

The most watched video is of a city councillor from Texas, Joel Burns, who uploaded a moving video of an anti-bullying speech he gave during a recent city council meeting.

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