In 'It Gets Better' Video, Adam Zelasko Of 'Big Gay Italian Wedding' Talks Suicide
Adam Zelasko, who plays Mario in the off-Broadway musical-comedy
My Big Gay Italian Wedding, says he thought about committing suicide in an It Gets Better video.
Sex advise columnist Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project encourages troubled
gay teens considering suicide to hang in there and not cave in to bullies,
because life gets better.
“I did have thoughts of suicide,” Zelasko says in the video that also features
other cast members of the play. “I did think about killing myself. And I
had a great life. I had great parents. I lived in a great town. I had everything going for me except for being gay and I hated that. And I was lucky enough
to have some really good friends that I thought if they ever killed themselves
and left me that I would not know what to do. And I could never, ever do
that to somebody else.”
“And if you don't think you have somebody out there that thinks of you
that way you're wrong,” he adds. (The video is embedded in the right
panel of this page.)
Celebrities and high-profile politicians who have created videos for the
It Gets Better Project include President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary
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