Miller had not intended to write anything personal—“I have no taste for self-revelation,” he later wrote—but it seems to have spilled out from his pen, his typewriter, a reasoned and reasonably furious demand for respect. “I am sick and tired,” he wrote, “of reading and hearing such goddamn demeaning, degrading bullshit about me and my friends.” It was a great deal more than that, but in a way, Miller’s anger was it: a simple, loyal appeal on behalf of himself and his bullied friends.

Merle Miller and the Piece That Launched a Thousand “It Gets Better” Videos