Approximately 200 students, faculty, and community members gathered on Bascom Hill to participate in the making of a video hosted by the LGBT Campus Center and UW Housing Wednesday.
The video entitled, ""Make It Better,"" focuses on the impact of bullying and harassment in the LGBT community and how to work toward eliminating homophobia.
The video campaign is in response to the ""It Gets Better"" campaign, in which people submit encouraging and positive videos supporting the LGBT community.
The video was organized to show statistics that represent how people in the LGBT community are affected by homophobia and bullying.
""I felt like I could help [with the event] because I feel like it's everyone's responsibility to help with something,"" UW-Madison freshman Zachary Pickett said. ""I'm really glad that there's so much support here from students and adults.""
People were separated into seven different groups. During filming, the groups walked in one -by -one to represent the high statistics associated with bullying against the LGBT community.
When the group came together at the end, the participants yelled ""Stop the silence!""
Students expressed excitement number of people who came out to support the cause.
""It's exciting that people actually care about awareness of the bullying that goes on against the LGBT community,"" UW-Madison junior Kate Wallner said. ""It's really something that we have to address not only within our university, but also within education systems throughout the country and the world.""
