GLSEN Brings
"Love Makes A Family" To Cincinnati
from GLSEN 2/11/00
GLSEN, The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, is holding a March 31st premiere of the photo text exhibit "Love Makes A Family". The exhibit will remain in Cincinnati until April 15th, in changing venues. GLSEN is currently seeking co-sponsors and venues and will soon publish a list of exhibit sites.
"A family is a bunch of people, or not so many, who love each other." Liza, age 7.
Liza's family is one among twenty families represented in this exhibit of diverse families with gay or lesbian dads or moms, grandparents, and/or young adults. Together, the words and the images in Love Makes A Family show in a positive way, the existence, the love, and the power of these families.
At the most basic level, Love Makes A Family combats homophobia by breaking the silence and making the invisible visible. By educating people of all ages-beginning in early childhood-to celebrate and appreciate diversity, this touring exhibit contributes to the process of dismantling the destructive power of prejudice and intolerance, thereby making the world a safer place for all families.
The creators of the exhibit are writer/interviewer Peggy Gillespie and photographer Gigi Kaiser of Amherst, MA. LOVE MAKES A FAMILY: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People and Their Families "help children learn early on that people who are different are to be respected and cherished," according to Gillespie. The book version of the exhibit has been published by the University of Massachusetts Press and is available at Crazy Ladies Bookstore.
Love Makes A Family is distributed by Family Diversity Projects, a nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about issues related to the diversity of family life. Family Diversity Projects created touring photo-text exhibits and books to help eliminate prejudice, stereotyping, name-calling, and harassment of people who are discriminated against due to race, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and mental disability.
If you wish to co-sponsor, or display the exhibit, or if you wish more information, call GLSEN's co-chair Kathy Laufman at 221-1670.
