Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 19:49:28 -0800 From: glpcinat@ix.netcom.com (Mark McFarland ) (by way of glpcinat@ix.netcom.com (GLPCI - Jim Fagelson)) Subject: Fwd: Love Makes A Family Photo Exhibit "A family is a bunch of people, or not so many, who love each other," explains seven-year old Liza Mackenzie Styles, a second-grader who lives with her two moms, Stacey and Amy. Ashley's family is just one aong twenty diverse families represented in the photograph-text exhibit, Love Makes a Family: Living in Lesbian and Gay Families. In this traveling exhibit, photographs by Gigi Kaeser depict a variety of families with gay or lesbian grandparents, parents, and/or youth. Accompanying each photograph is text edited from interviews with family members conducted by Pam Brown and Peggy Gillespie. Love Makes a Family: Living in Lesbian and Gay Families was created to be used by people interested in bringing issues of family diversity, prejudice, discrimination, and civil rights to their community centers, churches and synagogues, universities, museums, and schools (K-12). We have two versions of the exhibit; one for K-6 and one for older students/adults. In addition to the exhibit itself, a Resource Guide, which includes the text of the exhibit, related articles, booklists, essays, and curricular materials, accompanies the exhibit. The exhibit has been endorsed by many national organizations: NGLTF, GLPCI, COLAGE, and PFLAG. Tim Fisher, the Executive Director of GLPCI, and John Nicoli, the GLPCI President, are on the Advisory Board. According to Sandra Gillis, Executive Director of PFLAG, "Love Makes a Family: Living in Lesbian and Gay Families reminds us all that the fundamentals of love and support are to be found in all types of families, including gay and lesbian families. At PFLAG, we find that ignorance about gay and lesbian people is the greatest barrier to strong and healthy families and communities. Love Makes a Family: Living in Lesbian and Gay Families can be an important tool for overcoming ignorance and homophobia in so far as it presents truthful images of gay and lesbian people in the context of family." Six copies of Love Makes a Family: Living in Lesbian and Gay Families are currently touring to cities and rural areas throughout the United States. It has been seen already at Princeton University, Cornell University, James Madison University, the University of Tampa. It is heading to Yale University, Tufts University, University of Wisconsin, Mt. Holyoke, and Hampshire College among others. To bring either of these exhibits into your community, please contact FamPhoto@aol.com and we will send you flyers, proposal booklets, and helpful information for you if you are interested in bringing the exhibit to your local schools. LOVE MAKES A FAMILY EXHIBIT SCHEDULE 1. February 1-28 Hampshire College, Amherst, Ma. Contact: Bernice Gero, Box GE Hampshire College, Amherst 0l002 413- 582-5532 2. February 1-28 Mt. Holyoke College Library, South Hadley, MA. Contact person: Susan Perry, Librarian. 3. February 1- 15 in Brewster, Ma--Rev. Jim Robinson, First Parish Unitarian-Universalist Church, Main St., Brewster, MA 02631 508-896-6554 4. February 1-20. Cambridge Friends School, Cambridge, MA Contact: Nancy Alach--After School Director, Cambridge Friends School 617-354-3880 5. Feb. 20 - March 18. Newburyport, MA. Reverend Steven James, Unitarian Church. Mailing address is ll River St., Byfield, MA 01922 508-463-9022 6. Feb. 22-23 OUTWRITE CONFERENCE, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA. 7. March 5-18. Murray Unitarian Church, 5050 N. Main St., Attleboro, MA 02703 Contact: 508-222-0505 church. 8. March 23 - April 5. Yale University, New Haven, CT. Contact: Maryanne Ludwig, BAGLA, PO 204242, New Haven, CT 06520. 203-436-1736 9. March 25 - April l9. Duke University. Contact: Kate Whetten-Goldstein, l0l Forest Court, Carrboro, NC 27510 phone 919-684-8012 10. March 20-April 30 New York Open Center, 83 Spring Street, NY 10012 212-219-2527 Also look for the exhibit in Aspen, Colorado either during gay ski week at the end of January - Feb. 4. If not then, it will be there in l996 spring or summer.