Love Makes A Family

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I am hoping to get this wonderful traveling display of photos presented at my children's school this coming year. We are fortunate to live in a very open community and my children attend a progressive school with an open mind and heart. Respect, tolerance and kindness are things we hold in very high regard.
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Love Makes a Family is a museum-quality traveling exhibit including photographs and interviews with families that have lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) members. Through first-person accounts and positive images, this exhibit seeks to challenge and change damaging myths and stereotypes about LGBT people and their families. At the most basic level, Love Makes A Family combats homophobia by breaking silence and making the invisible visible. By encouraging people of all ages - beginning in early childhood - to affirm and appreciate diversity, this traveling rental exhibit contributes to the process of dismantling the destructive power of prejudice and intolerance, thereby making the world a safer place for all families.
Designed for audiences of all ages.

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Elsasser-Robinson Family "Our family life is a very traditional American one - early morning getting up, eating breakfast, getting dressed, making sure everyone has matching socks, getting the boys off to school, and then going to work. At night, it's homework and getting ready for bed. Michael and I have been class parents in Zach's and Justin's classes every single year. We could not imagine living without children. It's a wonderful experience to watch our boys develop and mature."

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Stokes Family "Family means the people who look out for me and treat me with love and respect. My family are the people who are in my life practically every day. These people are my mother, her partner Jaqué, and my twin brother Edwian. We like to go to the park sometimes where we play basketball and baseball. I like to ride my bike with Jaqué especially in Prospect Park near our apartment. We all like to ride our bikes as a family and go places together. We always do things that include our whole family. Don’t be ashamed of who your parents are."