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Family Diversity Projects, a non-profit organization in Amherst,
MA, has created five award-winning traveling photo-text rental exhibits that tour
communities nationwide and internationally.
Our exhibits are perfect for diversity events in your:
- Schools (K-12)
- Colleges
- Corporations & Workplaces
- Libraries
- Houses of Worship
- Hospitals
- Mental health centers
- Conferences
- Museums
- Diversity Events
- Community Events
By educating people of all ages to recognize, support, and celebrate the full
range of diversity, our traveling exhibits are designed to help reduce prejudice, stereotyping, and harassment of all people who are perceived to be "different" from
the "norm."
Family Diversity Projects also provides speakers on diversity and workshop leaders for conferences and exhibit venues.
How to bring our rental exhibits to your community
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Funding
Thank you to the DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund for their recent support of Love Makes a Family.
Thank you to the Arcus Foundation for their generous grant for 2007-2008.
Funding for Love Makes a Family has been provided over the years by the following:
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Astraea National Lesbian Action Foundation
The Chicago Resource Center
The E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
The Funding Exchange
The Holder Family Foundation
The Icarus Foundation
The Patrick-Murray Inaugural Committee
The Tsunami Foundation
Many Generous Individual Donors
Thank you to our funders!
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Photos by Gigi Kaeser
Interviews by Peggy Gillespie
Exhibit Description |
Companion Book |
Testimonials |
Tour Schedule
Exhibit History |
Advisory Board
Exhibit Description
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, Love Makes a Family challenges
stereotypes about LGBT people and helps dismantle homophobia. The photo-text rental exhibit consists of ready-to-hang framed photographs and text. The
companion book, Love Makes a Family (published by the University of Massachusetts Press) was named the Best Book about Gay and Lesbian Issues by the Association of Independent Publishers.
Testimonials
Download Full Versions of Testimonial Letters
"I'm so glad we had the opportunity to show Love Makes a Family. I've had a
number of people personally thank me for bringing the exhibit to our
campus - even people who can barely say the word 'homosexual.' And the student newspaper
also wrote a wonderful, front page review of the exhibit. Now that the MA
Supreme Court has declared prohibitons against same-sex marriage as
unconstitutional, I hope that even more people will be interested in sponsoring Love
Makes a Family.
- Kimberly Mahaffy
Millersville University
"Love Makes A Family is one of the best traveling exhibits I have seen,
so easy to mount and to arrange. As I was about to take it down, a class of teenagers arrived from a nearby
high school. Never have I seen a group of kids so interested in looking at a photographic exhibit. They
read every word of the narratives that accompanied the images. I understood how mesmerized they were
because I had the same reaction when I viewed the exhibit. I'm certain that Love Makes A Family has had a strong, positive influence on everyone who has viewed it. I wish it could
travel to every school and library in our country, for it truly is a strong weapon against homophobia."
- Ellen Graf
Special Project Librarian
Main Branch, Boston Public Library
"The Love Makes A Family photo/text exhibit is rich in racial, cultural and sexual orientation diversity. The workplace is an ideal setting to deliver this positive message to an audience who otherwise may not see it. Working with the Family Diversity Projects to make this a reality was a pleasure!"
- Randy Lynch
Lucent Technologies, N. Andover, MA
"For the people of our community who were embraced by this exhibit and for the people of our community who
were challenged by it. I say thank you for the opportunity to have exhibited Love Makes A Family at Auburn University. The magnitude of this event was unprecedented in Auburn
University's history. It was the first GLBT cultural event ever on our campus."
- Barry A. Schreier, Ph.D.
Faculty Advisor, Gay and Lesbian Association
Auburn University, Alabama
"Love Makes A Family cuts through all the political arguments right
to the heart of the issue by showing the love, caring and connection that are so basic to all families. This
exhibit has been a great help to the ACLU in working to expand civil liberties. We hope that many other
organizations will be able to enjoy the same opportunity."
- Lisa Maldonado
ACLU field director
"Believers in free speech and other basic American values should welcome this contribution to information about who we are in all of our diversity. In showing that the family values which are important to so many have full application to lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals is a very important part of that process. Thank you for undertaking this important work."
- Barney Frank
Congress of the United States, House of Representatives
4th District Massachusetts
"Love Makes A Family is timely, clear, powerful without being dogmatic, emotionally potent without sentimentality. Its message is political to the extent that all good art is political - it tells humanity's truth. I would like to see every house of worship, every public school, every library, every possible public space exhibit this show."
- The Reverend Victoria Safford
Minister, Unitarian Society
"Thank you so very much for the use of the Love Makes A Family exhibit during the Equality Begins at Home week here in Northern Nevada. Your exhibit has contributed towards the development and awareness of GLBT issues here in our state. The exhibit was very well attended and very warmly received here by the local population. Know that your exhibit has made a significant difference on the road to fairness and equity in this state, the awareness that it raised and the intelligent discussions it promoted cannot be overlooked or dismissed. As you may have read in the press, the Nevada Legislature passed our own version of ENDA this spring--testimony, I think, that our work can be very effective ... Love Makes A Family is such a wonderful tool."
- Ben Felix
Northern Nevada Coordinator
Equality Begins at Home Week
"Your photo exhibits are an excellent way to put faces on people we often degrade because they are different. By showing them as people you remove them from the category of 'anonymous abstractions' and cause us to begin dealing with them as the real people they are. As we work to create awareness and understanding of those who are different, we value efforts such as yours to bring harmony to an often discordant reality."
- Earl H. Jones
National Education Association (NEA)
Tour Schedule (Partial List)
In order to meet demand, multiple copies of this photo-text rental exhibit were created. If your desired booking date appears below it does not mean the exhibit is unavailable. Please contact us to arrange your exhibition. For exact locations and times of a showing, please contact the people listed below.
| 2009 - 2010 |
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Dates
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Location
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Contact
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Through Nov 29 |
Church Tour around Kansas City, MO
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gretchenrenfro@yahoo.com |
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Through Jan 2010 |
Church Tour of UU Churches in AZ and Southern CA
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c_saunders1@msn.com |
| Sep 20 - Oct |
St. Gabriels Episcopal Church, Eastpointe, MI |
therealgirlpriest@yahoo.com |
| Oct 1 - 31 |
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
robert.a.pere.1@asu.edu |
| Oct 5 - 31 |
Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI |
katherinemiller@ferris.edu |
| Oct 12 - 31 |
Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL |
breynolds@ctschicago.edu |
| Nov 4 - Jan 31, 2010 |
Resurrection MCC Wellness Center, Houston, TX |
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| Jan 2010 |
UU Congregation of Frederk, MD |
office@frederickuu.org |
| Jan 15 - Feb 15 |
Murray State University, KY |
becky.atkinson@murraystate.edu |
| Feb 1 - March 5 |
Middlesex Community College, Bedford, MA |
welchm@middlesex.mass.edu |
| Feb 14 - 28 |
University of Georgia, Athens, GA |
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| Apr 1 - 30 |
Gay Pride Rockland County, NY |
dwilkins@vcs-inc.org |
Exhibit History
Love Makes A Family has toured to hundreds of venues. The traveling exhibit and
companion book have been featured in numerous magazine and newspaper articles across
the country including Time Magazine, Rethinking Schools, The Advocate,
Alternative Family Magazine, Smith College Quarterly, and USA Today. Here are just a few of the sites it has visited:
Corporations
- Citigroup, NY and Dallas
- Pfizer, Inc.
- Microsoft Corporate headquarters, WA
- Apple Corporation, CA
- Lucent Technology Sites nationwide
- IBM sites nationwide
- ACLU, CA
- Sun Microsystems, CO
- Medtronic
- Time, Inc., NYC
Colleges
- Washington and Lee University, VA
- Florida Institute of Technology
- Modesto Junior College
- University of Arkansas
- Kansas University Medical Center
- University of Wisconsin (many branches)
- Macalaster College, MN
- Hampshire College
- University of Toledo
- SUNY-Plattsburgh
- Duke University
- Yale University
- Princeton University
- University of Illinois (several branches)
- Lincoln Land Community College, IL
- Scripps College, CA
- Fordham Law School, NY
- Columbia University, NY
- University of Vermont
- University of Indiana
- Millersville University, PA
- University of Pennsylvania
- Brandeis University, MA
- University of North Carolina, School of Social Work, Chapel Hill
- Tulane University, Louisiana
- Auburn University, GA
- Carnegie-Mellon University, PA
Museum:
Churches
- Plymouth, NH Congregational Church
- UU Church of Hendersonville, NC
- UU Church of Northampton, MA
Schools
- Nightingale-Bamford School, NYC
- Shady Hill School, MA
- Abington Friends School, PA
- Little Red Schoolhouse, NY
- Common School, MA
- Masconomet Regional High School, MA
- Amherst School System (elementary-high school), MA
Advisory Board
Ellen H.Bettmann
Brooklyn, NY
Anti-Bias Education Consultant
EHB Consulting
Warren J. Blumenfeld
Northampton, MA
Editor: Homophobia: How We all Pay the Price
Kate Clinton
Provincetown, MA
Comedian/Writer
Debra Chasnoff
Berkeley, CA
Filmmaker/Director of It’s Elementary
Helen Cohen
Berkeley, CA
Film Producer of It’s Elementary
Tim Fisher
Washington, DC
Former Executive Director, Family Pride Coalition
Rodney Glasgow
Worcester, MA
Director of Diversity, Worcester Academy
Anna and Molly Heller
Somerville, MA
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE)
Kevin Jennings
New York, NY
Executive Director, Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Educators Network (GLSEN)
Bill T. Jones
New York, NY
Director: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Arthur Lipkin
Cambridge, MA
Harvard Graduate School of Education: Gay And Lesbian School Issues Project
April Martin
New York, NY
Author, Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook
Lesléa Newman
Northampton, MA
Author, Heather Has Two Mommies
Felicia Park-Rogers
San Francisco, CA
Former Executive Director, Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE)
Lynn Sullivan
Dean of Community Affairs
King & Low Heywood Thomas School, Stamford, CT
Bonnie Tinker
Portland, OR
Executive Director, Love Makes A Family, Inc.
Lorraine Tiven
Albany, NY
National Director of Peer Education
Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
Youth Advisory Board
Liza Mackenzie Styles
Amherst, MA
High School Student
Ekene Nwokoye
Medford, MA
Graduate, Tufts University
Ashley Watson
Northampton, MA
College Student
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