Exhibit
Love Makes a Family
Portraits of LGBTQ People and their Families
Photographs by Gigi Kaeser. Interviews by Peggy Gillespie.
Love Makes a Family is a museum-quality traveling exhibit which includes photographs and interviews with families that have lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer-identified (LGBTQ) members. Through first-person accounts and positive images, this exhibit seeks to challenge and change damaging myths and stereotypes about LGBTQ people and their families. There are two versions of the narratives, one designed especially for younger children.
Love Makes a Family can help prevent bullying behaviors and discrimination. By encouraging people of all ages — beginning in early childhood — to affirm and appreciate the diversity of sexual orientation and gender identity, this traveling exhibit contributes to the dismantling the destructive power of prejudice and intolerance. Love Makes a Family’s mission is to make the world a safer place for all people.
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.
"The quality of LOVE MAKES A FAMILY was beyond our expectations and the range of diversity expressed within the families represented, really made it something that a wide range of people could relate to. I am greatly looking forward to working with Family Diversity Projects again soon and would recommend this exhibit to everyone!"
- Nicole Chabot, Program Coordinator, Student Activities and Leadership Development, Wesleyan University
“When I first wrote Heather Has Two Mommies, the first children’s book to portray a happy loving family of a little girl with two lesbian moms, I had no idea how many families my book would touch and support. In a similar way, Family Diversity Projects touches people young and old with their ground-breaking exhibitions and books. Like Heather Has Two Mommies, their exhibits have both caused controversy and educated thousands of people about the moral equality of LGBT people and their families. These marvelous exhibits travel throughout the world to schools, colleges, libraries, community centers, houses of worship, workplaces, statehouses, and conferences. Wherever they are displayed, the FDP exhibits help to reduce discrimination and bullying of all people who are perceived to be “different,” leading to safer environments for LGBT children and adults. Simply put, the exhibits are unique tools in the fight to dismantle homophobia and transphobia.”
- Lesléa Newman, Author, Heather Has Two Mommies
