COLAGE, the national organization for people with LGBTQ parents, has just released its award-winning short film In My Shoes for online viewing. You can view it below in its entirety.
COLAGE’s description:
In My Shoes follows five youth who have lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer parents who give you a chance to walk in their shoes—to hear their own views on equality, making change, and what it means to be a family. It won the 2005 Audience Award for Best Short Film at the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival!
If you’re looking for more information from the perspective of teens and adults with LGBTQ parents, try: Let’s Get This Straight: The Ultimate Handbook for Youth with LGBTQ Parents, by Tina Fakhrid-Deen, for teens with LGBTQ parents (my review and author interview here), and Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is, by Abigail Garner, for older teens and adults.
Also, after the jump, information on COLAGE’s upcoming Voices Raised conference, the first conference for people of color with LGBTQ parents.
Contact:
Mark Snyder
Communications Coordinator
mark@colage.org
415-861-5437First Conference for People of Color with LGBTQ Parents!
COLAGE’s Voices Raised! Leadership Summit to Focus on Intersectionality of Issues among People of Color (POC) who have Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Parents (LGBTQ)
San Francisco – COLAGE: People with a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Queer Parent (LGBTQ) is proud to announce the Voices Raised! Leadership Summit, the first ever conference specifically for people of color who have LGBTQ parents to be held May 27-30, 2011 in Oakland, CA.
“Voices Raised is essential because it is the only space where I don’t have to chose between my identities as a Chicana and daughter of gay fathers. I don’t have to chose between gay marriage or immigration issues because other COLAGErs of color understand that both issues are central to my family,” said Heliana Maria Ramirez.
Renowned author Rebecca Walker, named by Time Magazine as one of the fifty most influential leaders of her generation, will be a special guest speaker and workshop presenter. She is an award-winning speaker, teacher, and bestselling author whose ideas about race, class, culture, gender, and the evolution of the human family challenge ideological rigidity and encourage fresh approaches to enduring conflicts.
Some of the workshop topics the summit will feature include written story telling, using social media to amplify the voices of people of color and LGBTQ families, intersectionality of movements and identities, media trainings, and strategies to connect with peers across the country.
The public is invited to attend book signings and a celebration during the weekend. Tina Fakhrid-Deen author of the new, groundbreaking book Let’s Get This Straight: The Ultimate Handbook for Youth with LGBTQ Parents, will be signing books at Laurel Bookstore in Oakland on Friday, May 27th at 7:00pm, and at Modern Times in San Francisco on Sunday, May 29th at 3:00pm.
Voices Raised in Celebration! will be held on Sunday, May 29th in Oakland to celebrate and support the Voices Raised! Leadership Summit and support the work COLAGE does to create a world that treats LGBTQ families with the respect and dignity all families deserve. Details to come.
For more detailed information or interview requests about the Voices Raised! Leadership Summit please contact Mark Snyder, Communications Coordinator, at mark@colage.org or 415-861-5437.
For more information about COLAGE: People with a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Queer Parent, please visit www.colage.org.
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If these are the kids our community is raising the world could do with more queer parents.
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