This short film of kids with gay parents will guarantee a cheery start to your Monday morning.
The video was created while the filmmakers, Team Angelica, were researching and preparing for their new movie FREE. “We spent an afternoon at the South Bank Centre filming kids of gay parents — and straight parents — and bi parents and undefinable parents. And this is some of what they taught us,” they say on their website.
FREE will be a sequel to FIT, their 2010 feature film about a gay teacher and his encounters with six teens at an inner-city school. Stonewall, the U.K.’s largest LGB charity, executive-produced FIT and distributes it to every secondary school in the U.K. FREE will include some of the same characters as its predecessor, but be aimed at kids ages 7 to 11.
I’ve been thinking about the U.K. a lot this weekend as marriage equality began in England and Wales on Saturday. I lived in England for two years in the early days of Section 28, the Thatcher-era law that forbid the “promotion of homosexuality” by local authorities, including schools. To see couples able to marry — and kids like the ones below speaking out about their families — makes me realize just how much progress has been made in the last 25 years.