Help Shape Family Equality — and See Some Films About Our Families

2014_FEC_SurveyThe Family Equality Council wants your help in shaping what the organization will do in the future. I hope you’ll take a few minutes and take their 2014 survey to share your experiences and priorities with them. Then read on to hear about some of the films about lesbian and gay families that they’re involved in developing and promoting.

First, Family Equality and Freedom to Marry just announced that they are helping to produce a feature-length documentary, State and Union: Lesbian Families in the Deep South, A Living in Limbo documentary. The film, co-directed by Carolyn Sherer and Lara Embry (a lesbian mom herself!) and produced by Michele Forman, was inspired by a photography exhibition by Sherer. It follows the lives of several lesbian families in Birmingham, Alabama, as they face social and legal limbo, and has been endorsed by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Birmingham Museum of Art. Alas, it won’t be released until next year — but I’m very excited about the fact that it will show lesbian families in a region where many people usually don’t associate with them, and where social challenges are high.

Second, TWO: The Story of Roman and Nyro, will be part of the LGBTQ Film Series at the 2014 Family Week in Provincetown. The film “documents the 12-year journey of legendary songwriter Desmond Child and his lifelong partner Curtis Shaw, and the extraordinary way they met and connected with Angela Whittaker, the woman who would carry their twin sons, Roman and Nyro, into the world.” Watch a trailer below.

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