OUTSpoken “Family Voices” to run on Mombian.com
David on Jun 5th 2007
On Tuesdays throughout the summer, our friend Dana Rudolph at Mombian.com will be posting interviews from a handful of our OUTSpoken families. The series is titled “Family Voices” and the first installment was posted early this morning. Dana stated:
One of the best ways to strengthen ourselves and our community is by sharing our stories. Blogs and online forums are a great way to do this, but I also wanted to expand our horizons and showcase the voices of families who are not necessarily part of the online community, or who have experience talking about their families in other media as well. Reaching out to Family Pride to interview people in their OUTSpoken program made perfect sense. These families are leading the fight to make our families visible and accepted, and I think we can all learn a lot from them.”
Family Pride’s OUTSpoken program has four goals:
- We will fundamentally shift the way our families are talked about and treated in the media, in our communities and by our politicians by raising awareness about both the existence of and the struggle of our families.
- We will arm thousands of LGBTQ parents and their allies with the information to speak to their co-workers, school officials, faith leaders, legislators and the media in their own communities not only with passion, but with authority and credible, indisputable information.
- We will counter the vitriolic misinformation campaign being waged by the fundamentalist right with credible social science research, reliable facts and our own stories.
- We will continue to protect our children by creating safe schools that both understand and support the vast variety of family structures.
Earlier in the year, one of our trained OUTSpoken families even appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show! Watch the video clip below:
More than a thousand people in almost every state in the country have been trained through OUTSpoken. Learn more about this exciting initiative by clicking here and stay tuned to Mombian.com.
[…] to be visible. (An OUTSpoken family also appeared on Oprah earlier this year. Watch the clip on the Family Pride Blog.) I’m pleased they’ve agreed to share a bit of their lives within the community of LGBT […]