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Our House: a
very real documentary about kids of gay & lesbian parents
Available on video from First Run / Icarus Films 800-876-1710 /
mailroom@frif.com
Produced & Directed by Meema Spadola
(A Presentation of ITVS)
I've spent my entire life explaining my family to people who
just don't get it. -Ry, 17, daughter of lesbian mothers
OUR HOUSE is a frank exploration of what it means to grow up
with gay or lesbian parents. In the United States today, estimates
of the number of children of gay and lesbian parents range wildly
from one million to fourteen million. Their presence is raising
public and private debates in courtrooms, schools, and churches
around the country, offering a new twist to the struggle to define
"family values." The documentary profiles the children
in five families who are facing the usual ups and downs of family
life while encountering varied reactions from extended family, classmates,
teachers, neighbors and public officials. The featured families
come from a variety of socioeconomic, racial and ethnic backgrounds
and live in urban, suburban, and rural communities in New York,
New Jersey, Arizona and Arkansas. (Producer/ director Meema Spadola
grew up in rural Maine as the daughter of a lesbian.) To find the
families in the documentary, Spadola and her staff worked with COLAGE
(Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere) and used extensive grass
roots contacts to reach almost 300 gay and lesbian families around
the country.
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New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2000
OutFest 2000 LA Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
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