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Billboards In Wisconsin Talk About Family Being All About Love

09/11/09- by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
“Family. It’s all about love!”

That is the message of a number of different billboards that have gone up in Wisconsin. The push being made by a coalition of forty different LGBT groups is trying to raise awareness of the diversity of the LGBT family. This coalition includes the LGBT Center of SE Wisconsin and the Cream City Foundation among others. The billboards are slated to run through the end of September.

The transit signs, paper and electronic billboards all direct people to GayNeighbor.Org. Some of the signs are also in Spanish. This is the second year that the signs have been up. The aim of them is to promote acceptance of gay and lesbian families, and to gain more allies to help support rights for the LGBT community. The billboards are currently up in Racine, Kenosha, Milwaukee and the Ozaukee and Waukesha suburbs.

“Putting a face on an issue that some people may find complicated or difficult to comprehend often helps us to realize how much we have in common and how petty some of our differences really may be. That’s why we wanted to sponsor this message on such a busy road in our area: to promote our shared humanity and values held in common,” Dr. Bruce Joffe, the LGBT Center of SE Wisconsin’s Executive Director, has said.

“The Gay Neighbor billboard media are part of a public education campaign that challenges stereotypes about gay families in Southeastern Wisconsin by asking people to take a look at what a gay family really looks like. These billboard images of real neighbors illustrate our shared values of love, family, and commitment—emphasizing fairness for everyone, including gay and transgender people and their families,” according to Cream City Foundation’s Executive Director María Cadenas. “

The site itself includes a way for individuals to share their own stories and to read the stories of others and provides educational resources concerning the LGBT community.

Gay Neighbor