• We’re All Beginners. Mark Snyder, Communications Coordinator, interviews Mike Mills and offers a personal reaction to the film.
• Watch video stories from COLAGE members sharing about having LGBTQ parents!
• Paul Perry: My “Beginners Story”
• Share your Beginners Stories with COLAGE

Preview & Synopsis:

This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 45 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend, Andy (Goran Visnjic of ER). The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they’d ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavors to love Anna with all the bravery, humor, and hope that his father taught him.”

COLAGE is excited to be partnering with GroundSpark on a new, cutting edge film and educational campaign about teens, gender and sexuality: Straightlaced–How Gender’s Got Us All Tied Up. From girls confronting media messages about culture and body image to boys who are sexually active just to prove they aren’t gay, Straightlaced shares young people’s brave and intimate stories about the toll that deeply held stereotypes and rigid gender policing have on all our lives.

As a Straightlaced partner, COLAGE will receive a 10% rebate on every GroundSpark purchase by our members/affiliates/friends/etc. Check out this amazing resource – and support COLAGE at the same time. The offer is good on other Respect For All Project films too!

Please check out our COLAGE Community Page on the Testimony website, and submit your own videos and stories today! Help us amplify the voices of LGBTQ families.

Click here to get started!

From “Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell” to California’s Prop 8 trial (Perry V. Schwarzenegger), historic trials on LGBT equality are happening across America right now and only a handful of people get to testify. If you could Take A Stand, what would you say? What would your Testimony be?

Check back soon for videos created in collaboration with Give A Damn that showcase people with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer parents.

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