Family = Love

How do you photograph unconditional love?  Many feel it’s not easy to even find.  Perhaps that’s truer than we’d all like to believe.  But here’s one place I looked.

A mother and her daughter…a lesbian mother and her straight daughter.  A woman who has been an open and proud lesbian as long as she’s been “out,” and her daughter who has always known, who was raised by an openly lesbian mother, who openly supports and defends her mother (and all human rights), no matter the adversity and outright hatred that exists for the LGBT community.  This is not mere acceptance.  This is love, true and unconditional.  You don’t photograph it; it commands everything in its presence.

I salute LGBT Pride by honoring these women, brave and loving and beautiful.  May our world be filled with more and more people, of any and every persuasion, just like them.

Alyson, wearing a “I Am What I Am” pendant, and Amy, donning buttons that read “F#%K Homophobia” and “Hatred is not a Family Value”

Three generations of love and support, Lenore joins daughter Alyson and granddaughter Amy