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The Kids of LGBTQ Parents by Gabriela Herman
PhotocriticEtcJudges, academics, and activists have been wondering about the impact on children of having gay parents. Maybe it’s time to ask the kids?
For the past seven years, award-winning photographer Gabriela Herman, whose mother came out when Herman was in high school and was married in one of Massachusetts’s first legal same-sex unions, has been photographing and interviewing children and young adults in America with one or more parent who identifies as lesbian, gay, transgender, or queer.
The Kids: The Children of LGBTQ Parents in the USA (The New Press, October 2017) brings together 75 of Herman’s stunning portraits of children brought up by gay parents in America. Her work brings a vibrant energy and sensitivity to a wide range of experiences.
Some of the children Herman photographed were adopted, some conceived by artificial insemination. Many are children of divorce. Some were raised in urban areas, others in the rural Midwest and all over the map. These parents and children juggled silence and solitude with a need to defend their families on the playground, at church, and at holiday gatherings. This is their story.
The Kids is published by The New Press and will available in October 2017. ISBN: 978-1-62097-367-7
