Family: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian America

This volume examines the complex nature of gay and lesbian experience in the United States. This family is multicultural and varied in age, background, religion and political views. The author’s photographic eye captures common and uncommon moments in the lives of gay and lesbian America in an assemblage of black-and-white prints. Bending the stereotypes of who gay people are, this book portrays: Christian lesbians who next to Jesus, love each other the most; three gay Mormon brothers; gay Elvis impersonators; a young gay republican; and famous faces like Roberta Achtenberg and Cleve Jones. Their portraits illuminate a different vision of what is meant when people say family .