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Family Diversity Projects, a non-profit organization in Amherst, MA, has created five award-winning traveling photo-text rental exhibits that tour communities nationwide and internationally.

Our exhibits are perfect for diversity events in your:

  • Schools (K-12)
  • Colleges
  • Corporations & Workplaces
  • Libraries
  • Houses of Worship
  • Hospitals
  • Mental health centers
  • Conferences
  • Museums
  • Diversity Events
  • Community Events

By educating people of all ages to recognize, support, and celebrate the full range of diversity, our traveling exhibits are designed to help reduce prejudice, stereotyping, and harassment of all people who are perceived to be "different" from the "norm."

Family Diversity Projects also provides speakers on diversity and workshop leaders for conferences and exhibit venues.

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Pioneering Voices


Pioneering Voices - Portraits of Transgender People

Photos and Interviews by Jack Pierson
Text by Jack Pierson and Peggy Gillespie

Pioneering Voices

Exhibit Description | Tour Schedule | Advisory Board

Exhibit Description

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Pioneering Voices is a museum-quality traveling exhibit including photographs and interviews with people of all ages who are transgender and some of their partners and children. Through first-person accounts and positive images, this exhibit seeks to challenge damaging myths and stereotypes about transgender people and to educate people about this marginalized, and often invisible group of people. This exhibit explores the many aspects of gender identity and variance by sharing these important, ground-breaking stories with the general public, who might not be knowledgeable about people who are transgender. At the same time, this exhibit celebrates a range of views, opinions, and experiences that are unique and empowering to transgender people everywhere. At the most basic level, Pioneering Voices combats transphobia by breaking silence and making the invisible visible. By encouraging people of all ages to affirm and appreciate diversity, this traveling rental exhibit contributes to the process of dismantling the destructive power of prejudice and intolerance, thereby making the world a safer place for all individuals.

The photo-text rental exhibit consists of 15 ready-to-hang framed photographs and accompanying text panels. It was created under the auspices of Family Diversity Projects by Smith College intern, Jack Pierson, who took the photographs and interviewed the individuals. Peggy Gillespie, Editor-In-Chief of Family Diversity Projects collaborated with Jack Pierson to create the interview text.

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Tour Schedule (Partial List)

 In order to meet demand, multiple copies of this photo-text rental exhibit were created. If your desired booking date appears below it does not mean the exhibit is unavailable. Please contact us to arrange your exhibition. For exact locations and times of a showing, please contact the people listed below.

2008
Dates Location Contact
Apr 1 - 7 First Unitarian Church, Portland, OR tara@welcomingcongregations.org

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Advisory Board

 Ellen H.Bettmann
Brooklyn, NY
Anti-Bias Education Consultant
EHB Consulting

Warren J. Blumenfeld
Northampton, MA
Editor: Homophobia: How We all Pay the Price

Kate Clinton
Provincetown, MA
Comedian/Writer

Debra Chasnoff
Berkeley, CA
Filmmaker/Director of It’s Elementary

Helen Cohen
Berkeley, CA
Film Producer of It’s Elementary

Tim Fisher
Washington, DC
Former Executive Director, Family Pride Coalition

Rodney Glasgow
Worcester, MA
Director of Diversity, Worcester Academy

Anna and Molly Heller
Somerville, MA
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE)

Kevin Jennings
New York, NY
Executive Director, Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Educators Network (GLSEN)

Bill T. Jones
New York, NY
Director: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

Arthur Lipkin
Cambridge, MA
Harvard Graduate School of Education: Gay And Lesbian School Issues Project

April Martin
New York, NY
Author, Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook

Lesléa Newman
Northampton, MA
Author, Heather Has Two Mommies

Felicia Park-Rogers
San Francisco, CA
Former Executive Director, Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE)

Lynn Sullivan
Dean of Community Affairs
King & Low Heywood Thomas School, Stamford, CT

Bonnie Tinker
Portland, OR
Executive Director, Love Makes A Family, Inc.

Lorraine Tiven
Albany, NY
National Director of Peer Education
Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

Youth Advisory Board

Liza Mackenzie Styles
Amherst, MA
High School Student

Ekene Nwokoye
Medford, MA
Graduate, Tufts University

Ashley Watson
Northampton, MA
College Student

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