Always My Son is one of a series of short documentary films that are being produced by the Family Acceptance Project (FAP) to help ethnically and religiously diverse families decrease their LGBT children’s risk for suicide, substance abuse, depression, HIV, homelessness and placement in foster care or juvenile justice settings — by increasing family support.
After watching, read FAP’s family education materials and research publications. Their research shows for the first time how these family accepting and rejecting behaviors affect an LGBT young person’s health and mental health, including risk for suicide, substance abuse, HIV, self-esteem, etc.. These attitudes and behaviors also affect the whole family.
Please raise your voice for the LGBTQI Community of Faith
We seek fair treatment of LGBTQI people where they live and worship. Bigotry should never go unanswered. LGBTQI people should be treated as equals. Words and language that discriminates against them and places them in harm’s way must stop. Please hear the voices of the following concerned citizens and choose to make change in your house of worship.
Thank you for coming to Thicker Than Water! Thicker Than Water is a new project that works within faith communities to grow and activate a movement of people who allow no harm done to people based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
This means that we strive to create a world in which nobody misuses religion as a justification for kicking their LGBT kids out of home, for instigating or advocating laws that threaten the lives of liberty of LGBT people or for harassing anyone in school or at work based on perceived or real differences in sexual orientation or gender identity.
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