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When the NOH 8 Campaign came to our area, my son and I thought it was time to show the rest of the world that ' family ' was defined by love , support , and mutual understanding - not just biology.  With many groups still restricting adoption by gay parents or couples, our voices needed to be heard to prove that a gay man can raise a young man who has his own sexual identity

I’ve thought a lot about why I needed to do this photo shoot. The campaign itself was a no brainer. It’s beautiful and it’s important. And I am a firm believer in the power of connecting visually with people and that by seeing what “you hate” or “don’t understand” “you”, whoever “you” are ,will come to understand better and fear less which

I was following the NOH 8 Campaign for about two years on Twitter when I read their tweet that they would be in Provincetown, MA , on August 22, 2011 for a photo shoot. I got excited. That would be during our stay in P'town; my boyfriend and I planned to spend our annual vacation in America . So, when I packed my bag for the States I made sure to have two white t-shirts for

I heard about the NOH 8 shoot the morning of the event. I was bound and determined to make it in for a picture. I was always bullied for being gay throughout elementary school, junior high and part of high school. I don't understand the hate that people are raised with and why they continue on that sort of behavior. Being gay does not define me as a person , it's simply

I posed for the NOH8 Campaign because I believe in equal rights for everyone. I am straight and it breaks my heart that people in my life that I love are treated as second class citizens because of whom they love. After the passage of Prop 8 I got involved with several grass root efforts to overturn the proposition. I will continue to stand up for equal rights and fight for the right to marry for all people until we are victorious.