“None of us come from families that were prepared for us.” Klaus Mueller, Founder and Chair, Salzburg Global LGBT Forum
Family is a fundamental human condition. It is also a fundamental human right. Since its foundation in 2013, Salzburg Global LGBT Forum has focused on the realities and experiences of families and their LGBT children, and especially the consequences of exclusion and discrimination. In 2015, with the support by the German Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women & Youth, the Forum launched a three-year project called “Family is…?”. Mueller and State Secretary Ralf Kleindiek introduced the three-year collaboration in a conversation on “Family is…” at the session Strengthening Communities: LGBT Rights and Social Cohesion in 2015. We interviewed our Forum members – a network of leaders coming from 70 countries – about their families of birth, their families of choice and the families they raise. This film portrays the complexities of our lives and hopes to support a global conversation on inclusive families. In May 2017, the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women & Youth hosted the premier at an event “Family is…? A Global Conversation” at its Berlin headquarters.
Director: Klaus Mueller; Camera: Eduardo Gellner; Watsamon “June” Tri-yasakda; Sound: Kathrin Kerschbaumer; Ong Trakarnrungroj. Produced by Salzburg Global (2017)