“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 video project called “Family is…?”. 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.
Director: Klaus Mueller; Camera: Eduardo Gellner; Watsamon “June” Tri-yasakda; Sound: Kathrin Kerschbaumer; Ong Trakarnrungroj. Produced by Salzburg Global (2017)