Picture Project

BMC sent out an invitation for lgbt people and their families, as well as supportive allies, to send pictures to us for this project. We were primarily interested in photos from COB lgbt people and our families; both those who have left the COB, and those who remain yet struggle. We also included some non-lgbt allies who have either already left the church because of its exclusive practices, are just barely hanging on, or who daily struggle to remain a part of the church and wanted to express their solidarity. We received over 80 beautiful pictures that we enlarged and mounted. We invited supportive individuals at Annual Conference to carry a photo with them at all times at Conference. Our goals were two-fold:

a) to challenge the exclusionary practices of the church by making visible the presence of COB lgbt families and allies.

b) to encourage individual conversation with other conference-goers.

We gathered the pictures together for a silent witness the last evening of Conference.

Displayed here are the posters that were carried at Conference: