Aeroe Rainbow Family Festival

About Aeroe Rainbow Family Festival

Aeroe Rainbow Family Festival - A safe island getaway, fun for adults and children. A celebration of LGBTQ+ families. This NGO is founded to create an annual festival, a safe space for LGBTQ+ families to meet and have fun, to be open and enjoy a week doing what they find fun and inspiring in a context where it is possible to meet other families like theirs. The festival focuses as much on doing as on being entertained, it can be compared to a summer camp for the whole rainbow family. Grown-ups as well as kids will be reminded that it’s OK to try activities just for fun: to kick a ball, fly a kite or go for a hike. Or try learning to knit, a new computer game or a sup board. A cultural program will entertain and challenge participants as well as enlighten. We aim to reflect as much diversity within the LGBTQ+ community as possible, both in terms of subject matter and range of voices. The festival is aimed at families in which children, parents or grandparents identify as LGBTQ+: all sexual minorities and gender minorities, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, intersex, etc. All religions, races, ethnicities and abilities are more than welcome, as our intersectional realities play a big role in the lives of children. Families may be out or live their lives passing. Families may be old with teenage children who may want to share experiences with like-minded peers. Families may be new to the community, with a person who may just have come out, or may be grown-ups who may just have decided to have children together and take part with hopes that babies are on the way. Participants do not need to identify as LGBTQ+ to participate. Allies are welcome. Also non LGBTQ+ persons who are members of a rainbow family, for example cisgender heterosexual grandparents, may choose to bring their grandchildren, leaving LGBTQ+ parents at home.

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