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In Kids & Family Briefs
Local billboards feature gay families
Marc, Thor and their daughter, Lily.  
By Molly Snyder Edler RSS Feed
OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer

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Published Aug. 15, 2008 at 10:49 a.m.
Tags: lgbt, cream city foundation, gay neighbor campaign

On Wednesday, Cream City Foundation unveiled their groundbreaking Gay Neighbor media campaign, a public education campaign aimed to challenge stereotypes about LGBT people and their families.

The campaign features 30 billboards, including a digital billboard on I-794.

The billboards show images of real families and showcase their values of love, family and commitment. This is the first media campaign of its kind in southeastern Wisconsin.

Cream City Foundation is an organization whose main purpose is to help create social change on behalf of LGBT people in southeastern Wisconsin.



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Creative13 Milwaukee Lover - would you please consider contacting me through the gayneighbor.org ...
sandstorm well, we've come a long way from those days when the government made gays WEAR ...
mkelover I just saw their ad on the digital billboard on I-794. The thing that caught ...
Z_boy Cool! This is sincerely a nice thing to see.
uwm19 Awesome.

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