MAKING LOVE VISIBLE: In Celebration of Gay...

MAKING LOVE VISIBLE: In Celebration of Gay and Lesbian Families photographs by Geoff Manasse, text by Jean Swallow (The Crossing Press: $18.95; 176 pp., paperback original). Brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, stepchildren, friends: The individuals in these profiles love and are loved in ways that reflect the diversity of late 20th century America. Pondering the meaning of the word “family,” Swallow comments, “Perhaps it is time to reclaim the word, and with it, a meaning that opens hearts instead of closing them.” Single gay father Kerrington Osborne adds, “Family is the folks who love you whatever.”