Four-time Academy
Award nominee Julianne Moore sat down with
Advocate editor in chief Jon Barrett to talk about
her Valentine's Day project with Save the Children --
cards designed by seven of today's top
illustrators to raise money to fight poverty in America.
Moore serves as
an ambassador for Save the Children; she tells
Advocate.com that her experiences growing up in a military
family and seeing poverty across the country moved her
to get involved with the organization.
But she also says
the added bonus of her involvement with Save the
Children and in projects like these is in opening the lines
of communication between parents and children on
social issues.
"Gay
families are everywhere in New York City," she says.
"That's the other thing about my
children growing up in New York is that, for them, you
can be married to a girl or a boy. That's a given.
That's been a given since preschool because
there are plenty of gay families in New York City,
which is one of the benefits of living in a place like this
-- the inadvertent social and political education they
receive."
Two of the
illustrators involved in the project are gay, and Moore says
she's especially excited that the project allows her
to reach out to gay families because the LGBT people
have such a history of "activism" and
"charitable giving."
Check out
Advocate.com's interview with Julianne Moore and find
out how you can donate to Save the Children.
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