'Dads': A new photobook celebrat gay fathers wh their fai across Ameri | CNN

Contents:

• UK'S FIRST GAY DADS' TRIPLETS TO MAKE HISTORY WH 3 PARENTS ON BIRTH CERTIFIT
• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
• GAY DADS SHARE HOW THEY FEED THEIR BABI — AND WHY 'THERE SHOULD BE A MORE CLIVE APPROACH' TO THE BREASTFEEDG VS. FORMULA BATE
• 33 FAMO GAY DADS FOR FATHER'S DAY
• ONE OF BRA'S FIRST GAY DADS TO MARRY DGHTER'S EX-BOYIEND AFTER PROPOSG ON TRIP
• MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
• DOCUMENTARY ABOUT VANUVER FAI WH GAY DADS SCREENS AT R THEATRE
• GAY DADS SHARE HOW THEY FEED THEIR BABI — AND WHY 'THERE SHOULD BE A MORE CLIVE APPROACH' TO THE BREASTFEEDG VS. FORMULA BATE

UK'S FIRST GAY DADS' TRIPLETS TO MAKE HISTORY WH 3 PARENTS ON BIRTH CERTIFIT

Father of six Barrie Drewt-Barlow is havg triplets wh his new fiancé Stt Hutchson and his ex hband Tony wh the pair spendg £1ln on their IVF fayThe fay uld soon make history wh three parents listed on the birth certifitBra's first gay dads are set to wele triplets after a £1ln journey to plete their IVF fay. Barrie and Tony were Bra's first gay dads after havg tws Safon and Aspen.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

” A legal precent has been set the US by a gay “throuple”. Heynen planned to photograph for a book of photography featurg gay fathers and their children. ”Amerin culture has not been particularly starved of imag of gay fatherhood, particularly recent years.

Celebri like Anrson Cooper have helped normalize the ia of gay men raisg children, and no longer feels revelatory to see them on televisn, as did when “Morn Fay” premiered mon, Mr.

THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS

Heynen said, are imag of gay fathers who aren’t Instagram ready — like two men bg their dghters’ hair or tossg a football the ont yard. It’s an unrstandable impulse, which he attribut to a sire among gay parents to feel “normal” after havg their pabili as parents ntually lled to qutn. Heynen said, but rather a celebratn of the day-to-day liv of gay Jt for the YoungCly Rose, 61, and Ryan, 12Cly Rose, who liv Manhattan, was first photographed for “Dads” three years ago after meetg Mr.

Heynen at an event at the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center New York Cy. Heynen “a lot of cred” for cludg a father like him — a sgle dad his 60s — sce he said there is often a lack of reprentatn of olr gay people art and media, which tends to foc on young, f men. As a Black, gay man raisg a son on his own, Mr.

Egg donatn and surrogacy allow two gay men to have children geilly related to one partner and the egg donor, but not to both.

GAY DADS SHARE HOW THEY FEED THEIR BABI — AND WHY 'THERE SHOULD BE A MORE CLIVE APPROACH' TO THE BREASTFEEDG VS. FORMULA BATE

It’s been one of the tes of anti-gay activists for s: “Two men n’t have a blogil child, and two women n’t have one eher.

33 FAMO GAY DADS FOR FATHER'S DAY

” For some anti-gay people, that seems to make the relatnships somehow wrong, as though any relatnship that n’t rult a child should somehow be forbidn. Anti-gay forc will not want to hear this news, but science will ntue to explore an attempt to expla blogy. Jt like straight upl, many gay men and lbians are eager to have a geic relatnship wh their children.

At tim, I’ve taken sperm om one gay man and matched wh the eggs of his partner’s sister to create a stronger geic bond between the uple and their child. Relig and nservative lears around the world still vehemently oppose same sex marriage and homosexual acts, let alone a gay uple havg a child of their own. Studi have shown this, and I have seen first hand the hundreds of gay fai om around the world who I’ve helped to nceive.

And has helped people—gay and straight, black and whe, Christian, Jews, and Buddhists—to bee parents. Read next: Italian Polician Looks to Highlight Gay Rights by Gettg Married Canada. NPR spoke to three men, sgle gay fathers, who chose to bee dads via surrogacy, after years of g to terms wh their inti, their fai, and the technologil advanc that have ma journeys like this possible.

ONE OF BRA'S FIRST GAY DADS TO MARRY DGHTER'S EX-BOYIEND AFTER PROPOSG ON TRIP

"At that pot 1994, you didn't see many gays [on] the mp. So I realized I was gay, but I was like sred, nfed.

But the procs for sgle people, particularly relatively olr gay men, he says, was difficult.

MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI

Black, gay and heavyset the South, he was raised by a sgle mother a fay of sgle mothers. DUSTIN LING "Sometim the gay muny is seen as, oh, 's the funny guy who's always about fashn or always about travel, " says Dt Lg. "Fathers – gay fathers and mothers – e different and var forms, not jt that one-note inty.

" Raised on the island natn of Aba to Asian parents, Lg says there weren't many exampl of gay men around. Dpe the challeng of life as a sgle gay dad New York, Lg remas an optimist. Formula bate rag on, gay fathers — for whom the feedg qutn is pecially plex — are often left out of the nversatn.

"Derek and Hector Del Valle of Gaville, Fla., have ed their Papi & Papa platform to chronicle their experience as gay dads to son Oliver Rye, who was livered via a gtatnal surrogate last month.

DOCUMENTARY ABOUT VANUVER FAI WH GAY DADS SCREENS AT R THEATRE

"A lack of breast k is not a gay/straight thg. ”While the Del Valle and Michael fai still have young babi at home, other gay dads are beyond the years of bottle feedg. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

GAY DADS SHARE HOW THEY FEED THEIR BABI — AND WHY 'THERE SHOULD BE A MORE CLIVE APPROACH' TO THE BREASTFEEDG VS. FORMULA BATE

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

Multi-lnaire Barrie Drewt-Barlow, 50, is also expectg a baby dghter October wh 25-year-old Stt Hutchson, his dghter Safon's former partnerVio LoadgVio UnavailableGay dad gets engaged to dghters ex-boyiendOne of Bra's first gay dads has proposed to his dghter’s ex-boyiend while all three holidayed Croatia together. Barry and his ex-hband Tony Drewt-Barlow ma news 1999 when they beme the first gay men to father tws through a surrogacy the UK, Star Onle reports. The pair, who are known as Bra’s “first gay dads”, have sce separated after a 32-year relatnship but still live together.

Barrie and Tony beme the first gay men the UK to father children through surrogacy. Such a photograph would have been extraordarily rare jt s ago, but now is one of many published the book “Dads, ” a four-year visual archive of gay fatherhood across Ameri that began 2016.