Give a big Father's Day hug to Ricky Mart, Neil Patrick Harris, and Anrson Cooper — as well as the rt of our hight-profile gay dads.
Contents:
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
- THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
- GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
- GAY DADS AND STIGMAS
- IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- GAY FATHERS WHO COME OUT MID-LIFE
MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads." * gay fathers *
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.
“I felt a ltle b lonely as a gay dad – although there are two of – but lonely the sense that all the other fai I knew were straight parents, ” Heynen said a vio ll, explag why he began photographg the seri. “I also thought was important for (my kids) to see other fai wh gay dads. “For many people, the book will be an troductn to gay fatherhood.
THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
For Father's Day, NPR spoke to three, gay sgle fathers who ma the choice to bee parents via surrogacy. * gay fathers *
For Heynen, they reprent addnal love and re and help illtrate some of the cisn-makg that, though not exclive to them, all gay fathers mt ntend wh. “Most of the women are Mormon, and Mormons don’t believe gay marriage and gays havg kids. Heynen, as well as the fathers he photographed, hope that the photographs “Dads” will dispel some of the hurtful stereotyp that still lger around gay fatherhood.
GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
Growg up wh a gay father created challeng for both my Dad & I. His journey out of the Bible Belt & closet was not easy. Most importantly though . . . * gay fathers *
Abplanalp never knew when he was younger that fatherhood would be possible for him as gay man.
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HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
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GAY DADS AND STIGMAS
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This YA g-of-age novel follows high schooler Sal, who was adopted to a lovg Mexin Amerin fay by his gay father, when he begs to qutn his inty and place the world durg his senr year.
This one-hour documentary followed the fay liv of four gay fai and the legal and cultural hurdl the men faced to bee fathers. The director and producer is Johnny Symons, himself a gay father of an adopted son wh his partner the Bay Area. Savage beme an ternatnally regnized sex lumnist and activist the 1990s and ’00s for his ank cultural sight to gay relatnships and inty.
IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
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. "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.
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
But the procs for sgle people, particularly relatively olr gay men, he says, was difficult.
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GAY FATHERS WHO COME OUT MID-LIFE
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