Yan Dekel and Alex Maghen, who host Daddy Squared: The Gay Dads Podst, found they had more mon wh straight parents than they thought.
Contents:
- WE NEED MORE GAY DADS ON TV
- SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’
- DO WE NEED A “GAY DADS DAY”?
- GAY DADS SHARE HOW THEY FEED THEIR BABI — AND WHY 'THERE SHOULD BE A MORE CLIVE APPROACH' TO THE BREASTFEEDG VS. FORMULA BATE
WE NEED MORE GAY DADS ON TV
No, the most “morn” part of Morn Fay is the relatnship between Cameron and Mchell (Eric Stontreet and Jse Tyler Fergon), gay parents to adopted dghter Lilly. Where are all the other gay dads on TV? That show was specifilly about the ups and downs of beg gay dads.
It’s 2016, so where are the “regular, lovg fay that jt happens to nsist of gay dads” shows? C., Will & Grace all showed gay dads at some pot, but not extensively. Ameri, televisn, the gays, the straights — we’re all ready for more gay dads.
If tomorrow a new show appeared that was about two gay dads raisg a child, those gay dads would be like every other dad on TV. Beg gay don’t affect what kd of dad you are, your personaly do. Many people don’t know what ’s like to have a transgenred parent, or two gay dads, or a variety of other ls-seen fay suatns.
SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’
For some people, gay fathers are a foreign ncept. Seeg gay dads on TV will make some people more fortable wh the ncept of gay dads existg and beg wonrfully lovg parents to normal, well-adjted children.
The purpose of gay fathers on TV is not jt to open the ey of people who have not prevly been exposed to them. Gay dads want to see gay dads on TV. The children of gay dads want to see gay dads on TV.
And gay teens want to see gay dads on TV. In fact, gay sgle dads are part of a growg movement that has seen a signifint surge of tert the last few years, as noted by the New York get a more plete picture of the joys of fatherhood, Yahoo Life spoke to four sgle gay dads who prove that love is what tly mak a fay.
DO WE NEED A “GAY DADS DAY”?
(urty photo)When Puerto Rin TikTok star José Rolón me out at 18 years old, there were few public exampl of gay fathers. “But after everythg is said and done, adoptn for gay men is still really difficult.
”Fzpatrick, whose father, a gay Black man, was killed senselsly by gun vlence the parkg lot of a gay bar when Fzpatrick was 18, says that fatherhood gave him unique opportuni to turn his paful past to purpose through the love of his dghter. “I thk that gay parents make the bt parents the world, ” he says. “A lot of gay men, as they get olr, bee lonely.
GAY DADS SHARE HOW THEY FEED THEIR BABI — AND WHY 'THERE SHOULD BE A MORE CLIVE APPROACH' TO THE BREASTFEEDG VS. FORMULA BATE
One night, Hilton, a sgle gay dad who's weled three children via surrogate, opened up to Evans about the joys of fatherhood and his own journey. ”“I was gog through that empts of growg olr as a gay man and not havg a signifint other and not havg the life I once lived, and not unrstandg where I was gog, ” he ntu.