Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads."
Contents:
- THE SCENT OF A MAN: GAY MEN AND PHEROMON
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
- IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
- HOW TO TELL YOUR PARENTS YOU ARE GAY
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
THE SCENT OF A MAN: GAY MEN AND PHEROMON
Comg out to your parents n be a very difficult nversatn. You might be feelg nervo, sad, or even aaid to tell your parents that you are gay. You n have this talk if you prepare for properly and then iate a uful... * smell dads gay *
However, other gay men I know report somethg siarly powerful recurrg experience spired me to search my mental Rolox of scent memori to see if I uld make any nnectns. A 2005 Natnal Geographic article about a bra study revealed that when gay men smelled male sweat (which ntas ttosterone), their cerebral activy the regn volved reproductive behavr looked parable to women’s cerebral activy. Another study showed that gay men preferred the odors of other gay men, while odors emted by gay men were the least preferred by straight earlit scent memori of my dad are of Old Spice, tobac, cigarette smoke, alhol (om the “high balls” he drank before g home at the end of the week), and….
HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
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IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
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HOW TO TELL YOUR PARENTS YOU ARE GAY
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MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
Also lled chronophilia (and sometim ageism), the fetishizatn of age is a hotly bated topic gay culture.
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‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
Until, out of nowhere, my brother sudnly asked, "Dad, are you gay?