Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads."
Contents:
- EROTIC GAY THRILLER ‘IN BED’ DEBUTS TRAILER AHEAD OF RELEASE ON HOME TURF ISRAEL (EXCLUSIVE)
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
EROTIC GAY THRILLER ‘IN BED’ DEBUTS TRAILER AHEAD OF RELEASE ON HOME TURF ISRAEL (EXCLUSIVE)
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MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
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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.
* gay in bed *
“For many people, the book will be an troductn to gay fatherhood. 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. Abplanalp never knew when he was younger that fatherhood would be possible for him as gay man. Listen: “Daddy Squared: The Gay Dads Podst” (2019-ongog).