For Father's Day, NPR spoke to three, gay sgle fathers who ma the choice to bee parents via surrogacy.
Contents:
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
- BREEDG HIS DADDY'S FRIEND (OLR MAN YOUNGER MAN GAY SEX)
- TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
- IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
- THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
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DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
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.
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HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
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BREEDG HIS DADDY'S FRIEND (OLR MAN YOUNGER MAN GAY SEX)
Jt as you didn’t choose to be gay and have the feelgs you have.
My brother picked up the word for "gay" – a word my dad repeated several tim durg that that pot, my parents had told they had problems their marriage, but a few months later, when I was around ne years old, we still went on our annual fay summer holiday to France. Until, out of nowhere, my brother sudnly asked, "Dad, are you gay?
"There aren't a lot of gay people out there wh a wife and children, " he told me. I once tagged along wh him to his favoure gay bar, where I met all the iends he's ma there over the years.
TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
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He asked that I march wh him, alongsi the other gay fathers and their kids, the Los Angel Pri Para.
What I do remember was that someone had ma T-shirts that said "I LOVE MY GAY DAD" and I refed to wear one.
IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
I told my dad, “I love you, but not bee you’re gay.
” The tth, though, is that I lacked the urage to stand all the way up for my father and his ras agast a homophobic and different world. I probably left my "I LOVE MY GAY DAD" T-shirt next to the box had e out of, though I might have taken home wh me and buried a drawer. Pete Wilson’s office, or at the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay dad and his hband lost a lot of iends to AIDS.
THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
Even when I was an obnox 22-year-old and wouldn’t put on a T-shirt to clare, unashamed, unembarrassed and unapologetic, that I love my gay dad. LUCIE - Comg out as gay is hard, but g out as gay to your Mormon dad is really Swk was preparg to go on his first missn trip wh the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats when he cid to reveal the news that he was gay to his dad, Vghn Swk. He cid to vio rerd his g out to his dad, and posted the reactn the vio above to see how Swk’s dad reacted to him g out as gay.
Introducg Daddyhunt, a brand new datg and hook up app that puts daddys and the men who love them of the pany, Carl Sandler, se the Daddyhunt app "as part of larger trend gay culture celebratg age, experience and knowledge, " acrdg to a prs release sent to The Huffgton Post. Men like Tom Ford, Dt Lance Black, Jared Leto and Murray Bartlett (Dom on HBO’s "Lookg"), have helped the gay muny rethk what means to get olr.