Three sgle, gay dads talk about their journeys. : NPR

Contents:

• MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
• IN 'BEGNERS,' A GAY MAN COM OUT LATE IN LIFE
• GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
• HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
• GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
• BREEDG HIS DADDY'S FRIEND (OLR MAN YOUNGER MAN GAY SEX‪)‬
• 90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE
• DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
• A GRANDSON SHARED DISVERG HIS GRANDFATHER'S SECRET GAY LOVE STORY AND IT’S SO PURE
• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
• I'M 57 YEARS OLD AND MY FATHER JT DISOWNED ME FOR BEG GAY
• THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
• AT 60 YEARS OLD, I BEME VISIBLE. GETTG OLD AS A GAY MAN STKS.

MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI

In late 1980, at a support group for gay fathers, my dad met Lnel –– the man wh whom he would spend the next 23 years.

He had seemed kd of lost his new life – phg 60, recently divorced om my mother, recently out of the closet as gay man. 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.

” 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.

IN 'BEGNERS,' A GAY MAN COM OUT LATE IN LIFE

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.

GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON

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.

HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY

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 MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG

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.

BREEDG HIS DADDY'S FRIEND (OLR MAN YOUNGER MAN GAY SEX‪)‬

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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. Six months later, Mills' father — a 75-year-old retired mm director — announced that he's gay.

90-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OUT AS GAY, SEARCH FOR LONG-LOST LOVE

The movie stars Ewan McGregor as a graphic signer whose 75-year-old father, played by Christopher Plummer, has jt e out and wants to experience the gay life he nied himself when he was married. Mills says he remembers the day that his own father took him asi and told him that he didn't jt want to be "theoretilly gay" — that he wanted to do somethg about the feelgs he had reprsed for s.

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DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR

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Growg up wh a gay father, particularly one who was aaid to e out, prented challeng our abily to get emotnally close. From my earlit memori of my Dad around age 5, I thk I always knew my dad was gay. To hear both of them tell , my Dad beg gay wasn’t a factor the spl.

A GRANDSON SHARED DISVERG HIS GRANDFATHER'S SECRET GAY LOVE STORY AND IT’S SO PURE

After all, he was the son of a Baptist Preacher and there would not have been much tolerance the 1940’s or 50’s for him to e out as gay.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

In talkg to both of them over the years, they both claim they had no ia my Dad was gay. In retrospect, the fact that he was a cheerlear his bt iend was a male hairdrser (who was openly gay) that my Uncle Buddy nicknamed him “Percy” (which my Dad hated) and that my Dad went on to open a home furnishgs store might have been a clue.

Realizg his sexualy and beg a gay father the late 1960s, pecially wh me a long way away, mt have been really transformative for my Dad.

TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD

He lived and around the Oak Lawn area of Dallas (long a predomantly gay or at least gay-iendly neighborhood). He was meetg lots of openly gay people & gog to clubs where was OK to be openly gay. My Dad, of urse, was sistent that no one would obvly know he was gay (which also ma Tom and I lgh).

I'M 57 YEARS OLD AND MY FATHER JT DISOWNED ME FOR BEG GAY

In Loren’s se, he didn’t e to terms wh beg gay until the age of 40 and was married wh children at the time. The one benef to always knowg I had a gay father is that there was never I time I rell thkg was wrong.

I first realized my Dad was gay when I was around 7 or 8, and I have no rellectn of him beg wh my Mom.

THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS

Almost all his iends were gay as were most of his employe (those 2 groups pretty much beg the same people). That beg said, I was probably spared a lot of bullyg at school sce no one there knew I had a gay father.

AT 60 YEARS OLD, I BEME VISIBLE. GETTG OLD AS A GAY MAN STKS.

I feel que sure I got lucky this regard and that many kids wh a gay father were picked on for their parent’s sexualy. I’m proud of the fact that I and their mother have raised our dghters to not qutn or judge my Dad or Tom beg gay.