‘Bra’s first gay dads’ are Tampa’s UK tabloid sensatn

A later, New York beme the first state not to reject adoptn applints solely bee of “homosexualy.

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” A gay uple California 1979 beme the first the untry to jotly adopt a child. It wasn’t until 1997, however, that New Jersey beme the first state to allow same-sex upl to adopt jotly statewi, and not until 2010 did the last state, Florida, overturn a ban on adoptn by gay men and lbians.

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) The same year, a Brish gay uple had children through surrogacy California, where a urt for the first time allowed two gay dads to be on their children’s birth certifite. Siar groups for lbian mothers and gay fathers formed other ci. In 1977, lawyers Donna Hchens and Roberta Achtenberg San Francis began the Lbian Rights Project, which helped both lbian moms and gay dads.

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Also lnched the same era (1979) was the Gay Fathers Coaln, which ultimately beme Fay Equaly Council, the natnal anizatn for LGBTQ parents.

By March 1990, lbian and gay parents had bee visible enough for Newsweek to a term, reportg that “a new generatn of gay parents has produced the first-ever ‘gayby boom. ABC’s That Certa Summer (1972), about a gay dad who out to his teen son, was the first televisn movie to pict a queer parent. Michael Willhoe’s Daddy’s Roommate (1990) was the first children’s book wh a gay dad.

Marriage equaly, they claimed, would also require that “homosexualy” be tght schools. ) This go doubly for transgenr parents, about whom much ls has been wrten, and bisexual parents, many of whom were likely misintified as gay or lbian earlier if they were same-sex relatnships, or overlooked if they were not.

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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.

(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.

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“I thk that gay parents make the bt parents the world, ” he says. “A lot of gay men, as they get olr, bee lonely. 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.

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”“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. “I know all the gay dads who do too. ”Hunter, a succsful divorce attorney wh his own private practice Los Angel, says he was badly bullied as a teenager for beg gay.

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NPR spoke to three men, sgle gay fathers, who chose to bee dads via surrogacy, after years of g to terms wh their inti, their fai, and the technologil advanc that have ma journeys like this possible. "At that pot 1994, you didn't see many gays [on] the mp. So I realized I was gay, but I was like sred, nfed.

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But the procs for sgle people, particularly relatively olr gay men, he says, was difficult.

Black, gay and heavyset the South, he was raised by a sgle mother a fay of sgle mothers. DUSTIN LING "Sometim the gay muny is seen as, oh, 's the funny guy who's always about fashn or always about travel, " says Dt Lg. "Fathers – gay fathers and mothers – e different and var forms, not jt that one-note inty.

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" Raised on the island natn of Aba to Asian parents, Lg says there weren't many exampl of gay men around.

Dpe the challeng of life as a sgle gay dad New York, Lg remas an optimist.

Multi-lnaire Barrie Drewt-Barlow, 50, is also expectg a baby dghter October wh 25-year-old Stt Hutchson, his dghter Safon's former partnerVio LoadgVio UnavailableGay dad gets engaged to dghters ex-boyiendOne of Bra's first gay dads has proposed to his dghter’s ex-boyiend while all three holidayed Croatia together. Barry and his ex-hband Tony Drewt-Barlow ma news 1999 when they beme the first gay men to father tws through a surrogacy the UK, Star Onle reports. The pair, who are known as Bra’s “first gay dads”, have sce separated after a 32-year relatnship but still live together.

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DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’

THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS

ONE OF BRA'S FIRST GAY DADS TO MARRY DGHTER'S EX-BOYIEND AFTER PROPOSG ON TRIP