For Father's Day, NPR spoke to three, gay sgle fathers who ma the choice to bee parents via surrogacy.
Contents:
- GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
- THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
- THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
Growg up wh a gay father created challeng for both my Dad & I. His journey out of the Bible Belt & closet was not easy. Most importantly though . . . * gay dad story *
In this example, you happened to see him naked a settg that n be sexually arog for a lot of gay man. Jt as you didn’t choose to be gay and have the feelgs you have.
But I knew he was gay by the time I was 7 or 8. So this is my story of growg up wh a gay father.
THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
Stori by, for, and/or about Gay and Bi Young People. * gay dad story *
Growg up wh a gay father, particularly one who was aaid to e out, prented challeng our abily to get emotnally close.
THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
I don’t rell a time when I didn’t know my Dad was gay. From my earlit memori of my Dad around age 5, I thk I always knew my dad was gay.
Th I never had that aha moment of realizg “I have a gay father”! To hear both of them tell , my Dad beg gay wasn’t a factor the spl. How my Dad me to terms wh beg gay.
I don’t thk anyone knew yet that my Dad was gay. 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. In talkg to both of them over the years, they both claim they had no ia my Dad was gay.
HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS 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. 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. Beg a gay father the 1960s. My Dad never actually me out as gay to me or to most people.
I’d known my Dad is gay for some time, but we’d never discsed . My Dad, of urse, was sistent that no one would obvly know he was gay (which also ma Tom and I lgh). Are you a gay father stgglg to e out?