Give a big Father's Day hug to Ricky Mart, Neil Patrick Harris, and Anrson Cooper — as well as the rt of our hight-profile gay dads.
Contents:
- 20 FAMO GAY DADS TO CELEBRATE FATHER'S DAY & PRI MONTH
- 'LOVE ALWAYS WS': GAY FATHERS DISCS JOYS AND CHALLENG OF PARENTG MORN AMERI
- FATHER’S DAY FOR GAY BOYS
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
20 FAMO GAY DADS TO CELEBRATE FATHER'S DAY & PRI MONTH
Father's Day and Gay Pri Month ci June, and rabow flags celebrate both -- and my father. * gay father day *
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.
'LOVE ALWAYS WS': GAY FATHERS DISCS JOYS AND CHALLENG OF PARENTG MORN AMERI
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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.
FATHER’S DAY FOR GAY BOYS
Celebrate Father's Day this Pri Month wh some of the celebry gay dads and their betiful fai. | iHeart" name="scriptn * gay father day *
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. 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.
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
To much of the natn, the flags reprent gay pri — a month voted to the celebratn and support of gay rights. For me, those brightly lored flags reprent my father me out as gay when I was 5 years old.
My father would later tell me he knew he was gay for as long as he uld remember. And workg to keep one foot his “old” world — rated salman, volved father — and one foot his new gay liftyle, he was somethg of a pneer. Makg matters more difficult, my father was fg that new path the 1980s durg the natn’s AIDS crisis, when homophobia and the celty and ignorance of large swaths of Amerins were at heightened levels.
MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
There were members of our muny who lerally thought that sharg a meal wh a gay person or swimmg the same pool uld prove adly.