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Contents:
- LOVE OF BASEBALL UN FATHER, GAY SON
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
- TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
- DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
- GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
LOVE OF BASEBALL UN FATHER, GAY SON
Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads." * father son gay love *
Style|Ty Love Stori: ‘Who I Was Whout a Weddg Rg’ ADVERTISEMENTMorn LoveMorn Love miature, featurg rear-submted stori of no more than 100 ReaA Portra of Father and SonGrowg up the 1950s, I was an unathletic, slightly effemate gay boy.
” My father sensed and tried hard to “shame away the gay. At my mother’s urgg, my parents attend Pflag meetgs (Parents and Friends of Lbians and Gays).
MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
* father son gay love *
In June 1979, they marched New York Cy’s Gay Pri Para. My father rried an “I’m Proud of My Gay Son” sign. My dad knew he was gay at age 16, but he did what he thought he was supposed to: He married a woman and had children.
TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
Once he uld live openly as a gay man, his anger dissipated, but also unvered a well of emotns he had supprsed for years. He was a gay man a society that did not approve of his sexualy.
DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
He was raisg a teenage girl—hard enough on s own, but most gay men were not fathers. I never felt the need to five my father for beg gay.
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.
GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
What I do remember was that someone had ma T-shirts that said "I LOVE MY GAY DAD" and I refed to wear one. 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.
The play’s the thg new book ‘Gays on Broadway. ‘Gays on Broadway’By Ethan Mordnc. As they say, and as the new book, “Gays on Broadway” by Ethan Mordn, the play’s the thg.