I Had Two Gay Dads Des Before It Was 'Cool' | HuffPost Voic

Contents:

•  WILLIAM ZACHARY ZULOCK GAY UPLE GEIA MOLT ADOPTED SONS
• REPORT REVEALS HOW TWO GAY MEN ALLEGEDLY VICTIMIZED THEIR ADOPTED SONS FOR YEARS
• HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO MCH AND CAM, TWO GAY TV DADS WHO HELPED CHANGE AMERI
• MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
• I HAD TWO GAY DADS DES BEFORE IT WAS 'COOL'
• SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH
• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• NATE BERK AND JEREMIAH BRENT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG 'TWO GAY DADS' ON HOME MAKEOVER TV: 'WE BELIEVE OPENG UP THE DOORS'
• ‘SAME STREET’ TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS

 WILLIAM ZACHARY ZULOCK GAY UPLE GEIA MOLT ADOPTED SONS

ATLANTA, GEORGIA: William Dale Zulock and Zachary Jaby Zulock, a gay Geia uple, are acced of moltg their two adopted boys and g them to rerd child porn.

REPORT REVEALS HOW TWO GAY MEN ALLEGEDLY VICTIMIZED THEIR ADOPTED SONS FOR YEARS

" This other person wrote, "I'm a gay man and this is beyond appallg. I’m a gay man and this is beyond appallg. A months-long vtigatn has found that the horrific story of a gay uple allegedly sexually abg their two adopted sons may be even worse than origally reported as now appears the young children may have been victims of a pedophile rg.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO MCH AND CAM, TWO GAY TV DADS WHO HELPED CHANGE AMERI

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

I HAD TWO GAY DADS DES BEFORE IT WAS 'COOL'

This Father’s Day, let’s take a moment to appreciate Mch and Cam, the gay dads of the s Morn Fay, played by Jse Tyler Fergon and Eric Stontreet. But the gay dads almost didn’t make to air. A gay lleague even enuraged them to turn Mch and Cam to mor background characters to avoid srg away viewers.

It wasn’t an unreasonable ncern at the time: Though gay characters had grown more proment on televisn the early 2000s, upl were ls mon and tend to only appear on ble shows. It was clear that many Amerins were still eply unfortable wh the ia of treatg gay upl as equals. Not only that, but viewers were particularly taken by the gay uple.

SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH

That was thanks to a clever strategy: In orr to ease nservative viewers to watchg, the wrers liberately foced early storyl on Mch and Cam’s parentg, rather than on any gay issu. Plots tend to be about takg their dghter to dayre and a pediatrician, or buyg diapers—thgs that would be relatable to gay or straight dienc.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

The issue of physil affectn beme a particular stickg pot among gay viewers.

NATE BERK AND JEREMIAH BRENT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG 'TWO GAY DADS' ON HOME MAKEOVER TV: 'WE BELIEVE OPENG UP THE DOORS'

Proposn 8 remaed the law California, where the show was set, and through a strange seri of polil mov, the ban on gay marriage was fend by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Not a bad legacy for two gay dads who nearly never ma to air.

‘SAME STREET’ TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS

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.

“For many people, the book will be an troductn to gay fatherhood. 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.