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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.

" 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. 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.

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

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. 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".

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.

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

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.

MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI

Not only that, but viewers were particularly taken by the gay uple.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH

“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. “Most of the women are Mormon, and Mormons don’t believe gay marriage and gays havg kids.

Heynen, as well as the fathers he photographed, hope that the photographs “Dads” will dispel some of the hurtful stereotyp that still lger around gay fatherhood. Abplanalp never knew when he was younger that fatherhood would be possible for him as gay man.

Listen: “Daddy Squared: The Gay Dads Podst” (2019-ongog). Hosted by Wt Hollywood uple Yan and Alex, the dads e each episo to chat parentg and relatnships, and lately have been focg each episo on the gay rights and fatherhood pathways by untry, and vg a gay father om each lotn on as a gut. Patrick, who played a terracial gay uple who eventually marry and adopt two children.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

This YA g-of-age novel follows high schooler Sal, who was adopted to a lovg Mexin Amerin fay by his gay father, when he begs to qutn his inty and place the world durg his senr year. This one-hour documentary followed the fay liv of four gay fai and the legal and cultural hurdl the men faced to bee fathers. The director and producer is Johnny Symons, himself a gay father of an adopted son wh his partner the Bay Area.

Savage beme an ternatnally regnized sex lumnist and activist the 1990s and ’00s for his ank cultural sight to gay relatnships and inty. I’ll never fet my first day of krgarten bee was the day I learned that not everyone had two gay dads, two brothers and a beagle named Hymie.

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

Then havg to rrect and rm the quisor that my dads were gay when they jt assumed my parents were divorced and remarried which rulted my havg two dads.

‘SAME STREET’ TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS

” But when my two dads met 40 years ago the notn of startg a fay as an openly gay uple wasn’t jt far-fetched, was unheard of. A phenomenon I n only attribute to my Dad and Pop’s parentg, and their sistence that we be surround by strong, female figur (like nanni and Aunts), whose prence likely circumvented the “void” that some children ascribe to not knowg their birth I graduated llege 2014 and realized that people were still shocked to learn that I have two gay dads, I knew was important for me to e my unique posn as a child of same-sex parents to ntribute to the “normalizatn” of fai like me – somethg that as a child I had always yearned to do, but at the time lacked the rourc to acplish.

'Same Street' troduc fay wh two gay dads.

The episo featured a fay wh two gay dads. Heynen planned to photograph for a book of photography featurg gay fathers and their children.