As we e to the end of June and Pri month, we wanted to take some time to highlight several children’s books featurg fai wh gay dads. We believe is important to read and expose our children to books that reflect the diversy ( all sens) of the world we live . It is…
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
A gay Geia uple alleged to have sexually abed their adopted sons believed to have pimped out the boys to a pedophile rg as well. * two gay dads *
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.
REPORT REVEALS HOW TWO GAY MEN ALLEGEDLY VICTIMIZED THEIR ADOPTED SONS FOR YEARS
Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads." * two gay dads *
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.
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY TO MCH AND CAM, TWO GAY TV DADS WHO HELPED CHANGE AMERI
"When my two dads met 40 years ago the notn of startg a fay as an openly gay uple was unheard of." * two gay dads *
'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. A gay lleague even enuraged them to turn Mch and Cam to mor background characters to avoid srg away viewers.
MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
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.
I HAD TWO GAY DADS DES BEFORE IT WAS 'COOL'
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.
SAME STREET TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS DURG PRI MONTH
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.
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
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.
NATE BERK AND JEREMIAH BRENT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEG 'TWO GAY DADS' ON HOME MAKEOVER TV: 'WE BELIEVE OPENG UP THE DOORS'
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).
‘SAME STREET’ TRODUC FAY WH TWO GAY DADS
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.