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Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads."

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MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI

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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.

GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG

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Once he uld live openly as a gay man, his anger dissipated, but also unvered a well of emotns he had supprsed for years.

DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR

He was a gay man a society that did not approve of his sexualy. 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.

TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD

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.

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Dad and dad: a journey to gay fatherhood – pictur | Art and sign | The Guardian .

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