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Contents:
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
- GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
- DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
- TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads." * father gay with son *
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. 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. He was raisg a teenage girl—hard enough on s own, but most gay men were not fathers.
GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
Fathers and gay sons: A plited, vally important relatnship. * father gay with son *
I never felt the need to five my father for beg gay. 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.
DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
“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.
TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
“Most of the women are Mormon, and Mormons don’t believe gay marriage and gays havg kids.