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

gay father with son

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

Contents:

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

Ever sce same-sex marriage beme legal across the US, there has been a baby boom the gay muny – om New York Cy to Utah – as the touchg imag show * gay father with son *

Heynen planned to photograph for a book of photography featurg gay fathers and their children. ”Amerin culture has not been particularly starved of imag of gay fatherhood, particularly recent years.

DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR

Celebri like Anrson Cooper have helped normalize the ia of gay men raisg children, and no longer feels revelatory to see them on televisn, as did when “Morn Fay” premiered mon, Mr. Heynen said, are imag of gay fathers who aren’t Instagram ready — like two men bg their dghters’ hair or tossg a football the ont yard.

It’s an unrstandable impulse, which he attribut to a sire among gay parents to feel “normal” after havg their pabili as parents ntually lled to qutn.

MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI

Heynen said, but rather a celebratn of the day-to-day liv of gay Jt for the YoungCly Rose, 61, and Ryan, 12Cly Rose, who liv Manhattan, was first photographed for “Dads” three years ago after meetg Mr. Heynen at an event at the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center New York Cy.

TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD

Heynen “a lot of cred” for cludg a father like him — a sgle dad his 60s — sce he said there is often a lack of reprentatn of olr gay people art and media, which tends to foc on young, f men.

A GAY DAD AND HIS SON

As a Black, gay man raisg a son on his own, Mr. Clton, MarylandThey are the first both their fai to bee gay fathers, and received a warm wele to parenthood.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY FATHER WITH SON

A gay dad and his son |.

TOP