The Father's Day photos of gay dads and their fai show that love all forms.
Contents:
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- THE CHILDREN OF GAY PARENTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELV
- AFTER ORLANDO, 21 PHOTOS OF GAY DADS AND THEIR KIDS TO HELP YOU SE AGA
- HOW TO DEAL WH HAVG GAY PARENTS
- DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
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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.
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THE CHILDREN OF GAY PARENTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELV
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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. 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.
AFTER ORLANDO, 21 PHOTOS OF GAY DADS AND THEIR KIDS TO HELP YOU SE AGA
As a Black, gay man raisg a son on his own, Mr.
“My mom is gay, ” she explaed.
” She had never met another person who was raised by a gay parent.
HOW TO DEAL WH HAVG GAY PARENTS
” Eventually she nnected wh COLAGE (Children of Lbians and Gays Everywhere) and found a muny of people who shared a siar childhood: the jugglg of silence and isolatn, the fendg of parents on the playground. The children of gay parents aren’t “hypothetil”: They’re real and they’re ok.
Allison, raised Connecticut and Vermont by her mom and her mom's partner: “As soon as I found out [my new school] had a gay-straight alliance I jt— was amazg, to know that there are other kids my age—to realize that they were supportive of LGBT people. I wasn't the only one who knew gay people and wasn't this dark secret that I had to hi. If you look at the vast majory of thgs that fe who my moms are, or who my fay is, 's really no more accurate to say that my moms are gay married, than to say they are Packers-fan married, or work--healthre married.
Mark, raised Pennsylvania by his mom and his dad, who me out when he was llege: “My dad is gay. I had an clatn that my dad was gay om the very begng of time.
DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
Elizabeth, raised Boston by her mom and dad who me out when she was llege: “He said, 'It's time for me to nont my inty’ and I asked 'Are you gay? ' And I thk the next words out of my mouth were, 'Dad, I'm pretty sure you're gay.
” At Right: Lren, raised Kansas Cy, Missouri, by her mom and dad, who me out when she was 7: “The fact that my parents were divorced way overshadowed the fact that my dad was gay.