Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads."
Contents:
- I'M A GAY DAD. MY SON LOV SPORTS. HERE'S HOW THAT UNEXPECTEDLY CHANGED MY LIFE
- AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
- THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN
- GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
- THE GAY MEN BEME ‘FATHER AND SON.’ NOW THEY WANT TO GET MARRIED BUT N’T.
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
- DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
I'M A GAY DAD. MY SON LOV SPORTS. HERE'S HOW THAT UNEXPECTEDLY CHANGED MY LIFE
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AGE DIFFERENC GAY COUPL
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Stt Takacs, a 46-year-old and father of three, penned a personal say about his experience g out as a gay man to his sons.
THE CURSE OF AN ATTRACTN TO OLR GAY MEN
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There wasn't much of a plan, no guibook hand, only goals that I hoped my boys would start the procs of unrstandg and acceptg their dad for whom I tly was: a gay Stt TakacsIt had been a long 15 months sce g out to my wife, an experience I unfortunately wouldn't scribe as posive, fun or somethg I ever want to repeat. Wh many emotns and strs, I accepted her requt to keep the reason for our divorce -- due to me beg gay -- a secret for at least another year. Chigo offered the stabily I need a job, iendship and at this pot, a new relatnship that all ntributed to my healg this new gay world.
GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
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THE GAY MEN BEME ‘FATHER AND SON.’ NOW THEY WANT TO GET MARRIED BUT N’T.
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MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
He was a few years ahead of his brothers beg doctrated by his school agast homosexualy. Eventually, though, that started to four years, my olst son's iends knew he had a gay dad, and, to put teenage terms, wasn't so bad.
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DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
I helped start a group for gay fathers Chigo and has shown me that there are other gay fathers ahead of me their g-out journey wh posive experienc to share.
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
Many quiri I have received over and over aga through the years beg somethg like this: “I've always liked olr men, but many gay iends close to my age are cril of me and spic of my motiv.
” One young man said to me, “If I see a handsome gay man my age, he might jt as well have a vaga.
Var labels have been ascribed to tergeneratnal upl, whether straight, gay or bisexual: tergeneratnal, age-gap, age-discrepant, or, more often than not, “May-December” relatnships.