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
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
- GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
- ‘GAY BEE OF ABSENT FATHER’ THEORY MAK HEADL
- BRANDI CARLILE TALKS NEW MEMOIR, LGBTQ PARENTG AND HER 'GAY PEN-PAL FATHER FIGURE' ELTON JOHN
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
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MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
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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. 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.
GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
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HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
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‘GAY BEE OF ABSENT FATHER’ THEORY MAK HEADL
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