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Contents:

• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• GAY DADDY PORN VIOS
• A FATHER’S JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD AMERI
• THE STORY BEHD THE INIC PHOTO OF GAY DADS KISSG
• 10 THGS YOU’LL ONLY KNOW IF YOU’VE GROWN UP WH GAY PARENTS
• DAD AND SON HOMEMA AMATR SEX VIO | GAY FAY PORN
• THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
• I'M A GAY DAD. MY SON LOV SPORTS. HERE'S HOW THAT UNEXPECTEDLY CHANGED MY LIFE
• IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
• A GAY SON’S RELLECTN OF HIS DAD’S ADVICE ON HOW TO LIVE HIS LIFE
• 33 FAMO GAY DADS FOR FATHER'S DAY
• GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
• TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
• THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
• YOUNG SONS OF GAY DAD SHARE THEIR POWERFUL BSH WH ANTIGAY BULLYG

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

Clton, MarylandThey are the first both their fai to bee gay fathers, and received a warm wele to parenthood. Asbury Park, New JerseyThe most stunng takeaway om photographg gay dads is the equaly of their partnership while raisg their children.

Brooklyn, New YorkWhile makg Dads I was surprised to fd out how many gay sgle dads there are creatg their fay through adoptn or surrogacy. It was hard to fd black fai wh gay fathers livg NYC. Province, Rho IslandArt and Jim were one of the first gay upl to bee fathers through adoptn.

Tom and Mike wh their son Jack at a lacrosse practice at Horace Mann School, Bronx, New YorkThroughout the book the children of gay dads grow olr. Although the school and Jack’s iends know that Jack has two gay dads there was some tensn the air while posg for this photo the middle of a sports field wh all the other players around.

GAY DADDY PORN VIOS

New York CySome gay dads choose not to share who the blogil father of their children is. 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.

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.

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.

A FATHER’S JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD AMERI

As a Black, gay man raisg a son on his own, Mr. Heynen’s photos show patriarchs varyg race, age and backgrounds but they also share one thg mon: They are all asked about the spiratn behd shootg this movg seri, the Belgian portra photographer said:“Almost 20 years ago, November 3, 2003, to be exact, New York Magaze published an article lled ‘Gay Baby Boom. I was 32 years old, gay and a relatnship wh another man.

THE STORY BEHD THE INIC PHOTO OF GAY DADS KISSG

I was a gay father wh two 6-year-old boys livg New York Cy wh my hband.

10 THGS YOU’LL ONLY KNOW IF YOU’VE GROWN UP WH GAY PARENTS

As a gay father I realized I wanted to meet more gay men who were also parents and at the same time as a photographer I found out there was no photography book about gay dads.

"Gay Dads Kissg" by J.

"Gay Dads Kissg" was a history-makg photograph that ntu to hearten and ronate wh many. The story of "Gay Dads Kissg" is a story about mment to showg love and the wakg up of the publishg world.

DAD AND SON HOMEMA AMATR SEX VIO | GAY FAY PORN

In the fall of 1982, Bghman’s attentn was ught by a small notice, almost missed, the Village Voice, an alternative newspaper New York Cy, for the monthly meetg of the Gay Fathers’ Fom support group.

THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS

In the 1980s most gay men still did not talk about or adm to beg gay. Most gay dads lived as straight men marriag. Bghman was also aware that a pendg feral urt se would ci whether gay fathers uld have ctody rights.

I'M A GAY DAD. MY SON LOV SPORTS. HERE'S HOW THAT UNEXPECTEDLY CHANGED MY LIFE

Their goal was to pict a happy, healthy gay fay wh dads willg to be visible to the world.

IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?

Life had yet to e the word gay the magaze, or highlight any person as LGBTQ+, let alone put them on the ver.

A GAY SON’S RELLECTN OF HIS DAD’S ADVICE ON HOW TO LIVE HIS LIFE

The photographer and thor, wh the help of the Gay Fathers’ Fom’s work, terviewed 49 upl before all the piec and requirements fell to place. Life published the 12 pag, but whout "Gay Dads Kissg. "Gay Dads Kissg" ran Christopher Street, a gay tert magaze, issue number 75, “Father Knows Bt, ” wh acpanyg text wrten by one of the dads, Michael.

” Bghman’s photograph "Gay Dads Kissg" found s double-page spread the sectn tled “In Love. Wh a few weeks of the article, Robert was beg set up to be fired for beg gay, but he had wisely set the stage to protect his job by garnerg support om the chairman—a black man, who also unrstood what workplace discrimatn meant. Michael also shared that he and Robert rema pleased to have been part of the history that raised the issue of parental rights for gay parents to a wir dience.

Sadly, Michael’s dghter, Brtan, seen the background of "Gay Dads Kissg, " passed away at the age of 33 om pnmonia. 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.

33 FAMO GAY DADS FOR FATHER'S DAY

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.

Homosexualy wasn't a topic well discsed our fay. Gay iends were jt iends -- rpected but their relatnships not necsarily discsed. Gay marriage was the news, but not discsed our hoe other than the ocsnal negative ment om a close relative.

GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG

In many ways, a lovg place for them, but I me to realize that teachers spoke openly agast gay culture and textbooks labeled homosexualy as sful and evil. My kids listened and followed their prr to g out, was hard for me to hear my kids e home wh stori of teachers gradg gay marriage or gay people, to see their workbooks, rercg the bias agast beg gay.

The last thg I wanted was for my kids to be treated differently bee they had a gay dad, which I felt was a the year followg my divorce, I agreed not to tell the kids I was gay, so I had to be reful. We were reful to avoid referenc to "gay" discsns and plac, although I lived the Gayborhood of Chigo, an upsle, predomantly gay area on Chigo's North Si.

He was a few years ahead of his brothers beg doctrated by his school agast homosexualy. He was fiant at tim and generally embarrassed about his gay dad. 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.

TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD

I thk he unrstands beg gay isn't a choice anymore, and I believe that will ex-wife certaly bore the bnt of the day-to-day wh the kids. 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. Before you ask, this breaks down as: my blogil father; my stepdad (his partner, y, my dad’s gay); my other stepdad (my mum’s partner); my father--law and my hband (the father of my two children).

But what you and everyone else wants to know is what is really like growg up wh gay parents?

Here are 10 thgs that everyone wh gay parents n relate to. While I was open about my parents spltg up, I knew the real reason behd the break-up uldn’t be talked about; the part where my dad me out as gay.

THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW

Has he always known he’s gay? He don’t look gay, do he? I thk their parents were sred they’d tch the ‘gay bug’ off my dads or me (I might rry too!

Sadly, there is a really difficult si to havg gay parents – homophobia – which isn’t down to your fay, ’s society’s flt. If ’s not bad enough hearg people e ‘gay’ as a scribg word, there’s a really nasty dark si that I endured. I tried to protect my dad, and not tell him about what was happeng at first, until I received answer phone msag at home om the bulli g homophobic slurs.

I felt guilty for puttg my parents through all, and I also hated myself for not pg – I wasn’t gay, so how uld I feel so cshed by homophobia? Throughout my late teens and early twenti, I attend Gay Pri events wh my dads, I mpaigned for LGBT issu and I ma a pot about beg wh my wonrful fay. In further tn, ’s ‘ol’ to have gay parents.

YOUNG SONS OF GAY DAD SHARE THEIR POWERFUL BSH WH ANTIGAY BULLYG

I went to universy where havg gay parents was seen as ‘ol’. When your gay parents bee grandparents.

As my dghter’s t-shirt says: ‘My grandads are gay.

His work appeared the German book Me schul Auge/ my Gay Gaze II, and most recently was a featured artist an exposn at Art Murmur, Oakland, you like his work, you will enjoy his portfol se, Instagram, Twter, and Flickr as well. Happy Father's Day to the famo gay dads! Celebry gay fathers, whether they're actors, activists, micians, or policians, are showg the world that love is what mak a fay.