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Here's How That Unexpectedly Changed My Life<span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></h1><style data-emotn="css 1cgvs9y">{font-fay:GTWalsheim,Helveti,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;marg-bottom:0.625rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.0625rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.25rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.5rem;le-height:1.2;}} a{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;} a:hover{lor:#B20B16;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><div class="css-1cgvs9y exadjwu8"><p>In tradg Broadway for baseball, Bradley Jabs Sigmund reflects on the wele by-product of his son's athleticism: straight male iendships. </p></div><style data-emotn="css 1yvxpqj">{marg-bottom:0.625rem;paddg-right:0.3125rem;font-fay:GTWalsheim,Helveti,sans-serif;font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1;letter-spacg:0.05em;text-transform:upperse;} span{le-height:1.6;}</style><div class="css-1yvxpqj exadjwu7"><style data-emotn="css ku2dj9">{font-style:normal;paddg-right:0.3125rem;font-fay:GTWalsheim,Helveti,sans-serif;font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1;letter-spacg:0.05em;text-transform:upperse;}</style><addrs class="css-ku2dj9 ehvvd9m2"><style data-emotn="css 6ywij2">{paddg-right:0.3125rem;font-fay:GTWalsheim,Helveti,sans-serif;font-size:0.70003rem;le-height:1;letter-spacg:0.05em;text-transform:upperse;}</style><span class="css-6ywij2 ehvvd9m1">By Bradley Jabs Sigmund</span><style data-emotn="css w0ebia">{display:le-block;text-transform:upperse;marg-left:0.625rem;}</style><time class="css-w0ebia exadjwu6">Published: Jun 14, 2019</time></addrs></div></div></div></hear><style data-emotn="css k008qs">{display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;}</style><div class="css-k008qs ewisyje0"><style data-emotn="css 7ce51e">{marg-bottom:0.9375rem;posn:relative;}@media(max-width: 64rem){{max-width:lc(100vw - (1rem * 2));marg-left:1rem;marg-right:1rem;} .e152u5os0{width:100vw;marg-left:lc(-1 * 1rem);}}@media(m-width: 48rem) and (max-width: 61.25rem){{marg-left:to;marg-right:to;} .e152u5os0{width:100vw;marg-left:lc((100vw - (lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem) - 2 * 1rem)) / -2);}}@media(m-width: 61.25rem) and (max-width: 90rem){{max-width:lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem);marg-left:lc((100vw - lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem) - 1rem - 20.625rem) / 2);paddg-left:1rem;paddg-right:1rem;} .e152u5os0{width:100vw;marg-left:lc(lc((100vw - lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem) - 1rem - 20.625rem) / -2) - 1rem);}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{marg-left:lc((100vw - lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem)) / 2);max-width:lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem);paddg-left:1rem;paddg-right:1rem;} .e152u5os0{width:100vw;marg-left:lc(lc((100vw - lc(20.625rem * 2 + 1rem)) / -2) - lc(2 * 1rem));}[data-has-sponsor] {marg-left:lc((100vw - lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem)) / 4);marg-right:lc((100vw - lc(20.625rem * 2 - 1rem)) / 4);}}</style><div class="standard-ntaer ntent-ntaer article-ntaer css-7ce51e ewisyje3"><style data-emotn="css trzem2">{jtify-self:center;posn:relative;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{marg-left:-50vw;marg-right:-50vw;width:100vw;left:50%;right:50%;}}</style><div class="ntent-lead css-trzem2 ewisyje6"><style data-emotn="css sm2oir">{height:to;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{marg:to lc(50% - 50vw);}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{marg:to;}}</style><div class="ntent-lead-image css-sm2oir e5f9kgu2"><style data-emotn="css eag3eq">{posn:relative;height:to;}</style><div class="css-eag3eq e5f9kgu1"><style data-emotn="css 335qep">{posn:relative;width:100%;height:100%;object-f:ver;vertil-align:top;}</style><img fetchPrry="high" alt="Clip art, Le, Graphics, Colorfulns, " tle="Clip art, Le, Graphics, Colorfulns, " width="1920" height="1080" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; 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Each of them were straight. How did this happen?

 </p><p data-no-id="1" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">When my partner, Jack, and I cid to bee fathers ne years ago, everyone told to "expect the unexpected.” I rolled my ey. I’d heard all about diapers and sippy cups, playdat and sleepls nights. And sure, I expected some athletics along the way. Then our son Lus, now 7, turned out to be — as Jack lls him — “<em>all</em> boy.” As a sports-averse gay man terted books, Broadway, and the big screen, ’s been challengg to accept that my weekends now overflow wh basketballs, baseball diamonds — and bros. Among the eye-openg out of havg a super-sporty son: iendships wh an unrreprented mographic my life . . . straight guys.

</p><p data-no-id="2" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">As a child, I ran om sports. I uldn’t throw a ball, was lost on a basketball urt, and although math was one of my bt subjects, I remaed nfound by football (“1st and ten”?). While I gaed my social footg as a teenager, wrg for the school newspaper and dancg on stage <em>Bye Bye Birdie</em> high school, I was chubby, a ltle fey; my md, at least, I had nothg mon wh the school’s athletic goln boys. Even though I eventually embraced my creative and artistic terts — and me out at age 19 — sports remaed a sore spot I largely steered clear of as an adult. Until now. 

</p><p data-no-id="3" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Wh Lus regularly playg soccer, basketball, and baseball, sports now make up a large part of my weekly route. And as ’s turned out, a host of heterosexual dad ras have been wh me every goal, basket, and home n of the way. </p><style data-emotn="css f1dz33">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:50%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="small" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="4" class="align-center size-small embed css-f1dz33 e1xqj1sx4"><style data-emotn="css uwraif">{width:100%;display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;-webk-flex-directn:lumn;-ms-flex-directn:lumn;flex-directn:lumn;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;-webk-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webk-jtify-ntent:center;jtify-ntent:center;}</style><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="Footwear, Standg, Wall, Knee, Jot, Leg, Sports equipment, Shoe, Vehicle, Human leg, " tle="Footwear, Standg, Wall, Knee, Jot, Leg, Sports equipment, Shoe, Vehicle, Human leg, " loadg="lazy" width="750" height="1334" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><style data-emotn="css swqnqv">@media(m-width: 20rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{paddg-left:0rem;}}</style><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><style data-emotn="css 37rghg">{font-fay:GTWalsheim,Helveti,sans-serif;font-size:0.875rem;le-height:1.2;m-width:100%;paddg-top:0.625rem;width:0;}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1rem;le-height:1.2;}} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><div class="css-37rghg e1xqj1sx1">Lus the soccer star</div><style data-emotn="css 1am3yn9">{paddg-left:0rem;le-height:1;}</style><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Courty of Bradley Jabs Sigmund</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="5" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">

Take soccer. Lus wants to be a league this fall, so over the past two months, I’ve rted him to dns — er, tryouts — wh five different clubs around New York Cy. One dad, David, whose son is another soccer aficnado, poted me toward the necsy of “turf sho” (who’d ever heard of such a thg?) and strategized wh about whether Lus should posn himself as a forward, a midfielr, or a fenr (is this me typg?). He even jumped on the phone wh me mut after Lus was dged by his first league. (The athletic director said he “isn’t the right f.” For Pete’s sake, he’s 7.) “Thg is, you gotta know that other boys have been trag for years,” David said, all tough love. “He’ll make on his own time. Until then, get ready, may be heart-wrenchg.” </p><p data-no-id="6" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">
Two other dads got me through the highs and lows of this sprg’s Ltle League gam, held both days of the weekend. Sgle, forty-somethg Daniel lov to chat between ngs about his parentg wo, and about datg women wh, well, daddy issu. (He’s promised to take me to the Lower East Si pick-up club The Blond so I n see how the other half mate.) And Joe has ma baseball bearable. He and I joke about the Jewish holidays and overshare about our middle-age cris. We created a group text lled the “Anx Jewish Support Group.” </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="7" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><style data-emotn="css 1eiql25">{text-align:center;marg:0rem;paddg-top:0.9375rem;paddg-bottom:0.9375rem;}</style><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><style data-emotn="css 1h5xk02">{font-fay:GTWalsheim,Helveti,sans-serif;font-size:1.625rem;font-weight:bold;le-height:1.2;marg:0rem;}@media(max-width: 48rem){{font-size:1.75rem;le-height:1.2;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{font-size:1.875rem;le-height:1.2;}} b, strong{font-fay:her;font-weight:bold;} em, i{font-fay:her;font-style:alic;}</style><blockquote class="css-1h5xk02 e1pe3zr90">A host of heterosexual dad ras have been wh me every goal, basket, and home n of the way.</blockquote><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="8" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">
Still other fathers have provid a new (to me) mararie. Over sprg break, Jack, Lus, and I took a beach vatn wh five other fai we met the year our son was Krgarten, cludg a pack of dads. The last time I was bare-chted and stg around a pool wh this many men, my back was waxed and I was downg Planter’s Punch and makg qutnable cisns the Fire Island P. Now there were wiv, children, beer. But other elements were the same: a hot tub, loungg on the beach, long nversatns while the sun set. </p><p data-no-id="9" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">Over a week of hangg out, I felt fortable, listened to, and spired by the bright, fearls fathers. By the time two darevil dads, Rashid and Josh, jumped 30 feet off a giant rock to the Caribbean waters while we all swam below, I’d veloped a sense of closens wh the guys that was very new to me. And didn’t matter that I chose not to jump. I didn’t feel judged. The dads accepted me as is.</p><style data-emotn="css 1736von">{--data-embed-display:flex;-webk-align-ems:center;-webk-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-ems:center;clear:both;display:-webk-box;display:-webk-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;marg-bottom:0.9375rem;marg-left:to;marg-right:to;width:100%;}@media(m-width: 20rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 30rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 40.625rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 48rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 64rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 73.75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 75rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}}@media(m-width: 90rem){{width:100%;marg:0 to 0.9375rem;}} a span{right:1rem;} img{width:to;height:85vh;} a{display:-webk-le-box;display:-webk-le-flex;display:-ms-le-flexbox;display:le-flex;posn:var(--posn, relative);} img:not(.ewcw41w1){display:block;width:100%;height:to;-webk-align-self:flex-start;-ms-flex-em-align:flex-start;align-self:flex-start;}</style><div size="medium" data-embed="body-image" data-no-id="10" class="align-center size-medium embed css-1736von e1xqj1sx4"><div class="css-uwraif e1xqj1sx3"><img alt="People, Team, Selfie, Communy, Photography, Cool, Se, Vatn, Event, Recreatn, " tle="People, Team, Selfie, Communy, Photography, Cool, Se, Vatn, Event, Recreatn, " loadg="lazy" width="1280" height="960" dg="async" data-nimg="1" style="lor: transparent; width: 100%; height: to;" siz="100vw" srcSet=" 640w, 980w, 1120w, 1200w, 1920w" src="" class="css-0 exi4f7p0" /><div class="css-swqnqv e1xqj1sx2"><div class="css-37rghg e1xqj1sx1">Jack, Lus, and Bradley </div><figptn class="css-1am3yn9 enfs9c50"><span class="css-r1wujd e6iqd2">Care of Bradley Jabs Sigmund</span></figptn></div></div></div><p data-no-id="11" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">That’s the funny thg that happened on the way to the soccer field: I felt embraced by the men bee, adulthood, I was secure enough to be myself around them. I owned my athletic ambivalence. I admted I felt out of place. The time I missed one of Lus’s three-poters basketball, I pped to the fact that I'd been scrollg Madonna’s Instagram. And you know what? The guys got . They lghed wh me, and appreciated my ndor. They shared as well: A uple of tim, dads have admted they’re challenged bee their sons aren’t particularly athletic. If I ever worried I’d be alienated the world of sile-dads, those feelgs have long lapsed. </p><div supprsHydratnWarng data-no-id="12" data-embed="pullquote" class="embed css-0 e9hzx6g0"><blockquote class="css-1eiql25 e1pe3zr91"><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p0"></span><blockquote class="css-1h5xk02 e1pe3zr90"> If I ever worried I’d be alienated the world of sile-dads, those feelgs have long lapsed.</blockquote><span aria-hidn="te" class="css-0 eagam8p1"></span></blockquote></div><p data-no-id="13" class="css-aeyldl et3p2gv0">
Which brgs me back to my birthday serena. Jack and I go for bimonthly “dad drks” wh the sprg break crew and other school fathers. The most recent of the gathergs — held at the trendy No Bar New York's East Village — cid wh my birthday, so Jack surprised wh a ke. The last time I n rell seven guys standg around a bar sgg me “Happy Birthday,” I was turng 26 at a long-shuttered Wt Village late night gay spot known as Hell. Yet as I chatted wh my dad brethren this particular night, I saw once and for all that — now that we’re fathers — the guys aren’t all that different om me. Brian knew every nuance of the fal arc of <em><style data-emotn="css 5z6rvi">{-webk-text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn:unrle;text-ratn-thickns:0.0625rem;text-ratn-lor:her;text-unrle-offset:0.25rem;lor:her;-webk-transn:all 0.3s ease--out;transn:all 0.3s ease--out;}{lor:#B20B16;text-ratn-lor:borr-lk-body-hover;}</style><a href=" target="_blank" data-vars-ga-outbound-lk=" data-vars-ga-ux-element="Hyperlk" data-vars-ga-ll-to-actn="Game of Thron" class="body-lk css-5z6rvi et3p2gv0">Game of Thron</a></em>. Raj and Atul hashed out schools, mps, and the bt summer cktails. Miguel and I chatted about reers and his powerhoe lbian sister. 

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This Sunday, give a big Father's Day hug to Ricky Mart, Neil Patrick Harris, and Perez Hilton -- as well as the rt of our hight-profile gay dads.

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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.

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Photographer Bart Heynen's book "Dads" is a journey to gay fatherhood the Uned Stat, wh more than 40 fai portrayed. * gay dads with sons *

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.

A FATHER’S JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD AMERI

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 wife and his children. * gay dads with sons *

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. 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.

THE STORY BEHD THE INIC PHOTO OF GAY DADS KISSG

I’m the proud owner of five dads. 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... * gay dads with sons *

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. 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.

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I was 32 years old, gay and a relatnship wh another man. I was a gay father wh two 6-year-old boys livg New York Cy wh my hband. 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.

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Give a big Father's Day hug to Ricky Mart, Neil Patrick Harris, and Anrson Cooper — as well as the rt of our hight-profile gay dads. * gay dads with sons *

The story of "Gay Dads Kissg" is a story about mment to showg love and the wakg up of the publishg world.

THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS

For Father's Day, NPR spoke to three, gay sgle fathers who ma the choice to bee parents via surrogacy. * gay dads with sons *

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. In the 1980s most gay men still did not talk about or adm to beg gay.

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

While growg up on a Washgton state dairy farm the 1950s, Patrick Haggerty realized he was gay. In this animated feature om our partners at StoryCorps, he tells his dghter, Rob, about the day his father showed up unexpectedly to his performance at a school assembly. * gay dads with sons *

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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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.

33 FAMO GAY DADS FOR FATHER'S DAY

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.

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

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. 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.

TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD

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.

THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW

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.

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

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?

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