Three sgle, gay dads talk about their journeys. : NPR

Contents:

• MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
• THE STORY BEHD THE PHOTOGRAPH: GAY DADS KISSG, 1983
• COMG OUT TO DAD: YOUNG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S EXPERIENC DISCLOSG SAME-SEX ATTRACTN TO THEIR FATHERS
• TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
• VIDEO: HAPPY FATHER’S DAY! DADS WH THEIR GAY CHILDREN
• TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD

MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI

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. “I felt a ltle b lonely as a gay dad – although there are two of – but lonely the sense that all the other fai I knew were straight parents, ” Heynen said a vio ll, explag why he began photographg the seri. “I also thought was important for (my kids) to see other fai wh gay dads.

“For many people, the book will be an troductn to gay fatherhood. For Heynen, they reprent addnal love and re and help illtrate some of the cisn-makg that, though not exclive to them, all gay fathers mt ntend wh. “Most of the women are Mormon, and Mormons don’t believe gay marriage and gays havg kids.

Heynen, as well as the fathers he photographed, hope that the photographs “Dads” will dispel some of the hurtful stereotyp that still lger around gay fatherhood. Abplanalp never knew when he was younger that fatherhood would be possible for him as gay man. Listen: “Daddy Squared: The Gay Dads Podst” (2019-ongog).

THE STORY BEHD THE PHOTOGRAPH: GAY DADS KISSG, 1983

Hosted by Wt Hollywood uple Yan and Alex, the dads e each episo to chat parentg and relatnships, and lately have been focg each episo on the gay rights and fatherhood pathways by untry, and vg a gay father om each lotn on as a gut. Patrick, who played a terracial gay uple who eventually marry and adopt two children.

COMG OUT TO DAD: YOUNG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S EXPERIENC DISCLOSG SAME-SEX ATTRACTN TO THEIR FATHERS

This YA g-of-age novel follows high schooler Sal, who was adopted to a lovg Mexin Amerin fay by his gay father, when he begs to qutn his inty and place the world durg his senr year. This one-hour documentary followed the fay liv of four gay fai and the legal and cultural hurdl the men faced to bee fathers. The director and producer is Johnny Symons, himself a gay father of an adopted son wh his partner the Bay Area.

Savage beme an ternatnally regnized sex lumnist and activist the 1990s and ’00s for his ank cultural sight to gay relatnships and inty.

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 Dads Kissg by J. In his memoir, Angle, Bghman reunted how the powerful image of Robert and Michael—along wh Eryn on piggyback—me to 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.

TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD

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.

Their goal was to pict a happy, healthy gay fay wh dads willg to be visible to the world. 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 outsi of Toronto, Canada, Michael was a letter rrier and Robert was an applitns ordator at the Worker’s Compensatn Board while gog to night school to earn a llege gree.

Life published the 12 pag, but whout Gay Dads Kissg.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

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.

THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS

Sadly, Michael’s dghter, Brtan, seen the background of Gay Dads Kissg, passed away at the age of 33 om pnmonia. A Current Affair reporter Ben McCormack directed a sick gay ct film that shows a father performg a sex act on his adult son, Daily Mail Atralia n reveal.

VIDEO: HAPPY FATHER’S DAY! DADS WH THEIR GAY CHILDREN

McCormack, who was yterday charged wh sendg child pornography, wrote and directed a five-mute film about a young man's trip to a gay bath hoe protagonist, who wears nothg more than a towel for most of the short film, is seen beg pleasured by an anonymo man, who is later revealed to be his of McCormack's lleagu at ACA said people at the work were disgted by the film - and revealed that he had planned to settle down and have children before his shockg arrt. Reporter Ben McCormack directed a sick gay ct film that shows a father performg a sex act on his son.

Pictured, the son the film A Current Affair journalist McCormack wrote and directed a five-mute film about a young man's trip to a gay bath hoe Brisbane.

The black-and-whe film, filmed 2001, was shot at an ner-cy gay bath hoe Brisbane. 'Ben has been openly gay the entire time he was at Ne, ' they said.

TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD

" McCormack's movie, lled 'Fay Outg', shows a young man nervoly walkg through a sex club wearg only a towel as other men leer at himMen are seen touchg each other si the Brisbane bath hoe durg the short film The black-and-whe film was shot at an ner-cy gay bath hoe Brisbane. 'It was nontg but wasn't strange bee I knew that Ben was gay, ' the source source, who said they have not spoken to McCormack for 15 years, said none of the actors or crew were paid for workg on the film.

'His arrt me as a real shock bee we thought there were no surpris about Ben - he was open about beg gay even though Ne is not exactly the most gay-iendly place to work. Happy Father's Day to the famo gay dads!