Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads."
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
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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
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COMG OUT TO DAD: YOUNG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S EXPERIENC DISCLOSG SAME-SEX ATTRACTN TO THEIR FATHERS
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TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
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‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
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THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
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.
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VIDEO: HAPPY FATHER’S DAY! DADS WH THEIR GAY CHILDREN
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. 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.
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TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
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