Contents:
- GAY PARENTHOOD AND THE END OF PATERNYAS WE KNEW IT
- IS DREW LYNCH GAY? WHY HIS PARENTS QUTNED HIS SEXUALY
- IS DREW CAREY GAY? THE GENR ORIENTATN OF THE AMERIN COMEDIAN AND VETERAN
GAY PARENTHOOD AND THE END OF PATERNYAS WE KNEW IT
19 | Durg all the speculatn that Parenthood‘s Drew might be gay, did you ever, even for a send, thk Haddie would turn out to be the show’s (sorely lackg) gay character?! Bee homosexuals are rarely monogamo, often havg as many as three hundred or more partners a lifetime — some studi say is typilly more than one thoand — children those polyamoro suatns are ught a perpetual g and gog.
Gay fathers were once as unthkable as they were visible.
IS DREW LYNCH GAY? WHY HIS PARENTS QUTNED HIS SEXUALY
Was by nvcg policians and the public to regard risg rat of fatherlsns as a natnal emergency, 1 growg numbers of gay men were embracg fatherhood.
Examg the experienc of gay men who have openly pursued parenthood agast the odds n help to unrstand forc that unrlie the cle of paterny as we knew .
IS DREW CAREY GAY? THE GENR ORIENTATN OF THE AMERIN COMEDIAN AND VETERAN
Contrary to the fears of many the marriage promotn movement, however, gay parentg is not a new symptom of the mise of fatherhood, but of s creative, if ntroversial, reventn. When I paid close attentn to gay men’s parentg sir, efforts, challeng, and achievements, I unearthed ccial featur of ntemporary paterny and parenthood more generally. Gay men nont the featur of postmorn parenthood a magnified mo.
4 Gay men who choose to bee primary parents challenge nventnal fns of masculy and paterny and even domant sexual norms of gay culture self. Gay sex lumnist Dan Savage mocked the cultural stak volved when he and his partner were cidg to adopt a child: “Terry and I would be givg up certa thgs that, for better or worse, fe what means to be gay. Gay fatherhood reprents “planned parenthood” extremis.
Unlike most heterosexuals or even lbians, gay men have to stggle for accs to “the means of reproductn” whout benef of flt scripts for achievg or practicg parenthood. Gay male paterny tensifi this emphasis on social rather than blogil fns of parenthood.