Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads."
Contents:
- AFTER ORLANDO, 21 PHOTOS OF GAY DADS AND THEIR KIDS TO HELP YOU SE AGA
- 2 GAY ACH HELP GAY DADS NAVIGATE THEIR KIDS’ TERT SPORTS
- FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
- KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
- PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE
- HOW IS REBRANDG THE MORN FAY
- OPN: REPUBLINS ONCE WENT AFTER GAY UPL. NOW THEY’RE TARGETG LGBTQ KIDS
- GAY UPLE ADOPT BABY THEY FOUND ABANDONED A SUBWAY STATN
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
AFTER ORLANDO, 21 PHOTOS OF GAY DADS AND THEIR KIDS TO HELP YOU SE AGA
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2 GAY ACH HELP GAY DADS NAVIGATE THEIR KIDS’ TERT SPORTS
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FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
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KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
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PARENTS OF GAY CHILDREN AND THE ISSU THEY FACE
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HOW IS REBRANDG THE MORN FAY
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Cis and straight adoptive and foster parents, and why those numbers matter when to implementg tly reprentative more about beg a father as a gay/bi/trans man at and follow on social media @gays_wh_kidsThanks to this episo's sponsors, Mosie Baby, fd out more about at-home sematn ks at, and Ltle Spoon, go to and enter GWK50 for 50% off your first orr of anic baby, toddler and kid food. Havg kids former straight relatnships is one of the most mon ways gay, bi and trans men bee fathers. But what is not often discsed is jt what gay men go through when they e out to their wife and kids, how much strength tak for them to build a whole new life, and the joy that n exist after wounds have started to episo, hear an spiratnal story of rilience wh Nigel Sellens, a dad Atralia who me out as gay after he and his ex-wife had had six kids, the youngt of whom is a special needs child.
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OPN: REPUBLINS ONCE WENT AFTER GAY UPL. NOW THEY’RE TARGETG LGBTQ KIDS
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GAY UPLE ADOPT BABY THEY FOUND ABANDONED A SUBWAY STATN
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