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‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

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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.

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Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads." * videos of gay dads *

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. 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.

SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’

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.

MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI

As a Black, gay man raisg a son on his own, Mr. Daddy & Papa is a one-hour documentary vio that opens a ndid wdow on the personal, cultural and polil implitns of gay fatherhood.

From surrogacy, foster re and terracial adoptn to the plexi of gay divorce and the legal battl around gay parentg, Daddy & Papa prents a revealg look at some of the gay fathers who are breakg new ground the ever-changg landspe of the Amerin fay. The film utiliz an accsible, first-person narrative to create an timate portrayal of gay dads, followg the filmmaker and his partner on their rocky, and sometim amg, journey to parenthood. Along the way, we meet other gay dads: a sgle father nontg the isolatn of raisg at-risk kids a gay and largely childls neighborhood; a healthre worker battlg Florida state law to adopt the child who for five years has lled him "Dad;" and a uple and their ne-year-old dghter, whose biggt problem is not that her parents are gay, but that they are divorced.

Daddy & Papa tak an unflchg look at some of the plex issu surroundg gay fatherhood, cludg the effect of sexual orientatn on children, the challenge of whe gay men raisg Ain Amerin kids, the changg relatnship of gay fathers to the gay muny and the real impact on children of beg raised whout a mother. Bt Documentary, Connecticut Gay & Lbian Film Ftival.