After matriculatg to medil school the fall of 2013, I was drowng. It seemed that who I was—a Black, gay man—uld not exist wh the medil system.
Contents:
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
- 'AS A BLACK, GAY PHYSICIAN, I'VE SURVIVED IN AMERI BY EMBRACG MY ANGER'
- ON BEG GAY IN MEDICE: A LEADG HARVARD PEDIATRICIAN'S STORY
- GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads." * gay doctors and gay sons *
We know that many lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and nonbary people have had poor healthre experienc — and we’re here to change that. Another great rource is the GLMA (Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn) provir directory, Bce Olmscheid, M. The provirs the directory have agreed to certa affirmatns listed on GLMA’s webse, such as: “I wele lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals and fai to my practice and offer all health servic to patients on an equal basis, regardls of sexual orientatn, genr inty, maral stat, and other non-medilly relevant factors.
'AS A BLACK, GAY PHYSICIAN, I'VE SURVIVED IN AMERI BY EMBRACG MY ANGER'
* gay doctors and gay sons *
”You n also try Googlg "gay doctor" or “LGBTQ+ doctor” your area, Dr. 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.
ON BEG GAY IN MEDICE: A LEADG HARVARD PEDIATRICIAN'S STORY
Fathers and gay sons: A plited, vally important relatnship. * gay doctors and gay sons *
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.
GAY MEN AND THEIR FATHERS: HURT AND HEALG
“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.