For Father's Day, NPR spoke to three, gay sgle fathers who ma the choice to bee parents via surrogacy.
Contents:
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- 10 THGS YOU’LL ONLY KNOW IF YOU’VE GROWN UP WH GAY PARENTS
- IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
- GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?
- KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
- AFTER ORLANDO, 21 PHOTOS OF GAY DADS AND THEIR KIDS TO HELP YOU SE AGA
- TWO DADS ADOPT THEIR SEVENTH CHILD, A GAY TEEN
- THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
- DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
I’m the proud owner of five dads. Before you ask, this breaks down as: my blogil father; my stepdad (his partner, y, my dad’s gay); my other stepdad (my mum's... * gay dads and teens *
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10 THGS YOU’LL ONLY KNOW IF YOU’VE GROWN UP WH GAY PARENTS
The days, gay parents are no novelty. * gay dads and teens *
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.
IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
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As a Black, gay man raisg a son on his own, Mr. Before you ask, this breaks down as: my blogil father; my stepdad (his partner, y, my dad’s gay); my other stepdad (my mum’s partner); my father--law and my hband (the father of my two children).
GAY PARENTS RAISG KIDS: HOW WILL THEY FARE?
The Father's Day photos of gay dads and their fai show that love all forms. * gay dads and teens *
But what you and everyone else wants to know is what is really like growg up wh gay parents? Here are 10 thgs that everyone wh gay parents n relate to.
While I was open about my parents spltg up, I knew the real reason behd the break-up uldn’t be talked about; the part where my dad me out as gay. Has he always known he’s gay?
He don’t look gay, do he?
KIDS OF GAY PARENTS FARE WORSE, STUDY FDS, BUT REARCH DRAWS FIRE OM EXPERTS
Two fathers adopt a gay teen. * gay dads and teens *
I thk their parents were sred they’d tch the ‘gay bug’ off my dads or me (I might rry too!
AFTER ORLANDO, 21 PHOTOS OF GAY DADS AND THEIR KIDS TO HELP YOU SE AGA
Give a big Father's Day hug to Ricky Mart, Neil Patrick Harris, and Anrson Cooper — as well as the rt of our hight-profile gay dads. * gay dads and teens *
Sadly, there is a really difficult si to havg gay parents – homophobia – which isn’t down to your fay, ’s society’s flt.
TWO DADS ADOPT THEIR SEVENTH CHILD, A GAY TEEN
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If ’s not bad enough hearg people e ‘gay’ as a scribg word, there’s a really nasty dark si that I endured.
THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads." * gay dads and teens *
I tried to protect my dad, and not tell him about what was happeng at first, until I received answer phone msag at home om the bulli g homophobic slurs. I felt guilty for puttg my parents through all, and I also hated myself for not pg – I wasn’t gay, so how uld I feel so cshed by homophobia?
Throughout my late teens and early twenti, I attend Gay Pri events wh my dads, I mpaigned for LGBT issu and I ma a pot about beg wh my wonrful fay. In further tn, ’s ‘ol’ to have gay parents.
MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
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I went to universy where havg gay parents was seen as ‘ol’. When your gay parents bee grandparents.
As my dghter’s t-shirt says: ‘My grandads are gay. Are you a dghter whose dad is gay?
Or are you a gay dad? gay: 1. Most children whose dads are gay were born while their blogil mom and blogil dad were married and livg together.
DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
If you have a gay dad or a lbian mom, after they separate, which of them is most likely to remarry or to remarry and then divorce? Lbian moms are more likely than gay dads to marry their same-sex partner. But gay dads are ls likely to get divorced om their hbands than lbian moms are to get divorced om their wiv.