Gay men who are raisg kids talk to NBC OUT about their fai and the unique benefs and challeng of gay fatherhood.
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I HAD TWO GAY DADS DES BEFORE IT WAS 'COOL'
"When my two dads met 40 years ago the notn of startg a fay as an openly gay uple was unheard of." * i have 2 gay dads *
I’ll never fet my first day of krgarten bee was the day I learned that not everyone had two gay dads, two brothers and a beagle named Hymie. Then havg to rrect and rm the quisor that my dads were gay when they jt assumed my parents were divorced and remarried which rulted my havg two dads.
MY TWO DADS: GAY FATHERS HAVE MUCH TO CELEBRATE
* i have 2 gay dads *
” But when my two dads met 40 years ago the notn of startg a fay as an openly gay uple wasn’t jt far-fetched, was unheard of.
A phenomenon I n only attribute to my Dad and Pop’s parentg, and their sistence that we be surround by strong, female figur (like nanni and Aunts), whose prence likely circumvented the “void” that some children ascribe to not knowg their birth I graduated llege 2014 and realized that people were still shocked to learn that I have two gay dads, I knew was important for me to e my unique posn as a child of same-sex parents to ntribute to the “normalizatn” of fai like me – somethg that as a child I had always yearned to do, but at the time lacked the rourc to acplish. They talked about how hard had been to be gay their time, and how had st both of them their reers.