Ever sce same-sex marriage beme legal across the US, there has been a baby boom the gay muny – om New York Cy to Utah – as the touchg imag show
Contents:
- 'DON'T SNEAK': A FATHER'S COMMAND TO HIS GAY SON THE 1950S
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
- DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
'DON'T SNEAK': A FATHER'S COMMAND TO HIS GAY SON THE 1950S
Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads." * gay father and son cartoons *
In this StoryCorps animated short, The Sat of Dry Creek, he remembers the advice his father, a dairy farmer, gave him when he realized his son was gay.
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.
MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
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. “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.
Abplanalp never knew when he was younger that fatherhood would be possible for him as gay man.
Listen: “Daddy Squared: The Gay Dads Podst” (2019-ongog).
DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
Hosted by Wt Hollywood uple Yan and Alex, the dads e each episo to chat parentg and relatnships, and lately have been focg each episo on the gay rights and fatherhood pathways by untry, and vg a gay father om each lotn on as a gut.