Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads."
Contents:
- SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’
- THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
- WHAT’S A MOTHER TO DO WHEN HER GAY TEENAGE SON IS DATG A MAN TWICE HIS AGE?
- DREAM DADDY: HOW THE GAY DAD DATG SIM BEME A H GAME OF THE SUMMER
- IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
- SHOULD I LET MY (MAYBE) GAY TEENAGE SON HAVE SLEEPOVERS WH BOYS?
SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’
Stt Takacs, a 46-year-old and father of three, penned a personal say about his experience g out as a gay man to his wife and his children. * gay dad son dating *
Stt Takacs, a 46-year-old and father of three, penned a personal say about his experience g out as a gay man to his sons. There wasn't much of a plan, no guibook hand, only goals that I hoped my boys would start the procs of unrstandg and acceptg their dad for whom I tly was: a gay Stt TakacsIt had been a long 15 months sce g out to my wife, an experience I unfortunately wouldn't scribe as posive, fun or somethg I ever want to repeat. Wh many emotns and strs, I accepted her requt to keep the reason for our divorce -- due to me beg gay -- a secret for at least another year.
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THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
For Father's Day, NPR spoke to three, gay sgle fathers who ma the choice to bee parents via surrogacy. * gay dad son dating *
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WHAT’S A MOTHER TO DO WHEN HER GAY TEENAGE SON IS DATG A MAN TWICE HIS AGE?
When Bob Morris' widowed father cid to start datg aga at the age of 80, gus who found himself sortg through the personals? In Assisted Lovg, Morris chronicl the search for Dad's new Ms. Right — and his own misadventur the romantic jungle that is Manhattan's gay ghetto. * gay dad son dating *
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DREAM DADDY: HOW THE GAY DAD DATG SIM BEME A H GAME OF THE SUMMER
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IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
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MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
"It's a temptg sk to slip to—to pretend I'm jt some uncultured gay kid. When I do somethg right, like help him bag the groceri or tell him I'm game to let his gay neighbor be "our third" tonight, he tells me I'm a good a few weeks, 's zy and surreal to play the son of a man who's not my real father, pecially when my real one liv across the untry.
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SHOULD I LET MY (MAYBE) GAY TEENAGE SON HAVE SLEEPOVERS WH BOYS?
”Fzpatrick, whose father, a gay Black man, was killed senselsly by gun vlence the parkg lot of a gay bar when Fzpatrick was 18, says that fatherhood gave him unique opportuni to turn his paful past to purpose through the love of his dghter. “I thk that gay parents make the bt parents the world, ” he says.