mchmen, the se for the drawgs, stori and art of Mchell the gay artist
Contents:
- GAY DADS BLOG
- GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
- IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
- DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
GAY DADS BLOG
Growg up wh a gay father created challeng for both my Dad & I. His journey out of the Bible Belt & closet was not easy. Most importantly though . . . * gay dad blog *
Sven and Jam are a gay uple livg Sydney, Atralia, but origally om South Ai. The blog is home to his obssns wh pop culture and superhero, the ocsnal craftg project, and his adventur beg the gay dad of an adopted son.
Bran Sanford om Los Angel is a stay-at-home gay dad raisg a son and a triplets!
But I knew he was gay by the time I was 7 or 8. So this is my story of growg up wh a gay father. Growg up wh a gay father, particularly one who was aaid to e out, prented challeng our abily to get emotnally close.
GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
Brish gay dads Jamie and Tom and their sons Lyall and Richard ve you to jo them on their fay adventure. Vuel top 5 LGBTQ blog, Natnal Adoptn Week blog of the year 2017-18, UK Blog Awards 2019 falist. * gay dad blog *
I don’t rell a time when I didn’t know my Dad was gay. From my earlit memori of my Dad around age 5, I thk I always knew my dad was gay. Th I never had that aha moment of realizg “I have a gay father”!
To hear both of them tell , my Dad beg gay wasn’t a factor the spl. How my Dad me to terms wh beg gay. I don’t thk anyone knew yet that my Dad was gay.
IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
* gay dad blog *
After all, he was the son of a Baptist Preacher and there would not have been much tolerance the 1940’s or 50’s for him to e out as gay. In talkg to both of them over the years, they both claim they had no ia my Dad was gay. In retrospect, the fact that he was a cheerlear his bt iend was a male hairdrser (who was openly gay) that my Uncle Buddy nicknamed him “Percy” (which my Dad hated) and that my Dad went on to open a home furnishgs store might have been a clue.
Realizg his sexualy and beg a gay father the late 1960s, pecially wh me a long way away, mt have been really transformative for my Dad. He lived and around the Oak Lawn area of Dallas (long a predomantly gay or at least gay-iendly neighborhood). He was meetg lots of openly gay people & gog to clubs where was OK to be openly gay.
Beg a gay father the 1960s. My Dad never actually me out as gay to me or to most people. I’d known my Dad is gay for some time, but we’d never discsed .
DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
My Dad, of urse, was sistent that no one would obvly know he was gay (which also ma Tom and I lgh). Are you a gay father stgglg to e out? In Loren’s se, he didn’t e to terms wh beg gay until the age of 40 and was married wh children at the time.