Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads."
Contents:
- TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
- DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- 'DON'T SNEAK': A FATHER'S COMMAND TO HIS GAY SON THE 1950S
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
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DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
ByABC NEWSJanuary 15, 2015, 1:34 PMIn the vio "Tws Come Out To Dad" posted on YouTube, two brothers me out to their Rhos Bros via YouTube— -- A Youtube vio of tw brothers appearg to tell their father they're gay has started to go viral wh more than 700, 000 views ls than 24 hours. Brothers Aaron and At Rhos posted the vio to their popular YouTube channel on Wednday to share the movg moment wh their more than 70, 000 the vio, the young brothers say they want to start the new year beg hont and then tell their viewers that they're gay. Clton, MarylandThey are the first both their fai to bee gay fathers, and received a warm wele to parenthood.
Asbury Park, New JerseyThe most stunng takeaway om photographg gay dads is the equaly of their partnership while raisg their children. Brooklyn, New YorkWhile makg Dads I was surprised to fd out how many gay sgle dads there are creatg their fay through adoptn or surrogacy. It was hard to fd black fai wh gay fathers livg NYC.
Province, Rho IslandArt and Jim were one of the first gay upl to bee fathers through adoptn. Tom and Mike wh their son Jack at a lacrosse practice at Horace Mann School, Bronx, New YorkThroughout the book the children of gay dads grow olr. Although the school and Jack’s iends know that Jack has two gay dads there was some tensn the air while posg for this photo the middle of a sports field wh all the other players around.
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
New York CySome gay dads choose not to share who the blogil father of their children is. Heynen planned to photograph for a book of photography featurg gay fathers and their children. ”Amerin culture has not been particularly starved of imag of gay fatherhood, particularly recent years.
Celebri like Anrson Cooper have helped normalize the ia of gay men raisg children, and no longer feels revelatory to see them on televisn, as did when “Morn Fay” premiered mon, Mr. 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. Heynen said, but rather a celebratn of the day-to-day liv of gay Jt for the YoungCly Rose, 61, and Ryan, 12Cly Rose, who liv Manhattan, was first photographed for “Dads” three years ago after meetg Mr. Heynen at an event at the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center New York Cy.
'DON'T SNEAK': A FATHER'S COMMAND TO HIS GAY SON THE 1950S
Heynen “a lot of cred” for cludg a father like him — a sgle dad his 60s — sce he said there is often a lack of reprentatn of olr gay people art and media, which tends to foc on young, f men.
As a Black, gay man raisg a son on his own, Mr. 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.
MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
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. 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.