7 Gay Dads on the Intrici of Queer Fatherhood

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Yan Dekel and Alex Maghen, who host Daddy Squared: The Gay Dads Podst, found they had more mon wh straight parents than they thought.

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Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

The uple, who met Tel Aviv 2007 and were married 2014, have been nng Daddy Squared: The Gay Dads Podst for five years two told The Advote that was important to them to appear on a parentg show alongsi straight parents. "We were approached to do The Parent Tt right after 'don't say gay, ' which was so vastatg to me, passed Florida. My heart broke for all the ltle kids there who may thk they're gay and who will go to schools where who they are won't be discsed, won't be acknowledged.

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