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Contents:
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
- THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
- SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
- GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
- 33 FAMO GAY DADS FOR FATHER'S DAY
- DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
- IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads." * members of gay dad *
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.
MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
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Heynen at an event at the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center New York Cy. 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.
THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
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As a Black, gay man raisg a son on his own, Mr. 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.
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SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’
Give a big Father's Day hug to Ricky Mart, Neil Patrick Harris, and Anrson Cooper — as well as the rt of our hight-profile gay dads. * members of gay dad *
“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.
HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
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“Most of the women are Mormon, and Mormons don’t believe gay marriage and gays havg kids.
GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
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.
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33 FAMO GAY DADS FOR FATHER'S DAY
This YA g-of-age novel follows high schooler Sal, who was adopted to a lovg Mexin Amerin fay by his gay father, when he begs to qutn his inty and place the world durg his senr year. This one-hour documentary followed the fay liv of four gay fai and the legal and cultural hurdl the men faced to bee fathers. The director and producer is Johnny Symons, himself a gay father of an adopted son wh his partner the Bay Area.
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DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
So I realized I was gay, but I was like sred, nfed. But the procs for sgle people, particularly relatively olr gay men, he says, was difficult.
IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
Black, gay and heavyset the South, he was raised by a sgle mother a fay of sgle mothers. DUSTIN LING "Sometim the gay muny is seen as, oh, 's the funny guy who's always about fashn or always about travel, " says Dt Lg.