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"When my two dads met 40 years ago the notn of startg a fay as an openly gay uple was unheard of."

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I HAD TWO GAY DADS DES BEFORE IT WAS 'COOL'

I’ll never fet my first day of krgarten bee was the day I learned that not everyone had two gay dads, two brothers and a beagle named Hymie.

Then havg to rrect and rm the quisor that my dads were gay when they jt assumed my parents were divorced and remarried which rulted my havg two dads. ” But when my two dads met 40 years ago the notn of startg a fay as an openly gay uple wasn’t jt far-fetched, was unheard of. A phenomenon I n only attribute to my Dad and Pop’s parentg, and their sistence that we be surround by strong, female figur (like nanni and Aunts), whose prence likely circumvented the “void” that some children ascribe to not knowg their birth I graduated llege 2014 and realized that people were still shocked to learn that I have two gay dads, I knew was important for me to e my unique posn as a child of same-sex parents to ntribute to the “normalizatn” of fai like me – somethg that as a child I had always yearned to do, but at the time lacked the rourc to acplish.

We are also known as Le Fab Trois onle -- which translat to The Fab Three -- and this month, we will bee the first fay wh gay dads to appear on a realy-based Disney, a ltle about : We are an ternatnal fay! While there is some visibily currently for queer fai wh gay dads like Ricky Mart, Jse Tyler Fergon, Andy Cohen, Anrson Cooper, and Mr.

ONE OF BRA'S FIRST GAY DADS TO MARRY DGHTER'S EX-BOYIEND AFTER PROPOSG ON TRIP

Startg the 1970s, however, a few state urts upheld ctody rights for transgenr, gay, and lbian parents, though some still required that they not live wh a partner or engage “homosexual activi. Bill Jon, a gay man, 1968 beme the first sgle father to adopt a child California and one of the first natnally—although, as he told NPR  2015, he was obliquely advised by a social worker not to mentn that he was gay.

UK'S FIRST GAY DADS' TRIPLETS TO MAKE HISTORY WH 3 PARENTS ON BIRTH CERTIFIT

A later, New York beme the first state not to reject adoptn applints solely bee of “homosexualy. ” A gay uple California 1979 beme the first the untry to jotly adopt a child. It wasn’t until 1997, however, that New Jersey beme the first state to allow same-sex upl to adopt jotly statewi, and not until 2010 did the last state, Florida, overturn a ban on adoptn by gay men and lbians.

) The same year, a Brish gay uple had children through surrogacy California, where a urt for the first time allowed two gay dads to be on their children’s birth certifite.

SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’

Siar groups for lbian mothers and gay fathers formed other ci. In 1977, lawyers Donna Hchens and Roberta Achtenberg San Francis began the Lbian Rights Project, which helped both lbian moms and gay dads.

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Sgle gay dads give tips for first-time parents: ‘I created the village around myself’.

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