INTRODUCTIONEvery year on Father’s Day, the media give nsirable attentn to our fathers, our grandfathers, our brothers and our sons by highlightg the ntributns they make to their fai and muni. The liv of gay, bisexual and transgenr parents and their fai are often absent Father’s Day verage sce prt and electronic prs reports
Contents:
- THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- FATHER’S DAY FOR GAY BOYS
- THE GAY FATHERS PROJECT
- HALLMARK RELEAS FIRST-EVER GAY FATHER’S DAY CARD
- GAY FATHERS DAY GIFTS
THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
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. * gay fathers day *
Happy Father's Day to the famo gay dads!
Celebry gay fathers, whether they're actors, activists, micians, or policians, are showg the world that love is what mak a fay. Below, learn about high-profile gay dads such as Anrson Cooper, Denis O'Hare, Matt Bomer, Karamo Brown, Ricky Mart, and many more. "I me out at 16 years old as a proud gay man.
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
Father's Day and Gay Pri Month ci June, and rabow flags celebrate both -- and my father. * gay fathers day *
Wong -parents Jackson, who me out as gay as a teen, wh his ex-partner Richie Jackson, and Jackson's hband Jordan Roth. In late 1980, at a support group for gay fathers, my dad met Lnel –– the man wh whom he would spend the next 23 years. He had seemed kd of lost his new life – phg 60, recently divorced om my mother, recently out of the closet as gay man.
He asked that I march wh him, alongsi the other gay fathers and their kids, the Los Angel Pri Para. What I do remember was that someone had ma T-shirts that said "I LOVE MY GAY DAD" and I refed to wear one.
FATHER’S DAY FOR GAY BOYS
For Father's Day, NPR spoke to three, gay sgle fathers who ma the choice to bee parents via surrogacy. * gay fathers day *
I told my dad, “I love you, but not bee you’re gay.
” The tth, though, is that I lacked the urage to stand all the way up for my father and his ras agast a homophobic and different world.
THE GAY FATHERS PROJECT
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I probably left my "I LOVE MY GAY DAD" T-shirt next to the box had e out of, though I might have taken home wh me and buried a drawer. Pete Wilson’s office, or at the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay dad and his hband lost a lot of iends to AIDS.
Even when I was an obnox 22-year-old and wouldn’t put on a T-shirt to clare, unashamed, unembarrassed and unapologetic, that I love my gay dad. To much of the natn, the flags reprent gay pri — a month voted to the celebratn and support of gay rights.
HALLMARK RELEAS FIRST-EVER GAY FATHER’S DAY CARD
For me, those brightly lored flags reprent my father me out as gay when I was 5 years old.
My father would later tell me he knew he was gay for as long as he uld remember. And workg to keep one foot his “old” world — rated salman, volved father — and one foot his new gay liftyle, he was somethg of a pneer. Makg matters more difficult, my father was fg that new path the 1980s durg the natn’s AIDS crisis, when homophobia and the celty and ignorance of large swaths of Amerins were at heightened levels.
GAY FATHERS DAY GIFTS
There were members of our muny who lerally thought that sharg a meal wh a gay person or swimmg the same pool uld prove adly.
But step by step, my father ched forward, blendg his worlds, slowly but surely helpg those around him to unrstand that beg gay wasn’t somethg to be feared, that beg a dad and beg gay weren’t mutually exclive. Through his actns, my father shattered one stereotype after another, showg those around him that he uld be gay and love the Green Bay Packers, that he uld be gay and be a proud ary veteran, that he uld be gay and be an expert wh tools and lawnmowers and Weber grills.