Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads."
Contents:
- DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
- GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
- TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
Ever sce same-sex marriage beme legal across the US, there has been a baby boom the gay muny – om New York Cy to Utah – as the touchg imag show * father 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.
MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
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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. New York CySome gay dads choose not to share who the blogil father of their children is.
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.
HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
“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.
GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
“Most of the women are Mormon, and Mormons don’t believe gay marriage and gays havg kids. 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.
TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
Abplanalp never knew when he was younger that fatherhood would be possible for him as gay man.
Listen: “Daddy Squared: The Gay Dads Podst” (2019-ongog).