Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads."
Contents:
- IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
- DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
- THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
- TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
- HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
IS YOUR DAD GAY—OR ARE YOU A GAY DAD?
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 * dad gay *
Are you a dghter whose dad is gay? Or are you a gay dad?
gay: 1. Most children whose dads are gay were born while their blogil mom and blogil dad were married and livg together. If you have a gay dad or a lbian mom, after they separate, which of them is most likely to remarry or to remarry and then divorce?
DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
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. * dad gay *
Lbian moms are more likely than gay dads to marry their same-sex partner. But gay dads are ls likely to get divorced om their hbands than lbian moms are to get divorced om their wiv. Gay men may experience more discrimatn than lbians, pecially if they are parents.
Our society is still ls acceptg of gay men beg fathers than of lbians beg mothers. But perhaps the most important rearch fdg is that gay dads and their dghters have closer relatnships when dads tell the tth—and the dads are ls clilly prsed than dads who hi this important rmatn om their children (Tornello, 2018). Sadly, gay fathers are more aaid than lbian mothers to tell their children the tth, regardls of their age.
THE GAY FATHER I NEVER KNEW
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So if you as a dghter or as a gay dad are still tiptoeg around the topic, ’s time to give yourselv a gift by gettg this skeleton out of the closet.
TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
(2018) Adult children of gay fathers. Journal of Homosexualy, 65, 1152-1166.
His work appeared the German book Me schul Auge/ my Gay Gaze II, and most recently was a featured artist an exposn at Art Murmur, Oakland, you like his work, you will enjoy his portfol se, Instagram, Twter, and Flickr as well.
HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
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.
MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
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. 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. 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.