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Contents:

• 20 FAMO GAY DADS TO CELEBRATE FATHER'S DAY & PRI MONTH
• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• HAPPY FATHER’S DAY: PEARLS OF WISDOM OM MY GAY DADS

20 FAMO GAY DADS TO CELEBRATE FATHER'S DAY & PRI MONTH

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. Wong -parents Jackson, who me out as gay as a teen, wh his ex-partner Richie Jackson, and Jackson's hband Jordan Roth. To much of the natn, the flags reprent gay pri — a month voted to the celebratn and support of gay rights.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

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.

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.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY: PEARLS OF WISDOM OM MY GAY DADS

For much of his life, he even showed that he uld be gay and be a rd-rryg my father found his footg, he troduced me to parts of his new world. After my long days at the library, he’d take me out to some of his favore gay bars, notably a pair of piano bars Greenwich Village.

After the ceremony at New York’s Cy Hall, our four children joed a celebratory meal for children have always been very acceptg of my dad beg gay and never saw as particularly noteworthy — was simply a fact of summer morng, my 9-year-old son announced he wanted to make a rabow flag for Opa.

When I was growg up, nobody was supposed to be gay.