Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads."
Contents:
- JOHNNY & SEBASTIAN, NEW YORK | INSPIRG GAY DADS
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
- THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
JOHNNY & SEBASTIAN, NEW YORK | INSPIRG GAY DADS
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The Journey to Fatherhood for One Inspirg Gay Couple / Johnny and Sebastian, New York. “All those years of stgglg wh parents who would not accept a gay son really helped fe and motivate my own sire to be a parent, ” says Johnny. They didn’t want a child to be brought to the world whout a mother and felt unfortable wh the ia of gay men beg the sole retakers of their grandchild.
What advice would you give to other upl or gay men lookg to start a fay?
MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
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.
THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
“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.
“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. Abplanalp never knew when he was younger that fatherhood would be possible for him as gay man.