44 Famo Gay Dads for Father's Day

Contents:

• MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
• STORMY DANIELS THANKS ‘WONRFUL GAY DADS’ AS WT HOLLYWOOD HANDS HER KEYS TO CY
• STORMY DANIELS THANKS ‘WONRFUL GAY DADS’ AS WT HOLLYWOOD HANDS HER KEYS TO CY
• JT HOW GAY IS WT HOLLYWOOD?
• PEREZ HILTON, BUNIM/MURRAY DEVELOPG ‘GAY DADS’ DOCERI (EXCLIVE)
• THE 10 BEST WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WT HOLLYWOOD

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. “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.

STORMY DANIELS THANKS ‘WONRFUL GAY DADS’ AS WT HOLLYWOOD HANDS HER KEYS TO CY

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. 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.

Hosted by Wt Hollywood uple Yan and Alex, the dads e each episo to chat parentg and relatnships, and lately have been focg each episo on the gay rights and fatherhood pathways by untry, and vg a gay father om each lotn on as a gut.

This YA g-of-age novel follows high schooler Sal, who was adopted to a lovg Mexin Amerin fay by his gay father, when he begs to qutn his inty and place the world durg his senr year. This one-hour documentary followed the fay liv of four gay fai and the legal and cultural hurdl the men faced to bee fathers.

STORMY DANIELS THANKS ‘WONRFUL GAY DADS’ AS WT HOLLYWOOD HANDS HER KEYS TO CY

The director and producer is Johnny Symons, himself a gay father of an adopted son wh his partner the Bay Area. Savage beme an ternatnally regnized sex lumnist and activist the 1990s and ’00s for his ank cultural sight to gay relatnships and inty. The year is 1981, and if you were a homosexual man (mostly whe) lookg for some fun the unrporated part of Los Angel County unofficially known as Wt Hollywood, then you had plenty to choose om a long list of nightlife gay bars, diss, rtrants, bathho and gay-owned bs terg to the gay-gay-gay!

The image you see above, shared by WeHo history buff Mark Donnell, shows a double spread ad taken om a Data Boy Magaze 1981, which was one of the gay rags that uld be found lol WeHo bs stacked next to an issue of Frontiers Magaze. Mother Lo was upgrad and looks very different than s origal 80s versn, but for the most part has managed to stay Mother were the gay-owned clothg stor, rtrants and retail spac:The Sports Locker was suated at 8853 Santa Moni Boulevard. That retail space is the current home to Block Party WeHo, known for phg overly priced slut gear and tacky rabow gay apparel unr the guise that is the biggt gay store the world.

It was a gay entertament magaze lnched 1968 by Data-Boy Instant Prs, an early puterized prtg service owned by Sl “Fat Shirley” Suon. Jimmy's Backyard, a short-lived speakeasy tucked away on Cosmo Street Hollywood, opened 1929 and was one of LA's first openly gay bars.

JT HOW GAY IS WT HOLLYWOOD?

Durg the Prohibn era, speakeasi beme a popular avenue for gay-d the “Pansy Craze” between the late 1920s and early 1930s, drag shows (before they had that name) were gag unrground populary. Jimmy’s Backyard, one of Hollywood’s first openly gay bars that opened on New Year’s Eve 1929, along wh B. Harassment durg the Deprsn and beyondIt wasn’t jt booze that uld get you arrted durg prohibn — gay spac were also illegal.

“The LAPD was jt mercils their raids of gay bars, ” acrdg to Lillian Farman, LGBTQ historian and a -thor of the book “Gay L. Government officials began to view the populary of “impersonator” (drag) revu — and by extensn the visibly gay muny — as part of what plunged the cy to bad enomic tim, acrdg to historil someone was nvicted of “masqueradg” (drsg drag), they uld be charged a fe or required to serve a 10-day jail stt 1930.

“So, I thk that was why Wt Hollywood beme ‘the gay spot’ … was an pe om the real vicns of the LAPD. Lbians and gay men flocked there to fd nnectn, live more openly and be the film the silent film era, one of s hight paid actrs, Alla Nazimova, beme a bisexual in by turng a hotel to a sapphic hub. As the years went on, so many gay-iendly plac me on the scene that you uld lerally fill a book.

PEREZ HILTON, BUNIM/MURRAY DEVELOPG ‘GAY DADS’ DOCERI (EXCLIVE)

His younger years and owned several gay bars, created yearly addrs books (now known as gay guis) to talog them all — cludg Wt Hollywood.

THE 10 BEST WT HOLLYWOOD GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WT HOLLYWOOD

Known then as Gay Pri Para, marchers on June 28 walked solidary wh simultaneo march other ci to mark the Stonewall Uprisg of 1969. The LAPD chief didn’t hate to remd people that beg gay was still illegal, and the police missn piled on extra perm sts to the pot where the para almost didn’t missn thought the march would bee vlent, so they ially required bonds totalg $1. The upsle clothg spot, which opened around the early 1960s, largely fed popular gay men’s fashn, wh see-through mh outfs and tight shirts.

Stud One, a gay dis which opened the 70s, was also a draw for wealthy whe gay men to dance and meet.