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Contents:
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
- MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
- THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
- TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
- GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
- 'DON'T SNEAK': DAD'S UNEXPECTED ADVICE TO HIS GAY SON IN THE '50S
- THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
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Heynen planned to photograph for a book of photography featurg gay fathers and their children.
DAD AND DAD: A JOURNEY TO GAY FATHERHOOD – PICTUR
Photographer Bart Heynen set out across the untry to make a visual archive of gay fatherhood "Dads." * gay son dad *
”Amerin culture has not been particularly starved of imag of gay fatherhood, particularly recent years. Celebri like Anrson Cooper have helped normalize the ia of gay men raisg children, and no longer feels revelatory to see them on televisn, as did when “Morn Fay” premiered mon, Mr.
Heynen said, are imag of gay fathers who aren’t Instagram ready — like two men bg their dghters’ hair or tossg a football the ont yard.
It’s an unrstandable impulse, which he attribut to a sire among gay parents to feel “normal” after havg their pabili as parents ntually lled to qutn.
MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
"Joe Bell" is a new movie that tells the heartbreakg te story of Jad Bell, a gay teen who died by suici, and his father's walk his memory. * gay son dad *
Heynen said, but rather a celebratn of the day-to-day liv of gay Jt for the YoungCly Rose, 61, and Ryan, 12Cly Rose, who liv Manhattan, was first photographed for “Dads” three years ago after meetg Mr.
Heynen at an event at the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center New York Cy.
Heynen “a lot of cred” for cludg a father like him — a sgle dad his 60s — sce he said there is often a lack of reprentatn of olr gay people art and media, which tends to foc on young, f men.
THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
Growg up wh a gay father created challeng for both my Dad & I. His journey out of the Bible Belt & closet was not easy. Most importantly though . . . * gay son dad *
As a Black, gay man raisg a son on his own, Mr.
TOUCHG VIO SHOWS SON E OUT AS GAY TO MORMON DAD
Patrick Haggerty didn't know he was gay, but spects that his father did when he told him not to hi his inty. Haggerty was 15, and his dad told him to be proud of himself. * gay son 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. 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.
GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON
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. “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.
'DON'T SNEAK': DAD'S UNEXPECTED ADVICE TO HIS GAY SON IN THE '50S
“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.
THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
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.