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Having the same first name as each other almost stopped Jonathan Boudier from agreeing to a first...
Oren Henry and David Rak first met in 2005 at a party at David's house in Washington D.C., where...
For Patrick Foley, Washington D.C.'s 2009 Pride march was a life-changing event.
When Doug Raguso and Tom Hove met online in 2012, Tom was serving in the military, and Doug had...
For Fred and Adam, becoming a father was something the two knew they always wanted. It’s no myth...
Thirteen years ago, Myke Yest and Harold Daigle – who live in New Orleans, Louisiana, with their...
Until 2018, Cameron Williams was living the single life, working as an actor in Los Angeles,...
When Daniel and Spencer Conklin started their journey to parenthood, it was about a year before...
Robbie likes to joke that he and his husband, Mackenzy, met eight years ago the old fashioned way;...
Guest post authored by Aubrey Hawton
Steven and James were neighbors before they were husbands. After passing each other many times,...
Parisian dads Manel and Thomas have been together for 20 years. They became dads through surrogacy...
Despite living at opposite ends of North America, Alonso and Javier started dating after they were...
A sobering reality of queer parenthood is the substantial cost barrier. A surrogacy journey is a...
Craig and Joel Diaz, of Columbus, Ohio, bonded early on in their courtship over their shared desire...
Somewhere a cartoon bird breaks into a cheerful chirping sonnet, a mouse mends a dress, and two...
Mitsuo and Rickard met on an online dating site, way before the popular ones you see today....
Sam and Rob, who live in Melbourne Australia, both grew up knowing they wanted to become dads one...
Richard and Ronnie Shawyer-Clarke, who live together in Felden, England, have been together for 12...
We don't need to tell anyone reading this what a crappy year 2020 has been — but it hasn't been all...
Matt Nguyen, a game designer, and Christopher Chansler, a stay-at-home dad, have been together for...
Trans dad Kayden Coleman, 34, didn't start daydreaming about fatherhood until after he realized he...
Rico and Vernon have a non-traditional relationship when it comes to fathering their two daughters....
Tom and Ward’s journey to fatherhood included many lessons — about stress, gratitude and fatherhood...
The last time we left off with Charlie and Mike, they'd taken the first steps and chosen Choice...
Before becoming the dads they are today, Daniel and Dennis’ biggest doubt on the path to fatherhood...
Happy couple, Tim and Josh, have always known they wanted to be dads but weren't sure it would ever...
Blogger Damian and his partner Andrew decided early on in their family planning journey that...
Guest post written by Michael and Tawyne, hosts of A Gay Man's Wife
When we asked 30-year-old Nick from Fort Worth, Texas, about his path to fatherhood, he told us it...
Guest post written by Christopher & Jonathan Arteza-Acosta When my husband and I started dating in...
Coming out in your 30s is difficult. But coming out while blending a family, parenting two kids,...
Over the year, we brought you stories of hundreds of gay men and their paths to parenthood. Some...
Kyle Ashworth has four kids from a previous straight relationship. After ten years of marriage, he...
Charlie Roberson doesn't have any regrets. Despite knowing he was attracted to men, Charlie married...
When Rafal first met Jami, during a chance encounter in Naples, Florida, he was still very much in...
Raising a gay stepfamily comes with its own obstacles. You're juggling a partner, children, an ex...
When Brock and Kyle met, they were leading two very different lives. Brock was a dad of two and had...
This is the second of a monthly collaboration between Gays With Kids and Two Men and A Baby.
It was a chilly autumn Saturday a few days ago. I took my son, Felix, to meet a friend of mine,...
Many stories of gay men creating their families follow a predictable path: two men fall in love,...
There are nearly 20,000 children in the Arizona foster care system, yet many state agencies...
Jonny was 19 and Pete 20 when the two met online in 2006. They went on their first date on...
In August 2000, Steven and Michael were both looking online for a long-term relationship when their...
Many of us gay men became dads somewhat later in life. When we were younger perhaps our priorities...
Our final video in our series of speaking with April Dinwoodie.
Joshua Perez, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, has had a rollercoaster ride in and out of the closet.
Husbands John and Nathan Serran, both still in their 20s, live with their two beautiful daughters...
In 2002, when they were each just 25 years old, Kevin and Jeff met at a local gay bar in...
It’s a parenting story you’ve heard many times before: A couple meets and decides to start a...
A same-sex couple from South Africa have become the world’s first couple to have triplets,...
For Richard Tomlinson, family is about choices. Seventeen years ago, Richard and his husband-to-be...
After finishing school in Europe, Paul Petit, now 48, moved to the U.S.A. upon accepting a job...
With one story a week, Huffington Post Queer Voices has been publishing a great number (we counted...
Huge congratulations to our latest roundup of gay dads celebrating momentous occasions!
A little over a week ago, The New York Times wrote about the nuptials of Dr. Cooper Boone and Mark...
Back in 1990, Matt was 22 years old and working at a small gay nightclub a friend owned in Seattle....
Gay dads John and Nathan of Ontario, Canada, enjoy family time during the weekends. Recently, we...
Meet Michael, 42, and Floyd, 39, with their 10-month-old twins Lauren and Nathan. These two new...
Byron and Anthony, who have been together for six years, met through mutual friends at a family...
They had met once before, Aaron and Josh, and while they were certainly intrigued with one another,...
In 1966, Rick Rambo was born to a couple who weren't ready or able to raise a kid; he was given up...
In 1993 Brian, then 28, and Ferd, 33, were both living in Boston. Ferd had arrived from the...
This week's #GWKThenAndNow gay dads have been together for almost 25 years!
We first profiled the Trumble-Stazzone family in December 2014 when they had just marked a year as...
Coming out as gay, Nathan Toovey simply accepted he would not have children. He's now one of not...
When Gays With Kids shared Jared and Dorian’s first family photo on Instagram on November 23, 2015,...
Travis Mayfield is a celebrity in Seattle, cohosting morning news shows on all the latest trends....
Jorge is a gay dad living in the Dominican Republic with his adorable daughter. Recently he...
U.K. celebrity Ian "H" Watkins, from '90s pop group Steps, is a dad! He and his partner, Craig...
Meet Chris and Eugene with their son Bridger from Salt Lake City, Utah.
Richard, 40, has one son, Jonathan, who was adopted in 2003, at the age of 5. Richard and...
Matt and Billy have been together since October 22, 2005. Billy never felt a desire to be a dad,...
Most fathers have to wait years before hearing their children say, “I love you." Bryon Denton,...
Gay dads Petey and Tony share their favorite photos from their recent family vacation for this...
Cohen and Murray became dads via surrogacy when they were 25 and 28 years old, respectively. Both...
One marriage, two sons and more than three decades passed before Ken Brewer came out as gay. When...
Joe, a professional artist and art teacher, met David, an administrator at New York University, at...
First, their birth photo went viral as a positive symbol of gay parenthood. Now, it's making the...
In this week's #GayDadWednesday, gay dads Johnny, 36, and Henry, 28, introduce us to their family...
You may remember Ken and Scott: They produced a short video for Gays With Kids in September 2015...
A series of huge portraits of the kids hangs on the outer walls of a shipping container right...
The collection of gay dad family photos on our Instagram page is growing daily. We've noticed that...
Ryan, 36, and Marcin, 34, live in Houston, Texas and have been together for five years. They were...
Alexander and Curtis Fischer-Oelschlaeger live in Rock Island, Illinois and they have been together...
Gays With Kids would like to congratulate new gay dads Cédric, 38, and Ricky, 33, on the birth of...
Michael, 43, and Wade, 26, live in Indianapolis, Indiana with their son Maxwell and their three...
Brian and Ferd, co-founders of Gays With Kids, share what a typical weekday morning looks like for...
We’d like you to meet this Californian family of three: Michael, Rudy and Shi’a! Michael and Rudy...
When Evan McCormick forgot his son's lunch at home, he went back for it after dropping him off.
Dad Robert and Daddy Chris live in Springfield, Oregon, with their three adopted sons, Justin, 11,...
Raynard (Daddy) and Andrew (Papa) met on a cruise ship in the Bahamas, and have been together for...
Meet London-based gay dads Joe and Francois with their twins Daphné and Axel. Francois was born in...
Wonderful moments of gay dad families enjoying the snow.
As we all know, or maybe not, being gay parents is absolutely everything like being...
This week's #GWKThenAndNow features gay dads Garrett and Casey with their two sons, CJ and Patrick....
Meet Octavius, Seth and their son Julian of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The dads met through an...
Clint and Jacob met through friends the summer of 2011 during a drought in Texas. They hit it off...
It may be hard to believe, but it’s time to start making plans for how your children will spend...
Janderson and Pedro met the old-fashioned way, in a bar 15 years ago. They always wanted kids and...
Dennis and Jody met in 2002 through friends at a party in San Diego, California. At first, as the...
Alfredo and Mitchell met in 2011 through friends and at first became just friends, but soon the...
Emiliano and Robert met through mutual friends and are the proud gay dads of their adopted daughter...
José Rolón didn’t know where life would take him after husband Tim Merrell unexpectedly died. But...
Get ready to meet Anthony Henderson, Jason Strong and their son Marcelino Henderson-Strong! Anthony...
This week’s #GWKThenAndNow is a Gays With Kids first: Today we follow the journey of single gay dad...
Burke Burnett and Justin Carrier were returning from their honeymoon when they first learned they...
Scott and Chad have been together for 20 years. They met one summer singing and dancing and were...
Eli and Ido have been together for 12 years and married for eight. Both dads are from Israel and...
Priceless moments of gay dads with their kids! Short, home-made videos from some of our favorite...
For our new “Meet Gay Dads” series, we asked dads to take a short survey to answer a few basic...
Dell and Robert’s story is a modern fairy tale. They met online through the once popular AOL chat...
D (short for Demitri) and Luis met on Date.com and have been together for 12 years. Together...
A gay man in China has filed the country's first lawsuit pertaining to same-sex marriage. But...
A sampling of some of our favorite #GWKThenandNow photo series, showing gay dads as they've grown...
Tommy Heidenreich had given up on his dreams of becoming a father. At one point in his thirties he...
For years I covered celebrity news for Us Weekly. Many people thought it was a glamorous job, but...
Patricio, 31, is from Otisfield, Maine; Mirco, 48, is from Ferrara, Italy. They have been together...
Meet Daddy Jason and Papa Manuel with their two kids Mason and Miranda. Jason and Manuel are...
Check out our 10 most popular and engaging Instagram photos of the past year! Thanks to everyone...
D.C. couple Darin and Carl met on Match.com in December 2005. Their first real date was on March 4,...
Drew lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, with his two children from a previous straight relationship,...
Martin Gill wants prospective parents to know about the sheer volume of dishes.
Last week the Mexican state of Tabasco outlawed surrogacy for foreign and gay clients, limiting...
Back in 2006 Benjamin and Nick met online through Myspace. Benjamin was 18 and Nick was 19, and...
This week is a Gays With Kids first as we publish our first bilingual #GayDadWednesday! Erminio and...
Gay dads BJ & Frankie are excited to share their Catholic and Jewish holiday traditions with their...
The IRS rejected Joe Morrissey’s claim to deduct $36,538 in medical expenses — the amount he spent...
Jaysen and Chad met in 2003 on an Internet dating site. They both knew from the very beginning that...
For this week's #GayDadWednesday we're traveling to the beautiful French city of Nantes, to see...
Twenty-year-old Brian Mariano finds the normal life overrated as he explores gay fatherhood with...
Joshua and Josh have been together for 12 years, and are Dada and Dad to twins who were born via...
For Christopher and Richard, it was love at first sight. The two met in Chicago in 2003, and within...
Sandy Kaiser and his husband Darrin Carter had one rule when they set out to build a family: They...
Needless to say, life would be awfully boring if you knew what was going to happen all the time.
Icelandic gay dads Sæþór (SIGHthor) and Ágúst with their adorable 1-year-old son, Daníel Valur, are...
This week's #GayDadWednesday family is Ferd and Brian with their three kids. It's two days before...
Israeli gay couple Tal and Amir were at a hotel in Nepal when an earthquake devastated the country...
They’re raising several kids, solo. And whatever the stress, they wouldn’t have it any other way.
Rob and Monty knew they were meant to make a positive impact on the lives of others. And in March...
The Best of Our Gay Dad Weddings Video & Pictures. Gays With Kids is proud to boast the world's...
Meet this young Puerto Rican family and their gorgeous daughter Sofia who is 8-months-old....
This week's #GWKThenAndNow is Bill, one of our first gay dad bloggers, and his husband J.R. The two...
What happens after #lovewins, after Happily Ever After, when men who have braced themselves to be...
The Kimbrell Family lives in Conway, Arkansas, and they just celebrated the fourth anniversary as a...
Todd Riddle and Steven Lebow are living an incredible life with their 4-year-old son Fenmore. The...
Kenn Murphy is pretty much your typical gay dad, in a world where “typical gay dad" can now be used...
Ewerton Brito, 43, and Jonathan Dantas, 32, are dads to 5-year-old Matheus in Natal, Brazil. In...
Mike and Rey met on February 4, 1991, when Rey was back visiting his hometown of Monterey,...
Joël, Sean and their two gorgeous kids Jonathan and Janette are this week’s #GayDadWednesday family!
American Girl dolls have, for decades, been young girls' most fiercely coveted toy, its catalogue...
Meet gay dads Russ and Mark and their two teenage kids. Russ and Mark met in 2009 and married three...
One Million Moms is “extremely disappointed” in the beloved Mattel-owned American Girls and their...
Meet his week's #GWKThenAndNow family: Kevin, Antonio, Maysson, and twins, Jasper and Kay-Cee....
This weeks #GayDadWednesday family are bloggers 2TravelDads Rob and Chris along with their two...
For Donovan Gutierrez and his fiancé Eric Alvarado being parents is an important and sometimes...
This week’s #GayDadWednesday is London-based family Papa Steve, Dad Cristian (who’s from Italy) and...
In a world where expectations too often dictate actions, it shouldn’t surprise us that Jacob found...
Chad Billmyer, 36, is the founder and CEO of Panjo, a marketplace for rare and high-quality items....
This week's #GWKThenAndNow is Darrin and Sandy with their five beautiful kids: Wolfgang, Michaela,...
Bill Houghton met José Gomez in a Dallas, Texas bar 18 years ago. He was passing through on...
This week’s #GayDadWednesday follows a Californian family on a typical Sunday: Meet gay dad Chris,...
“Looking back, I don’t know what life was like before Alex.”
Meet gay dad Sydney and his son Kiaani, 16, who live in Whangarei, New Zealand. Sydney is Kiaani’s...
Several months back, I was hours deep into a particularly painful bout of Internet procrastination...
Meet other gay dad families across North America as they enjoy the changing...
Ed and Norman have been together since 1982 making that an impressive total of 33 years! They began...
Meet this week’s #GayDadWednesday family: Daddy Casey, Daddy Andy and their two kids. This gorgeous...
Meet this beautiful family of three: Kyle, Pennington and Cayden. Kyle and Pennington have been...
Sam and Jeff always wanted to be parents, and they knew that foster-adopt was right for them. They...
Let’s Be Frank: The Diary of a Divorced Gay Dad
Meet this week's #GayDadWednesday family: Dada David, Papa Alex and their son Maxwell from Los...
Meet Emmanuel Sanchez from Los Angeles. He is the proud dad of a 4-year-old, whom he co-parents...
This week's #GWKThenAndNow family are gay dads Jordan and Freddie with their son Joshua. Jordan met...
This week's #GWKThenAndNow are John D. Lam and John G.F. Ruggieri. Follow their journey from when...
This week's #GayDadWednesday family are Matt and Ryan, along with their two beautiful twins. They...
Reid Duggan-Tierney is an Instagram celebrity with an iconic look: Bow tie, stylish shades, coiffed...
A typical Sunday in the life of NYC-area gay dads Corey and Rocco and their son Forge starts with...
During our early pregnancy, without meaning to, I frequently referred to our growing fetus as a...
I visited with Frank at his home to talk about his divorce, and he shared why he recorded a video...
Grayson was born in the middle of May 2010. Two days later, Marty Forth and Patrick Sinclair went...
Scott and Ken are first-time gay dads to a newborn daughter. In this video they talk honestly about...
David and Jason Bragg-Sutton are a different kind of gay dads. Living north of Tulsa, Okla., in...
Biological Dads
Part II of "Incredible: The 15 Children of the Ham Family." Read part I here.
When they learned they would finally be adopting a newborn, Nathan and Daniel did what any...
Part II in our series of gay dads serving at the center of marriage equality lawsuits
Wow, what an exciting couple of weeks for the LGBT community, right? First, President Obama issued...
Building a business from scratch poses incredible challenges. So, for that matter, does becoming a...
David Byrns always tried hard not to be who he was. Painfully aware of taunts of “hick” and...
Brent Cheatham (photo above, left) answers the phone late in the evening on his way home from...
Amir and Alon Michaeli Molian thought they knew the international surrogacy process inside and out....
Wayne Franklin is a gay dad. He’s also a widower, a cancer survivor and a pediatric...
How Two Dads Almost Fell Into The L.A. Parent Trap
Everybody’s up at 5:30 am in Ed Peddell’s home. Soon after, breakfast is served and the older kids...
Over the past week I’ve been told that my children are synthetic and my marriage is a plastic...
Fashion designer Domenico Dolce proved his good taste stops at the edge of the runway when he told...
It’s a scene that has played out so many times, it’s practically cliché: the surprise reunion of...
The Backstory of A Song for Lost Angels
It took Donnie until after the birth of his second child to come to terms with being gay. The...
This is the 17th (and final) article in Jason P’s series about Foster-Adopt. To read the first in...
So Cheesy
Rick Nadan went into the surrogacy process much like the average hopeful parent: financially...
For many a gay man, coming out complicates the relationship with his parents. It can cause a few...
Taking a few minutes at the start of Cyndi Lauper’s fundraiser for her True Colors Fund, supporting...
As a professional jazz pianist, Tim Clausen knows a lot about making beautiful music on his own....
On October 24, Gays With Kids star blogger David Blacker published "Once Upon a Time ... A 'How...
Jesse is a gay dad. He's also a son. And like most sons, he wanted to make his father proud — even...
After an amazing response to our "Who Needs a Vacation?" contest, I am very excited to announce the...
Escaping the City
For Brian Berry-Berlinski and his husband, Michael, life changed almost instantly. The couple, one...
Decades-spanning couples reflect on how building a family made their own relationship stronger.
Clint McCormack recalls a time when he and his partner Bryan Reamer did whatever they wanted,...
Starting a family is a major move and it requires a lot of courage. It can require even more when...
Our plans don’t always work out. If we’re lucky, they turn into something even better.
Sometimes all you have to do is look around your liberal neighborhood to realize how much progress...
The day that Steve Greenberg and Steven Goldstein officially decided to pursue parenthood, they...
Taking the time to share a smile and laugh with his son. Jim knows that life doesn’t get any better...
For decades, gay men who split pretty much just split. There weren’t all those legal hassles to...
Get an inside glimpse into the home of a newborn: meet Paul, Ewan and their infant daughter...
Gay dad Rob Watson on his message to the parents of an assaulted Georgia teen.
Christopher Thangaraj, "Friday Night Lights." Our gay dad blogger Christopher Thangaraj is worried...
Single or not, Larry Jurrist knew he wanted to be a father. The polyglot, teacher and theater-type...
Love Sees No Limits: Adopting a Young Adult
A gay couple in Vancouver, Canada were rejected as adoptive parents by an abandoned baby’s...
It was the baby photo seen round the world.
A story about a little boy’s challenges, a grown man’s grief, and the infinite healing power of...
AT A GLANCE
We love this Hotwire commercial starring one of our own gay dad bloggers, David Blacker, and his...
For its article “Old Dads,” the National Post interviewed several men who had become fathers at an...
This afternoon GMA 7, a TV station in the Philippines, will broadcast the first episode of a TV...
On June 12, the "Today Show" aired a segment “Stay-at-Home Dads Open Up,” in which four different...
With “Coming Clean: Confessions of an HIV+ Dad,” Jim Lunsford explores his life and his HIV status,...
On Sunday, the Israeli cabinet of Benjamin Netanyahu approved a bill allowing surrogacy for singles...
Perhaps it’s not happening as often as it used to, but it still happens: a guy marrying a woman,...
Now that the first generation of the “gayby boom” is entering adulthood, we can begin to gain...
There have been accusations that gay parents having children is some horrible social experiment, or...
Earlier today, gay dads Jared Mullen and Ryan Tunstall, along with their adopted daughter Isabella,...
On Wednesday, April 9, Prince George, the son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William...
We were posed the question: “Do you have any advice that you would like to pass on to people who...
Victor Fraley Self (V) is a fitness instructor and trainer, Chris Fraley Self (C) is the founder of...
Gays with kids. A mere 20 to 30 years ago, the concept was an oxymoron. Fifteen years ago, we were...
John (40) is a fundraiser, Rodney (41) a registered massage therapist. They live in Toronto,...
