Best wishes today to all who identify as fathers, have or had fathers, or use Father’s Day to celebrate any parent, donor, or other important person in your family! Here’s a roundup of some dad stories for your special day.
- “A Daughter’s Beautiful Father’s Day Tribute To Her Adoptive Dads” at HuffPo is indeed that. The dads adopted her in 1995, when they lived in northwest Indiana “and only one of the 37 agencies in the Chicago area was willing to work with gay and lesbian parents.”
- Brent Almond, aka Designer Daddy, was interviewed recently by Illustrated Impact about his family, his blog, being a gay dad, and more.
- New dads Jean Pierre and Tom explain at Gays With Kids how their surrogate, Ann, and her two sons have become a part of their family.
- Lieutenant (junior grade) Joey Seymour (USNR) shares “Serving for my Son: A Sailor’s Father’s Day Story” at the American Military Partner Association.
- “We Asked Gay Dads (And Their Kids) What They’re Thankful For This Father’s Day,” says BuzzFeed. Go read their answers.
- The San Francisco Chronicle’s Carolyne Zinko looks at four families with gay dads, including one with a single gay dad, in “Rad dads: Four families’ paths to parenthood.”
- Gay Star News gives us “14 adorable photos of gay, bi and trans dads and their families for Father’s Day.”
- Actor Molly Shannon talks about her dad, who came out to her as gay when he was 72.
- Marina Gomberg of The Salt Lake Tribune offers “The definitive guide to talking to lesbian moms about Father’s Day,” which is really pretty clever.
- Finally, I absolutely love this multi-generational story by Laura Hall about a queer great-grandfather and his queer great-granddaughter.