Molly Shannon may be best known as a hilarious actress whose career launched with a spot on SNL. These days, Shannon’s acting career has been influenced by something quite beautiful — her dad. At a Q & A session about Miles, “a movie about a gay teen’s fight to bridge the gender divide in a […]
A Gay Dad Shares His Experience With a Harrowing Accusation by United Airlines
On May 19, Henry Amador-Batten was returning from Puerto Rico with his son on a United Airlines flight after visiting his ill father. After de-boarding the plane, Amador-Batten was then detained for an hour and questioned by police officers after a United Airline’s flight attendant accused him of having his hand and arm “too close to […]
A Gay Dad’s Lesson About Discrimination
A Gay Dad Examines The Circle Of Life
By Henry Amador-Batten There has been much talk recently about “safe places,” especially after the massacre in Orlando. I touched on this topic in a newspaper column I write and the responses I received only served to feed my desire to dive in even deeper. Some people just do not understand how a night club […]
Gay Dads Share How They Celebrate Mothers
By Henry Amador-Batten Mother’s Day is here again and in thousands and thousands of gay dad households around the country you will find families navigating the idea of “what does this day mean” in their own unique and special ways. In a 2015 cnsnews.com article by David Crary, he quotes Gary Gates, an expert on […]
A Gay Dad’s Adoption Journey: And Then There Were Four
By: Henry Amador-Batten As I write on this beautiful crisp and sunny March morning, there are two things that I am immediately grateful for, first is the Sun beating on my face though the sitting room window, it’s long overdue and oh so needed and secondly are the sounds of my husband working in the […]
Could this Gay Dad’s Adoption Search Be Nearing It’s End?
By Henry Amador-Batten I was browsing through the list of children waiting for families on our local agencies adoption site when I happened across his profile. He was five nearly turning six and there was something in his eyes that spoke to me. I can’t tell you what the connection was but it was there […]
A Gay Dad’s Grown Up Christmas List
A Gay Dad and Writer Gives Thanks
By Henry Amador-Batten This is the time of year that writers and bloggers generally love. It’s a joyful and special time that is full of wonder and memories and traditions. It makes for especially warm and receptive articles that touch our readers in those warm and fuzzy holiday ways. It’s also when we get to […]
A Gay Dad Celebrates All His Adopted Son’s Mothers
By Henry Amador-Batten November is National Adoption Month and each year during that month, I as well as countless other adoptive families share their story. We share them to raise awareness for all the thousands of children still without homes of their own lingering in the Foster Care system. We share them to add […]
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