If you’re a fan of the award-winning Amazon Prime show, “Mozart in the Jungle,” you may be familiar with openly gay actor Sandro Isaack who plays Pavel, the Slavik stagehand and lover of Bernadette Peters. However, beyond acting, Isaack is doing some amazing things in the background for LGBT families. For one, he published a […]
By Henry Amador-Batten Many moons ago I caught myself in a moment that felt oddly as natural as it did surreal. I was writing baby shower invitations to celebrate the upcoming birth of my Godson. What should have easily been one of my life’s most joyous moments was casually diluted by the fact that […]
For LGBT families, it’s often hard to find family representation in films, books, TV shows, and, yes, music. That’s why Manuel and Bud Santos created nursery rhymes for their kids that represented their LGBT family, and then decided to professionally produce the songs to share with others. The songs feature gay-dads, single-dad, and two-mom families. […]
In a new video on the Youtube Channel of Men Having Babies (an organization that helps gay men to have children through surrogacy), we see a great panel of teens who have gay dads and were born through surrogacy. In the video, the teens discuss how they explain their families to others and how that […]
The Next Family: How did you start your family? Jeremy and Matt: We had been talking about how to start a family for a while, and we had seen an ad in the Dallas Voice (our local LGBT weekly) about an agency that focused on LGBT adoption. One July morning Matt woke up, thought “Today […]
Cheyenne Jackson, recognized for his roles in American Horror Story, 30 Rock, and Glee, just became a dad with his husband Justin Landau. Over the weekend, the couple had twins and then shared their happy news with their fans on Instagram this week. The dads then shared individual pictures of their children. Here’s daughter Willow. […]
Gay dads Justin Ruehs and Adam Smeets of Chicago became fathers for the first time this summer — to triplets, no less! The two fathers chose surrogacy to create their family and in a stunning twist of fate, they both became biological fathers. Embryos with DNA from both dads were implanted into the surrogate and […]
By Mikayla Denault As a daughter of two incredibly loving mothers, I am frequently confronted with questions about my family. I am always absolutely delighted when my peers bring up the topic because these discussions create one astounding virtue that society needs. This virtue is awareness. Awareness spreads information like wildfire and ignites conversations on […]
Matt Dallas (actor from Kyle XY) married his now-husband, Blue Hamilton, last year. Soon after, they adopted a son, Crow, and are now documenting their (adorable and handsome) lives on YouTube. Better yet, they just released an amazing video, “Things That Husbands Do,” that all too perfectly displays what many two-dad families experience. It’s things […]
Raising a child is hard work — as anyone knows, but raising a daughter as gay dads 20+ years ago — almost unheard of. The Next Family’s Brandy Black had Kevin Montgomery-Duban, the author of The Family Next Door, speak about what it was like for he and his husband to raise his daughter. Brandy […]
