Father Figure
One gay priest won the love and loyalty of New York City's fire department and, in the tragedy of September 11, became an icon.
August 27, 2008
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Happy Father's Gay
Academy Award-winner Christopher Plummer plays a newly out gay dad in Beginners, but after a lifetime of gay peers and gay parties, the Sound of Music star doesn't give a damn about sexuality.
June 17, 2011
A Father s Day tale
For years Cincinnati was the one place in the USA where a law expressly prohibited fair employment protection for gays and lesbians. Here's how one straight dad helped change that.
June 16, 2005
The sins of the fathers
Cardinal Ouellet doesn't believe in punishing children for their parents' sins--that is, unless their parents' sin is homosexuality
July 27, 2005
Father Knows Best
In 1978, Jim Ward opened what is considered to have been the nation's first contemporary body-piercing business -- the Gauntlet in Los Angeles. His best customer was the late Louis Rove, the gay adoptive father of former Bush "architect" Karl Rove.
September 21, 2007
Andy Cohen Is Going to Be a Father
The gay Bravo personality is expecting his first child via surrogacy.
December 21, 2018
Like father, like son
Between tears and fear, my teenage son worked up enough courage to come out to me, his father. Yet I had my own secret about my sexuality.
November 29, 2004
The Fathers We Lost at Pulse
Father's Day is this weekend, and two families are mourning the loss of these dads.
June 19, 2016
Faith of his father
After rural gay activist Nathan Christoffersen's sudden death, a fundamentalist funeral erased his sexuality. But his passing is having an unexpected effect: bridging the gap between gay and antigay--beginning with Nathan's own father. Part 1 of a two-part special report on religion and homophobia
February 27, 2006
A Message for Fathers of LGBTQ Kids
Susan Cottrell of the organization Freed Hearts has a message for this unsung group.
August 10, 2018
My Father's Day Nightmare
Parenting writer Frank Lowe opens up for the first time about his first Father's Day, which was more painful than happy.
June 12, 2014
Like Father, Like Son
Retired Coast Guard officer Bill Shipley served and lived for decades in the closet before coming out--then he found out his son was gay.
June 15, 2007
15 Gay Founding Fathers and Mothers
Queer people and their allies have always been part of the tapesty of the United States. Here are those who made the first few stitches.
February 2, 2018