While it’s become commonplace for gay couples to adopt children, single gay men are often the last on the list of preferred parents. Others use their disposable income to pay surrogates, or, as one gay man describes them to his son, “the nice lady who carried you.” And even professional gay uncles have some learning to do when they get their new child home.
Gene Flanders, a graphic artist in Worcester, Mass., whose 8-year-old son was born through surrogacy, said he’s often made to feel “like you big dope.” At a restaurant, he let his then-baby boy taste a dab of butter on his finger, and “one woman almost reached up to stop me — little slights like that.”
We have no idea what the significance of that example is, because we’re too busy in the steam room to shop for diapers, but we’re all for bitch fights between homosexuals and nosy women who don’t like butter. We do know, however, that if butch gentlemen like Ricky Martin, Clay Aiken and Michael Jackson can do it, we’re throwing out that passé chihuahua and getting ourselves a Maddox.
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