Tag: gay parents

McCain Oven Chips has hit back at homophobic haters after featuring a gay couple in their ad. Two gay dads have faced a torrent of online abuse after they appeared on an advert with their baby. Lee and Mat Samuels-Camozzi were subject to a number of horrific slurs on social media after appearing in the McCain chips advert with their young son Carter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ9fjN1az9g People compared the two to paedophiles, labelled them as sick and accused them of neglecting their 19-month-old son Carter...

There are few greater gifts someone can give another human being than the gift of life. One woman did just that for two gay dads-to-be on the opposite side of the world. Angie from Ontario, Canada met French couple Sam and John through Canadian Fertility Consulting, Metro reports. You may ask why the men decided to have a baby with a surrogate mother almost 4,000 miles away rather than someone closer to home. https://www.instagram.com/p/BXssPyMlttl/ In France, all forms of surrogacy have been illegal since...

Disney cartoon series Doc McStuffins featured an interracial lesbian couple, and One Million Moms are not happy. In a first for a Disney Junior show, the most recent episode of the cartoon series featured same-sex parents. The episode, titled The Emergency Plan, was centred around teaching kids what to do in an event of an earthquake. Rather than featuring a mother and father, however, it featured two parents – voiced by Wanda Sykes and Portia de Rossi – trying to re-unite their...

You may recall Trystan Reese and his husband, Biff Chaplow as the gay Portland couple to publicly announce their pregnancy, earlier this summer. Trystan, who is a transgender man, was pregnant with BIff's child. And now, the happpy couple has given birth! From The Washington Post: Reese and Chaplow documented the pregnancy in blog posts and on social media, hoping to demystify what it means for a transgender man to give birth and to create a new sense of normalcy for people in...

In a recent Proctor and Gamble campaign for Luv’s diapers, the ad features two gay dads. The dads are going in for their first kids hair cut. They are excited and nervous and ask all the questions helicopter parents would. The barber is clearly frustrated, adding an element of humor to the campaign. The video ends with a surprise as it evolves into their second kid and how most parents usually are more relaxed. This isn't the first time P&G...

A new video game from Game Grumps about gay dads is shooting to the top of the Steam platform and the premise is pretty simple: find other dads in your neighborhood and woo them. Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is a game where you play as a Dad and your goal is to meet and romance other hot Dads. You and your daughter have just moved into the sleepy seaside town of Maple Bay only to discover that everyone...

This week, James Woods – the voice of Hades from Disney’s Hercules – revealed his own ignorance when he posted out a tweet slamming two parents and their ‘gender-creative’ child. In the online post, he suggested that allowing a child to experiment with their gender would lead to murderous behaviour. Adding that the child will eventually chop up his own parents. Attached to the Twitter post was a photo of the young family smiling for a picture at Orange County LGBT+...

Gay men are more likely to want to be involved in school-based activities Gay dads are more likely to be actively involved in their children’s lives than their straight counterparts, according to a study. Rutgers University PhD student Andrew Leland has said more gay men are more likely to want to be involved in school-based activities. His study appears to corroborate a study by the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network also showed gay fathers are more likely to be involved than straight...

A new advert for Google Home features gay dads, and it doesn’t make a big deal out of it at all. The ad for the Google device last for just over half a minute, and shows off its capability to support and recognise multiple users. The couple featured in the ad, Ross and Alex, both ask the device what is happening in their work days. They do this while their kids look on, eating breakfast. In the end, Ross realises he has a...

A gay couple from Brighton have opened up about their experience of being foster parents for the last 22 years. Kiiran and Chris have fostered 11 young people in the city from a variety different backgrounds. The couple even adopted one of the foster children who came into their care, who has since got married and had a child of their own. The two spoke to Brighton and Hove independent about the children that they’ve helped along in there transformative journey, and...

Thomas Cook has featured a family with same-sex parents in a bid to be “bold and contemporary”. The ad features a same-sex kiss and gay parents, and will debut on Christmas Day. The aim of the ad is to show that Thomas Cook can create experiences for different people at its resorts around the world. The marketing director of Thomas Cook, Jamie Queen, told Marketing Week of the ‘You want, we do’ campaign: “I think marketers can always do more to represent...

The collection, which includes classics like ‘The Wheels on the Bus’ is for kids who don't live in a one-mom-one-dad household A pair of gay dads have created an album of nursery rhymes specifically for kids of LGBTI parents. Why did they think that there was a need to re-work traditional nursery rhymes? In short, because many rhymes exclude dads or make references to moms only. After singing nursery rhymes to their own two children, they began to wonder whether other parents...

This gay couple are working to expand their foster care services across the Canada. The first ever LGBT adoption agency has been opened up by a gay couple, according to Dailyxtra. Lucas Medina and husband Chad Craig opened up Five/Fourteen, a service that finds LGBT foster children homes. Based in Ontario, the agency has 30 youths and children on its list who are waiting to be placed with families. The service also has around 140 applications from potential foster families across the country...

Flipping Out stars Jeff Lewis and Gage Edward are now parents to a bouncing baby girl! Monroe Christine Lewis was born, via surrogate, on Tuesday! Jeff posted this photo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BMAwxTgg3Ro/ At home dads got everything ready for the coming of a newly born baby to a new family! So nice room and cradle! She will be definitely happy child having two loving and caring dads at the same time! https://www.instagram.com/p/BLottjYgvp-/?taken-by=jljefflewis Congrats to the family and happy dads! Source