Offering advice, resources
Brian Rosenberg, left, with his husband Ferd Van Gameren, right, and their children Gays with Kids founder talks parenting and progress Brian Rosenberg is on a very personal mission to help LGBTQ people build their families.
When he was in his 20s and 30s, he said in an interview, “Gay men were not thinking about becoming parents, because everyone who would have done it was dying.
And many of us, like myself, have HIV, and so we weren’t planning for it.” Now, Rosenberg and his husband, Ferd van Gameren, who live in the Boston area, are the fathers of three young teens and co-founders of Gays With Kids (GaysWithKids.com), an online community and resource for gay and queer men parents and prospective parents, which will soon expand to serve the entire LGBTQ community.
Their own path to parenthood in the late aughts was “complicated and confusing,” with “scant resources available,” Rosenberg said.
