Fatherhood Dreams
Meet four gay men who have always wanted to be dads and discover the challenges they face as they realize their dreams of becoming parents.
The documentary Fatherhood Dreams invites people into the day-to-day lives of gay dads Scott, Steve, Randy and Drew, who are fathers through SURROGACY, CO-PARENTING and ADOPTION. Their private journey through fatherhood forces them to deal with much larger issues that affect gay fathers, including the legal aspects of surrogacy, the complexity of "open adoption", and the human rights battles concerning the official recognition of LGBT and multi-parent families. We'll stay with Steve and his co-parenting partners, lesbian mothers Coreen and Wendy while they are raising two children on an isolated island. We'll hear from a surrogate mother expecting Scott's twins. And we'll visit the house of adopted child's birth family that chose Randy and Drew, a gay family, to be the parents to baby Jack. This documentary film also gives the voice to children of gay parents - an outspoken four-year-old named Kizea and a teenager Jazz.
I'd probably be able to make friends pretty easily, but I'd be looking for somebody I could trust, and maybe somebody's who's fine with my parents being gay and lesbian. That would involve trusting that they're not going to go behind my back and tell people that they think it's stupid or something.- Jazz, 13
These men represent a new possibility, showing how in a modern world gay parenting can transform from a distant dream into a reality.
