The pop culture gay flavor of the minute? White gay dads.
“We’re having a baby, Bri!” croons one of the leads on NBC’s The New Normal. “This is our family. You, me and that kid forever.”
It’s a mini-boomlet, says real-life white gay dad and sociology professor Joshua Gamson. Not too long ago, he says, pop culture mainly defined gay men as promiscuous and deviant, rather than monogamous and devoted to their families.
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