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His snapshots are. For J. Ross Baughman, it was the moment he was positioned for and waiting to capture. Gay Dads Kissing was a history-making photograph that continues to hearten and resonate with many. The story of Gay Dads Kissing is a story about commitment to showing love and the waking up of the publishing world. Baughman, a photojournalist with an interest in social justice, won the Pulitzer-Prize for his photographs of the brutal treatment of prisoners by Rhodesian Security Forces.

Within a few years he left the Associated Press and opened the photo agency Visions. In his memoir, Angle , Baughman recounted how the powerful image of Robert and Michael—along with Eryn on piggyback—came to be. In the s most gay men still did not talk about or admit to being gay. Most gay dads lived as straight men in marriages. Baughman learned of the emotional and psychological pain and coping strategies that sometimes led to substance abuse.

Baughman was also aware that a pending federal court case would decide whether gay fathers could have custody rights. Men like Michael and Robert worried whether federal power might take their children from them for having same-sex partners. Baughman pitched Life Magazine a story that would explore this question. Life agreed it could be a compelling article and gave him the go-ahead. Baughman welcomed Anne Fadiman as writer for the article.

Their goal was to depict a happy, healthy gay family with dads willing to be visible to the world. For their subjects, the stakes were high in the early s. Baughman stayed with the family over several days capturing other ordinary family moments, such as playing Pac-Man in the living room and splashing in the swimming pool. The pictures and text came together as a significant page spread, but some obstacles began to emerge.

The editors pulled the Baughman cover photograph and instead ran a picture of Debra Winger, the actor from the film An Officer and a Gentleman , in a black ball gown sitting in a bathtub full of bubbles. Life published the 12 pages, but without Gay Dads Kissing.

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Baughman knew how important this photograph was for all those men and families he met at the Forum, those he and Fadiman interviewed, those whose relationships with their children hung in legal limbo, and all those who just simply needed to see this loving photograph. So, he sought publication elsewhere. However, the Christopher Street article was still not a double-page spread like Baughman had hoped, so he continued to make the photograph available through his photo agency.

Michael recently shared in an email to me that Robert did have to prep his employer before the Life article was published. Within a few weeks of the article, Robert was being set up to be fired for being gay, but he had wisely set the stage to protect his job by garnering support from the chairman—a black man, who also understood what workplace discrimination meant.

Michael also shared that he and Robert remain pleased to have been part of the history that raised the issue of parental rights for gay parents to a wider audience. For a while they were recognized in public and approached by individuals who found comfort and relief in making their story known.

They were interviewed on the Phil Donahue Show as well as other print and television outlets. But they began to pull back from media requests when they thought it might have a negative impact on the children. Michael and Robert have been together for almost 40 years and were married in Together they have owned successful businesses in the restaurant and leisure industries.