Gay Families

Families come in all shapes and sizes. Most of our members are fathers who have children from former heterosexual relationships. Some are supportive partners of gay fathers and others are gay fathers through adoption. We are a diverse group of men from all backgrounds, races, and religions. We come together to give each other support and encouragement and also to have a little fun. Collectively our members have been through the trials and challenges of coming out, separation, divorce, rebuilding and establishing new relationships. A place of encouragement and understanding, GFC Baltimore has many members who are leading happy, normal, fulfilling lives as loving fathers, partners and friends...who just happen to be gay.

Welcome

Mission

Provide a support and communications network for gay fathers.

Encourage cooperative action in promoting the common interests of gay fathers and their families.

Provide opportunities for social interaction between gay fathers, their children, and friends.

Promote and sponsor activities that present a positive image of gay fathers.

Encourage acceptance of alternative parenting within the community.

Membership

Membership in GFC Baltimore is open to gay fathers, their partners and family members.  In addition to our monthly meetings, membership includes subscription to our monthly newsletter, News & Views, invitation to social events such as our annual Fathers Day Picnic and December Holiday Party, and email bulletins.

Annual Membership is $30 per family, collected every July.

Lifetime Membership is available for $125 per family.

Temporary Membership provides all the benefits of paid membership free for 3 months to those who want to take some time to get to know GFC Baltimore.

Supporting Membership is available for those who are not associated with gay fathers but who support GFC Baltimore's goals and objectives. Supporting membership is $10.00 annually (collected every July) and includes subscription to our monthly newsletter, News & Views, and email bulletins.

"Nor is homosexuality a matter of individual choice. Research suggests that the homosexual orientation is in place very early in the life cycle, possibly even before birth. It is found in about ten percent of the population, a figure which is surprisingly constant across cultures, irrespective of the different moral values and standards of a particular culture. Contrary to what some imply, the incidence of homosexuality in a population does not appear to change with new moral codes or social mores. Research findings suggest that efforts to repair homosexuals are nothing more than social prejudice garbed in psychological accouterments."

What would the Founders say about equal rights for gays?

"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."  Thomas Jefferson