The Utah Gay Father’s Association is a group dedicated to holding monthly, in-person social gatherings of gay dads along the Wasatch Front. Our focus is to embrace, affirm, and improve ourselves as gay fathers and men; to socialize and share the unique and universal joys, strengths, and challenges that we face as gay fathers in Utah. Activities include: Monthly get-togethers on the First Sunday of each month at 7:00 p.m. These meetings are rotated at various members’ homes, and will include light refreshments coupled with group discussions about what it means to be a gay father, current issues group members may be facing, helpful suggestions, venting, personal therapeutic or legal recommendations, etc. We’ll also be having a more informal monthly social “coffee gathering” on the third Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Additional proposed activities may include racquetball tournaments, theatrical and choral performances, etc. Email us, if you’d like to add something to the list, and be sure to check the calendar on this site for upcoming dates, locations, and times!
RESPECT for all members is key in our group, regardless of where we each may be on our own personal journeys–single, committed to our opposite-gender or same-gender spouses/partners, divorced, separated, or widowered; our children and grandchildren are all ages; some of us may not yet be fathers; some are atheists or agnostics, others are spiritual or religious from a variety of backgrounds (Catholic, LDS, UU, Jewish, Baptist, etc); our skin color may be as varied as the countries we originally come from. So long as the attitude is one of respect and value for others in the group, all are welcome.
Because group members come from a variety of different backgrounds and levels of openness about their sexual orientations within their external relationships, and because the social, familial, and vocational landscape within Utah is not always understanding of being gay or bisexual, a strong requirement of our group is to respect the confidentiality of each member. Prior to participating in group discussion, we ask everyone to agree to respecting the privacy of what is shared in order to maintain a safe space in which all can share our struggles and find solutions that may work for each of us, individually.
We hope to have fun activities that can improve our friendships and strengthen our our abilities as fathers and sons, brothers and uncles that are “always becoming, always complete.”
Finally a site that I can relate with. I hope to meet you all soon.
The University of Memphis’ GLBT Research Team is conducting a GLBT-affirmative study on Same-Sex Parenting, and we are hoping you will be interested in helping us recruit participants. Please consider distributing the following content to your e-mail list and/or posting to your site.
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The University of Memphis’ GLBT Research Team is conducting a GLBT-affirmative study on Same-Sex Parenting, and we are hoping you will be interested in helping us recruit participants.
The purpose of this study is to learn about the experiences of GLBT parents in relationship to legal parenting rights. We believe this research is important in advocating for parents to be fully recognized in their family role and to not be discriminated against in family concerns.
Participants must be 18 years or older, currently be in a relationship with the same-sex partner with whom they have planned and created a family, and have at least one child under the age of 18 living in their home. The study should take approximately 20 minutes to complete online and meets human subjects approval by our university Institutional Review Board (E10-43).
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=jVp53YOXI6tNs1dgubIk_2bg_3d_3d
If you wish to see our past work, please read about our research on the effects of anti-GLBT amendments on GLBT individuals and their families, which is available on the American Psychological Association’s website at http://www.apa.org/releases/glbt-stress-1108.html.
An overview of our research areas can be found on our school webpage at http://www.memphis.edu/cepr/glbt-research.htm.
Thank you for your consideration in supporting our advocacy for same-sex parents and their families.
Sharon G. Horne, Ph.D. & Heidi Levitt, Ph.D., Directors
GLBT Research Team
Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research
The University of Memphis
glbtresearch.uofm@gmail.com
Hi, I just signed up and filled out the profile stuff. I live in Vernal, and as a school teacher have the summer off and would like to come to the July meeting. Since traveling back to Vernal afterward would be very late, I’m wondering if anyone could put me up Sunday night afterward? My email is: mike.karren@gmail.com.
Also, I can’t seem to access other members’ profiles and would like to learn about you all. Please offer help if you can?
Hello, What sre the meeting dates for September? I apparently missed a Diva date in late August. I really love attending and hate to miss out. I also like to plan my activities days ahead (it gives me something to look forward to). Is there a possibility of posting meetings on a calendar so that men can plan? Thanks, Charles