LONG ISLAND FAMILY
Daniel (son)
I don't go against my parents being gay, but I have a lot of my own issues like school, friends, and sports. It annoys me 'cause time after time I have to keep on talking about it. It would be so much better if everybody that asked me would be in one big room and I'd tell them and after that I wouldn't have to say it once more.
Jessica (daughter)
It's just like a mom and a dad because my papa's like a mom. It's like what moms do, and my dad's like a dad, like a regular dad.
Rob (father)
Whenever [Jessica] has a chance, she asks us when are we getting married. She has all the wedding plans. It has been a little difficult for her to understand that we're not married, and we can not get married. When the children hear that the law doesn't allow you to do that, the first thing they think is that the law doesn't allow you to hurt someone else. The law doesn't allow you to break into a private house and steal something. That's why it's so difficult for me to talk about it, how do I do it without confusing my daughter. What are you doing wrong? What's wrong that it's against the law?
Jon (father)
We never had to have a conversation with any of our kids, sitting them down and saying, "Daniel, Jessica, Christopher, we have something to tell you - we're gay." Because they always knew that, or maybe they didn't quite understand what "gay" meant, but they knew that they had two dads.