Mommy Man: How I Went from Mild-Mannered Geek to Gay Superdad

By: Jerry Mahoney

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Synopsis: As a teenager growing up in the 1980s, all Jerry Mahoney wanted was a nice, normal sham marriage: 2.5 kids and a frustrated, dissatisfied wife living in denial of her husband&’s sexuality. Hey, why not? It seemed much more attainable and fulfilling than the alternative—coming out of the closet and making peace with the fact that he&’d never have a family at all.Twenty years later, Jerry is living with his long-term boyfriend, Drew, and they&’re ready to take the plunge into parenthood. But how? Adoption? Foster parenting? Kidnapping? What they want most of all is a great story to tell their future kid about where he or she came from.Their search leads them to gestational surrogacy, a road less traveled where they&’ll be borrowing a stranger&’s ladyparts for nine months. Thus begins Jerry and Drew&’s hilarious and unexpected journey to daddyhood. From then on, they&’re in uncharted waters. They&’re forced to face down homophobic baby store clerks, a hospital that doesn&’t know what to do with them, even members of their own family who think what they&’re doing is a little nutty. One thing&’s for sure. If this all works out, they&’re going to have an incredible birth story to tell their kid.With honesty, emotion, and laugh-out-loud humor, Jerry Mahoney ponders what it means to become a Mommy Man . . . and discovers that the answer is as varied and beautiful as the concept of family itself.