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

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

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

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

by Jerry Mahoney

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781589799226
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Publication date: 05/08/2014
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 6.40(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Jerry Mahoney is an award-winning comedy writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times and Westchester Magazine and on the Lifetime Moms website. He’s the author of the popular parenting blog Mommy Man: Adventures of a Gay Superdad, which was named one of the Top 10 Humor Blogs by Babble.com. He lives in New Rochelle, New York with his husband, Drew, and. .. well, the rest is quite a story.

Table of Contents

Prologue ix

1 Before It Gets Better 1

2 The Island of Misfit Gays 19

3 Our Daughter, Fu-Ling 32

4 Can We Borrow Your Lady Parts for Nine Months? 49

5 Um, Sperm 60

6 The Womb of Steel 71

7 The Wounded Bird 77

8 How We Met Your M-Word 89

9 More Than an Aunt, Less Than a Mom 100

10 What's-Her-Womb 109

11 Into Their Bodies, Out of Our Hands 127

12 Breeders 142

13 Puppy-Kicking Doodyheads 150

14 Susie and the Beast 159

15 The Ten Excruciatingly Long Days of Christmas 168

16 IPs in the Closet 175

17 The Sad Happy Face 184

18 A Family Outing 191

19 Bye Bye, Bubble 198

20 The Wedding We'd Never Had 205

21 Tiffany's Replacement 215

22 Fourth of July with the Family 222

23 One Last Peaceful Sleep 231

24 Pioneers Again 239

25 Another Coming-Out Story 249

26 Heart-Stopping 255

27 The Lottery 263

Epilogue 273

Acknowledgments 277

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