Ghost writer first touch: [must be the friendliest father bear or bull ghost writer. must want to invite him over.]
1. Set up meeting, explain nothing about book.
2. Prepare ripped piece of wide-lined notebook paper with [Right of the Rainbow] location on bio website. Fold 6 times.
3. No words. Hand to him.
4. We walk away.
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Concept: Conservative, straight father encouraging his gay sons to make a family. Personalize by sticking to term, "gay" rather than using formal LGBTQ+ language.
Background: I have a best friend who is gay. I know his pain, and I know how much shame he carries about fatherhood. He uses drugs without looking towards the future like future parents learn to do. . .
B U L L S: Be Urself, Love Little Slaves.
B-E-A-R-S: Body Every Anal Rearend Sexual. Now say it backwards. . .
Target audience: 13-17 year old gay young men.
Begin with sweet story about a daddy-bear and a daddy-bull that is inclusive to straight people. Don't reveal for at least a few pages. I'm imagining two fathers watching their kids at a playground, then it's revealed that they're a couple. . . anything along those lines, please take creative liberties.
Commanding to extremely commanding tone. Inclusion. We're including straight people in the LGBTQ+ community.
Take your clothes off. Now look at yourself in the mirror. You are a sexy beast, but which one?
"Gay people need to start having families like the rest of us daddy bears and bulls." Otters, too. . . Bottoms are inferior and are referred to as such. It turns them on. (SHH I know not all otters are bottoms)
Gay people have the lowest divorce rate of any other species of couples. Be a father. Don't worry even as much as I do.
New LGBTQ+ idioms and terms about a food chain. . . Fatherhood and motherhood. Babies. Nieces and nephews. How to make your friends the Uncles and aunts, etc. . .
This needs to be a book that an Instagram addict will read.
They wouldn't just turn the page on the history of the LBTQ+ community, they'd throw the whole book away. Jump into it.
". . . Look down at your phone. You're already doing that, good boy. Now call your best female friend. Ask her if she will carry you and your husband's child. . . My wife and I use IVF."
"Otters aren't always "bottoms" or "subs". . . I learned this recently. They're just smaller."
You could say, "good boy," a dozen or more times in the book. . . "the otters have to learn to say it, too."
A chapter about my feelings: I was suicidal from the day that I was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I have a wonderful family now, and even the belief that I could someday be a father was enough to bring me through.
