The Utah Gay Father's Yahoo Group is the means of coordinating 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 pot-luck dinners hosted at members' homes, followed by 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.

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 strict requirement of our group is to respect the privacy of each member. Prior to participating in group discussion, everyone will be asked to respect the confidences of others, maintaining a safe space in which all can share our struggles and find solutions that may work for 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."