CNN Documentary on Gay Male Parenting on Tonight at 8pm
They’re parents “like anybody else,” says a sympathetic soul, but not really. Not quite. If they were like anybody else, these parents wouldn’t both be wearing “Proud Dad” caps at the baby shower.
As the title more than implies, “Gary and Tony Have a Baby,” a poignant and captivating CNN documentary that debuts Thursday evening, is the story of a family that’s both unusual and a sign of the times. It does not, as the cliche goes, “explore all sides of an issue,” but instead offers an intimate and affecting portrait of what happens when partners in a same-sex marriage set out to secure for themselves a blessed event, the limits of biology notwithstanding.
Sensitively but not mawkishly reported by Soledad O’Brien, the hour-long documentary is definitely high-road television — meaning it’s been made as a gesture toward enlightenment and not to grab big ratings, which it probably won’t…
