It’s important to resist society’s attempts to define our families by sexuality alone, the Gayby Baby director says
Gus opened the door, transformed from the 10-year-old wrestling-obsessed kid in Gayby Baby into an awkward teen with a mop of blond hair and a skateboard appendage. I’d come to ask if he wanted to co-author a children’s book about his own story – a story that formed part of the 2015 documentary Gayby Baby that I directed (yes, that PG film about same-sex families that was banned from schools by the New South Wales premier).
I pitched it to him: “There’s a big gaping nothing when it comes to children’s books that represent queer families and identities. Wouldn’t it be great to write our own? It will be one of the first books where the crux isn’t just that our parents are gay. A story about masculinity, dressing up and wrestling!”
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