title: Getting Simon: Two Gay Doctors' Journey to Fatherhood
author:  Kenneth B. Morgen 
description: Charming, poignant, gripping-it is the determined journey of one male couple to parenthood-a journey many male couples yearn to take. By sharing their story Ken and Sam display the best of family values in the gay and lesbian community. the book has best-seller qualities with broad human appeal that will tug at the heart strings of all sensitive people. -David P. McWhirter M.D. and Andrew M. Mattison Ph.D. co-authors of A narrative of homosexual family values. The author, a gay male psychologist, passes the real life test of finding a birthmother who would have the baby with whom he and his life partner a gay male physician would become permanently bonded in parenthood. An engrossing personal Odyssey.
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  >  _For my parents, and for Anthony_
  
  >  **EDITOR’S NOTE**
  
  Disclosure: My father, a drummer named Jimmy Curtis, fell in love with Opal
  Jewel in the summer of 1970. For the duration of their affair he was married
  to my mother, who in ’71 got pregnant with me. Before my birth, before the
  world had a chance to know much about my father beyond these facts, he was
  beaten to death by a racist gang during the riot at