Without a Mom

Hank and Henry have raised their son Brooklyn with love and good intentions, but nothing has prepared the two gay dads for the day the boy's first real romance falls apart. Wanting desperately to help, they fumble through advice that lands somewhere between well-meaning and wildly off the mark, discovering that supporting a heartbroken straight teenager is a language neither of them quite speaks. Branden Blinn's fourteen-minute comedy-drama stars Austin Stowell as Brooklyn, with Billy Bean and Taymour Ghazi as his fathers and Kristen Clement in support. Later included in Blinn's anthology feature Remarkable Shades of Gay, it is a warm, gently funny look at a modern family learning that parenting has no rulebook, only the willingness to keep showing up.