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British Duo Having both a Male & Female at £200,000 Surrogate Mother Speaks of Helping Guys Become Dads |
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Compiled By GayToday
London---Barrie Drewitt, 30, and Tony Barlow, 35, new grown millionaires whose fame in
Great Britain is now front page news—live in a luxury home in Chelmsford, Essex. They are openly gay.
On January 1, 2000, they are—much to the interest of the press--expecting to be fathers
to a twin boy and girl now presently residing in a surrogate mother's womb.
This mother was brought into contact with Drewitt and Barlow through a surrogacy agency in Los Angeles that deals, as described by a London tabloid, with "wealthy homo-sexual and lesbian clients". Eggs, fertilized in a laboratory, were provided by a woman donor. Some of each of the male couple's sperm was implanted. Both of the expected children already have been assigned their names. The twin sister will be called Saffron and her brother, Aspen.
Now, in what was initially publicized almost as a Cinderella story-for male-couple-Dads, discussions have turned in popular London tabloids, to what The Mirror, September 7, near-salaciously calls the "seedy sex" side of the fathers-to-be story. What, in fact, had been "seedy", according to the Mirror's judgments on moral matters, was the on-line "seedy sex chat room" that the millionaire couple ran at an earlier period in their careers. The chat room had been an abject failure and those hired to run it, purportedly for a month before getting paid, were, apparently, not paid. A poster girl—namely, a mistreated employee with documentation to prove she's still owed past wages by the millionaires— has stepped forward. The millionaires have assured British reporters that they will make good on bills past due. One admitted to the failure—several years ago-- of the mens' chat room business in which everything of value was lost by the couple, including lodgings. One had declared bankruptcy, reportedly, in 1996, shortly before he accumulated his more recent fortune. In the meantime, in what had seemed an ideal beginning for a Dad & Dad media blitz has, of late, has turned into a morality play which, with typical British understatement, raises without saying so explicitly, the issue of parental fitness. The controversy, some believe, has been ignited by 'family values' moralizers. |
