Inside a Mixed-Orientation Marriage Becoming Parents (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: This woman married a gay man, and now they have a baby together.

[00:00:03] Speaker 2: You're a special guy made out of a special love story.

[00:00:09] Speaker 1: Samantha Wynn-Greenstone and Jacob Hoff met a decade ago while auditioning for a play. She knew he was gay, but she also knew she had developed feelings for her best friend.

[00:00:19] Speaker 3: It was amazing how instantly it did work just because we have such a deep connection as people.

[00:00:28] Speaker 1: Seven years later, they got married, all along being very open on social media about their mixed-orientation relationship. I'm Samantha, and I married a gay man, and we're having a baby. Jacob says one of the most common questions he gets is why he doesn't just consider himself bisexual.

[00:00:45] Speaker 3: Gay is my feelings. It's what's going on in my brain. I don't have attraction to women, so the label of bisexual doesn't feel right for me.

[00:00:57] Speaker 1: For Samantha, people often wonder if Jacob will cheat or leave.

[00:01:01] Speaker 2: I'm insulted for Jacob because he's the most loyal, dedicated, honest, amazing man that I've ever met.

[00:01:11] Speaker 1: If you were wondering, they conceived the old-fashioned way. We birds and we bees.

[00:01:16] Speaker 2: Yes.

[00:01:16] Speaker 1: And now they're navigating how to share this new chapter on social media without sharing their son's face or name.

[00:01:22] Speaker 3: Your father's a homosexual. Yes, and that's okay.

[00:01:27] Speaker 1: They're hoping he'll grow up in a world where people don't bat an eye at their relationship dynamic.

[00:01:32] Speaker 2: And every time we share, we get a whole new slew of messages of people being like, this happened to my daughter, or this was my parents. And we feel like we are becoming representation for this community that is underrepresented. And we want people to see us as an example of a beautiful love story.