A Place to Call Home

A Place to Call Home

I think about who buys this house after me. For years the picture defaulted to what I was taught to picture: a wife and husband, 2.5 kiddos. This morning the picture changed. Why not a queer family? Why not two dads, or two moms, or a transgender couple building something in the same rooms that I’ve built in?

This triptych imagines three versions of that family, each on the ends holding an ultrasound, a transgender couple in the center experiencing the joys of pregnancy, all under the same Jupiter 3 protecting the scene, and the same Aquarian Moon that bodes well for everyone in the home.

Sadly, the math still runs against these potential home owners. Urban Institute research puts the LGBTQ+ homeownership rate at 51 percent, against 71 percent for straight, cisgender people — a twenty-point gap that survives even after adjusting for age, income, and marriage. Legal marriage has been slow to deliver the same financial lift for queer couples that straight couples enjoy.

The house, the yard, the ultrasound in the front lawn: still a lift. Still a dream for many queer families. Let’s change that.

So call this a small piece of manifesting. Not a policy fix, not a study. Just me, loving this house on purpose — fixing what breaks, updating what’s tired, filling it with good vibes — the kind of special care only a gay man can bring to a house, and I’m bringing mine now so it will be there for when that queer family walks up the zigzag sidewalk.

— Behan

“A Place to Call Home” | Gay Domestic | The Subdivision | Digital Photocollage Triptych | 2026