What the...?

Elizabeth Fernandez, Chronicle Staff Writer

Sunday, October 1, 2006

There was never a particular number, never much of a plan.

Then a boy who'd been abandoned by his parents entered their home and their hearts.

A second child arrived, snuggled in a cradle. Then a third boy desperate for a home. Finally a fourth turned up, little brother in tow.

And the men who yearned to be parents became dads. And the children who needed a family found one.

Now the family -- two white gay dads and five children of color -- is living in San Francisco.

Dogged by years of racial bigotry and sexual discrimination, Gregory Stewart and Stillman White, partners for 26 years, moved to the city this summer, bringing with them their adopted brood of five boys, ranging from 6 to 13 years old.

Theirs is a singular mission: to be a family.

OK, a show of hands. How many of you think those five kids would be better off in an orphanage, or being shuffled from foster home to foster home?

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