Meet Dennis Kwan

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Dennis Kwan. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Dennis below.

Dennis, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.

From watching a documentary about sperm donors. I watched Lisa Ling’s special “This Is Life: Got Sperm?” and had an a-Ha! moment.

While the special was mostly about serial sperm donors who travel the country donating to as many families as possible, I realized that this was the path I wanted to pursue for myself, but just for one very special person or family. And I wanted to create a path for others like me to do the same. Thus the idea for Gayby was born.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

Gayby is a platform that matches LGBT+ couples and single women with gay sperm donors.

The ideal vision is that these donors would mostly be known donors, that they would become friends and perhaps family with the people they are donating to.

I think it is special and exciting but it is a lesser known path for people to become parents, especially in the LGBT community. Most gay men assume that to become parents they need to either adopt or find a surrogate and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and devote 20 years to being a full time parent when there are other options available and it can be much easier and more cost-effective but just as fulfilling.

We are hoping to change the world in this way.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

My ability to network has been key in finding the right people to brainstorm with and partner with in this endeavor and will be key in finding funding and promoting it in the future.

Having the ability to make money elsewhere (with my “day job” as a photographer) has also been key to funding this passion-project.

Also just being calm, flexible, and resilient in dealing with setbacks because nothing has gone or ever goes according to plan.

Is there a particular challenge you are currently facing?

Currently our biggest challenge is just educating the masses of prospective parents and gay men out there that this is a path to parenthood worth pursuing.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.gayby.com
• Instagram: @gayby4all
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennis-kwan-6b82634?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app