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Barrie Drewitt-Barlow

Barrie Drewitt-Barlow (left) with Tony

Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 40 year old same sex parent of 5 children born through surrogacy, lives with his partner of 25 years, Tony Drewitt-Barlow. Barrie met Tony in 1987, on a rough council estate in Longsight, Manchester. Both men cam from very poor backgrounds and fought to escape the poverty they were born into. After years of failed business attempts, the men started a chat line targeting same sex couples and single gay men, who where looking for casual dating experiences and they set up the first UK gay chatlines. 0898 as they were in the early 90's.

After several successful years of providing this service to the gay community, Barrie sold the business to a competitor company for a reported 3 million UK pounds. Barrie went back to school and did a degree in Social Work at the University of East London. By 1996, Barrie had qualified as a social worker and decided to stay in the South East and with Tony, they set up Globecrown Services Ltd. Developing novel protocols to help companies who made personal care products and house hold cleaners, to show the consumer they were safe to use, in Clinical Studies.

After two successful years of running the company, Barrie and Tony sold the controlling interest to Hill Top Research, the biggest consumer product testing company in the world for a reported £6 million pounds. It was during this time that Barrie had decided that surrogacy was the only way forward for him and tony to have a family.

On December 9th 1999, Aspen Drewitt-Barlow and his twin sister, Saffron Drewitt-Barlow were born. The first children to be born to a same sex couple in the UK, via surrogacy. Although the children were actually born in California USA. In August 2003, Aspens biological twin, Orlando was born and in February 2010, Jasper and Dallas were also born.

Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow were joined by more than 240 people at a service for their five-month-old twins Dallas and Jasper at St John the Baptist Church in Danbury, Essex. Son Orlando, the third of their five children, was also christened at the service, which was attended by surrogate mother Rosalind Bellamy and the egg donor - 'up-and-coming Russian supermodel' Alexandra Cooper-Strash.

The couple have three other children to surrogate mothers and made three documentaries that have followed the couple's attempts to create a family through surrogacy and egg donation. It highlighted the abuse and homophobia the family have to put up with from other families on a daily basis. And also highlights the abuse the family went through with social services in Essex, where they live, not allowing same sex couples at the time to adopt or foster.

The Drewitt-Barlows, from Danbury, Essex, first hit the headlines in 1999 when they travelled to the U.S. and used donated eggs and a surrogate mother to become fathers to twins Aspen and Saffron, now 12.Following a ruling by the American Supreme court, they became the first British children to be registered as having two fathers and no mother. This was a first for a European same sex couple. The couple have campaigned ever since the original ruling in California to get the same acceptance for couples in Europe and especially in the UK.

Their first surrogate was a Californian woman, Rosalind Bellamy. Who Barrie classes as one of his best friends. Along with Donna Calabrese who carry two pregnancies for them.

The couple, who live in a Grade II-listed home with their children, became multi-millionaires in 1998 when they sold their successful clinical research company. But after the birth of their twins they were accused of creating 'designer' children and received death threats. They fell out with the genetic mother of their children, Tracey McCune, who accused them of raising a bunch of spoilt brats. She revealed the couple showered their brood with designer goods and told how Saffron wore Chanel No 5 perfume, diamonds and designer clothing.

They have had many TV and magazine appearances over the past ten years. Campaigning for recognition for same sex couples to be seen as the parents of their children born through donor insemination, egg donation or surrogacy.

They men have been criticized for shower expensive luxury's on their one and only daughter Saffron.

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Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

File:Barrie_&_Tony.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

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EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:44, 24 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

File:Barrie & Tony.jpg

Latest comment: 12 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

File:Barrie & Tony.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry.

If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues.

Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

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Hedwig in Washington ^(MAIL?) 08:20, 28 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

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