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Actor and playwright Steven Fales will give a benefit reading on Sunday to raise funds for Darin Adams, a Pleasant Grove father who is facing mounting legal bills as he fights for custody rights to his three children. Adams, a former Mormon, separated from his wife six years ago after he came out as gay. The divorce was final a year ago. The children are now ages 8, 10 and 12.
Although Adams has joint custody, he says his ex-wife has threatened to move with the children to Sweden and has been denying scheduled visits with his children. He has filed a petition seeking full custody. He worries the courts have been slow to enforce his rights because he is gay.
Fales will be reading, "Who's Your Daddy," the third in his series of one-man autobiographical plays that began with "Confessions of a Mormon Boy." The reading is at 7 p.m., Sunday at First Unitarian Church, 569 S. 1300 East, Salt Lake City. A $20 donation is suggested.
Adams, a co-founder of the Utah Gay Fathers Association, and Fales hope this first event blossoms into a Utah Dads' Legal Fund for fathers, gay or straight, who need help in custody cases. The fund has a Facebook group but has not been incorporated as a nonprofit or registered as a Utah charity.