How does race and location shape the reproductive decisions of gay men who are intended parents? In this article, we propose the concept of strategic racialization to characterize the ways in which gay male parents employ racial matching in their selection of egg donors and surrogates in the United States and United Kingdom. We argue that racial matching is a strategy of stigma management. This study draws upon interview data from 40 gay male couples who formed families through surrogacy. We find that pre-conception fathers seek racialized resemblance to reinforce kinship between themselves and their children. In California and England, gay men seeking donor eggs engage in racial matching, which reveals that the racialized biogenetic model of kinship remains dominant. This study makes a significant contribution to the literature on race and queer family formation.

种族和位置如何影响准父母的男同性恋者的生育决定？在本文中，我们提出了战略种族化的概念描述美国和英国同性恋男性父母在选择卵子捐赠者和代孕者时采用种族匹配的方式。我们认为种族匹配是一种耻辱管理策略。这项研究利用了 40 对通过代孕组建家庭的男同性恋夫妇的访谈数据。我们发现，受孕前的父亲寻求种族相似性以加强他们与孩子之间的亲属关系。在加利福尼亚和英格兰，寻求捐赠卵子的男同性恋者进行种族匹配，这表明种族化的亲属关系生物遗传模型仍然占主导地位。这项研究对种族和酷儿家庭形成的文献做出了重大贡献。