Fairy land of San Fran

This book outlines the lives of a father and daughter in San Francisco in the 80s and 90s. Well written, the daughter inherits the writing talents of her father, and shares both with the reader. A surprise is the insight that comes from the mind and experiences of the daughter on how a culture of anti-gay within society can impact those who love and are connected to gay people.

“I didn’t meet any children of gay parents until I was an adult. And among these “queerspawn,” as some have chosen to call themselves, I’ve felt a powerful bond, especially around that peculiar feeling, something like loneliness but more akin to isolation. In those first decades after Stonewall, our families had no way to connect, to make sense of ourselves and where we belonged. We had no Provincetown family week, no openly gay celebrities like Ellen or Dan Savage, no Modern Family. We saw no versions of our parents in books or on screen. And so we considered ourselves outside the social fabric, cut off from “the normal”. As kids, we often existed in a state of uneasiness, a little too gay for the straight world and a little too straight for the gay world”.

[BGW141] 2013