nprfreshair:Author Alysia Abbott, author of Fairyland, tells Terry Gross about realizing she was a
nprfreshair: Author Alysia Abbott, author of Fairyland, tells Terry Gross about realizing she was an anomaly in the 1970s San Francisco gay community: I think from a young age I realized I was something different in this community because it was a community of young men, and here I was a little girl, and so I didn’t see other little girls around. So I always felt different, but from an early age I sort of liked this difference: It meant I could get all the attention. There was no one like me, and I felt sort of special in a way. But I think on one level, as a straight child of a gay parent, I always felt like a little too straight for the gay community, but also a little too gay for the straight community. So you know, I think I felt a little bit ill at ease in either world. Image of Abbot and her father, Steve, via The Boston Globe One of the most inspiring, haunting, and cathartic books I’ve read in a while -- source link
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