Alicia Abbott

Yes.

I mean, I think that the experience of being a child of a gay parent in my generation or a child of a gay parent coming of age today is very different.

Most of the children born of gay parents in the first two decades after Stonewall, those children were the products of heterosexual unions, usually straight marriages.

And so in those situations, typically the parent was closeted and would come out after the child was born and

Either the parents would divorce or maybe the parent wouldn't come out.

But usually in those situations, the child would live with one of the parents.

And because the way the courts were set up, they're often living with the straight parent or sometimes with the mother.

My situation was unique because my mother died.

And so there really wasn't anyone clearly who I was going to live with other than my father.

So he was – I was living in an exclusively –

gay-headed household from as early as I can remember.

Children today, they are usually the product of a gay couple who would either adopt a child or go through a process of artificial insemination to have a child, but it's very much there as a couple wanting to have a child together.

So I had a very different situation when I was young.

There was very few

gay parents, or especially a few gay-headed households, so that I knew very few kids like myself growing up.

Yes.

When my parents first met at an SDS party and my father told my mother he was bisexual, she answered, that means you can love all of humanity instead of just half of it.

It was 1968 and everyone was talking about revolution.

My father had just returned from a summer in Paris.

The city was still roiling from the May riots when students had shouted, be reasonable, demand the impossible.