Harvey Guillén

Maybe meeting her will help him understand who he's supposed to be.

Stephen tells her who he is, that he's been looking for her his whole life, and then she rejects him completely.

doesn't want him in her life, doesn't want to know him, doesn't want a reminder of a mistake she made decades ago.

Stephen leaves that meeting feeling hollowed out.

If his birth mother doesn't want him, his adoptive family can't see who he really is, and he can't even be honest about who he loves, then who is Stephen exactly?

In the early 1980s, Stephen moves to Houston.

He gets an executive job with Cisco, a national food distributor.

They double his Virginia salary and he buys a house in one of Houston's upscale subdivisions.

Months later, once he's settled in, Debbie and Stephanie come to join him.

By that time, though, Stephen's already living a double life.

During the day, he's a respectable food industry exec.

At night, he drives into Houston's vibrant gay neighborhood, where nobody knows his real name.

He meets men at bars, goes dancing, explores a whole world he's kept hidden for decades.

Nobody at work knows.

Neither does Debbie.

And Stephen's getting really, really good at being two different people at once.

And then, in 1985, Stephen's adopted father dies.

It triggers a personal crisis in Stephen.

The man who raised him and loved him is gone.

And Stephen never told him the truth about his sexuality.