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The memoir was highlighted as the source material for the newly released film and the host expressed gratitude that Alicia Abbott had written it.
The newly released movie Fairyland, produced by Sofia Coppola and directed by Andrew Durham, stars Scoot McNary as a gay single father raising his daughter in San Francisco in the 1970s. It's based on...
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The memoir was highlighted as the source material for the newly released film and the host expressed gratitude that Alicia Abbott had written it.
The newly released movie Fairyland, produced by Sofia Coppola and directed by Andrew Durham, stars Scoot McNary as a gay single father raising his daughter in San Francisco in the 1970s. It's based on a memoir of the same name by Alicia Abbott, who wrote about growing up in the early years of the gay rights movement in the capital of gay America, San Francisco.
Alicia Abbott, welcome to Fresh Air. I'm so glad you wrote this book because I feel like we, or at least I've read a lot more about what it's like to be a gay parent than what it's like to be a child of a gay parent.
A lot of your memoir is based on your father's journals and on letters he wrote and my impression reading your book was that he had meant he had intended those journals to be read it by you at some point so that you would understand more of who your father was.