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The newly released movie Fairyland, produced by Sophia 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.

It's not uncommon now to see children with gay parents, but it was uncommon when she was raised by her gay father in the 1970s and 80s.

Her father, Steve Abbott, was a poet, essayist, and editor.

In 1969, when he married the woman who became Alicia's mother, he described himself as bisexual.

Both of them were graduate students at Emory University in Atlanta. Alicia writes that while her parents shared a bed and a life,

her father helped organize Atlanta's Gay Liberation Front and was the Gay Lib editor at Atlanta's

Alternative Weekly, The Great Speckled Bird.

Two years after Alicia was born, her mother was killed in a car accident.

Soon after, her father decided they would move to San Francisco, and the Hade Ashbury neighborhood

became their home.

Steve Abbott died of AIDS-related complications in 1992. Terry Gross spoke with Alicia

Abbott in 2013. Her memoir is based in part on her father's journals. 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 about what it's like to be a gay parent

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