![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn't just that I had a gay father- I had no mother, no siblings. ![]() "When I was a child, I struggled with feeling different. Abbott says she was the only child among adults-and the only girl among men. The pair moved frequently, amidst a cast of revolving roommates and very little structure. In her book “Fairyland,” writer Alysia Abbott details a nomadic life of adventure with her father- in a community of gay men looking for liberation. She hopes her story will spark more lead to more open minds and hearts about different lifestyles. Now, Abbott has written a memoir about her childhood, called “Fairyland”-and she’s also planning speaking engagements this weekend in Roanoke. Then the 80s saw the plague of AIDS sweep through her father’s community of friends. Her mother died when she was two years old, so she was raised by her father-a gay writer-in San Francisco’s bustling cultural scene of the 1970s. Writer Alysia Abbott did not have the most ordinary of childhoods. ![]()
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