Alysia Abbott

Alysia Abbott and Whitney Joiner talk about “The Recollectors,” a storytelling and community website for the many children and families left behind by parents who died of AIDS.

Alysia Abbott, author of the new book Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, talks about her new memoir and growing up with a gay single father in the context of the early days of the AIDS epidemic and the gay rights movement. Listeners: Any kids of a gay parents, call us up and talk about how you reacted to last week's Supreme Court rulings--and tell us what it's been like growing up with gay parents. 212-433-9692 or comment here.

Alysia Abbott discusses growing up in San Francisco in the 1970s and 80s with an openly gay father. Her memoir, Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, reconstructs their life together in a city bustling with gay men in search of liberation—few of whom were raising children. She also writes about how AIDS ravaged their community.