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Fairyland

by Alysia Abbott

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Fresh Air, NPR · October 17, 2025

A Girl Grows Up In The Epicenter Of Gay Liberation

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A memoir about growing up as the child of a gay single father at the dawn of the gay liberation movement in 1970s San Francisco, after her mother died, and her father later died from complications from AIDS.

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