Stewart Brand (Ed.): Whole Earth Catalog. Access to Tools, Spring 1969 (Backcover) — via The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2013, curated by: Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke
Author Alysia Abbott, author of Fairyland, tells Terry Gross about realizing she was an anomaly in the 1970s San Francisco gay community:
I think from a young age I realized I was something different in this community because it was a community of young men, and here I was a little girl, and so I didn’t see other little girls around. So I always felt different, but from an early age I sort of liked this difference: It meant I could get all the attention. There was no one like me, and I felt sort of special in a way. But I think on one level, as a straight child of a gay parent, I always felt like a little too straight for the gay community, but also a little too gay for the straight community. So you know, I think I felt a little bit ill at ease in either world.
Image of Abbot and her father, Steve, via The Boston Globe
