Article: The challenge of loss. (my perspective).(Obituary)

My father, Stan, was an artist and professor who first discovered his voice in 1960s San Francisco. He became an award-winning poet in the brief span of time just after the beatniks started to lose ground and the hippies were gathering numbers. For Dad, homosexuality was a colorful enigma and an intrinsic part of the city he was so madly in love with. After I came out to him at 18, he treated my sexuality in much the same way. Gentle teasing was his preferred method for showing me that my sexuality would always cause me more disquiet than it would ever cause him. I think he knew even then that the struggles that lay ahead for me would cast him on the periphery.

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