Tour stop #4. On June 5, I spoke with Craig Loftin, PhD, professor of American Studies at CSU Fullerton, at ONE Archives at USC Libraries, the world’s largest repository LGBTQ materials.
With Craig being a well-known queer historian, we were able to look at our family building story, documented in A Family, Maybe, as representative of the first wave of out gay parents – the transformative time when our family making intertwined with the struggle for equality of the LGBTQ community, including full and equal rights to civil marriage and public adoption.
I read several excerpts from the book depicting our path to parenting, which mirrored that of the community at large.
USC had posted the event on its Event Calendar, and ONE also publicized it advance of the talk.
Thank you, Dr Joseph Hawkins, Lexi, Quetzal, and Au at ONE who helped organize the event, and to all who came, asked questions, and, for some reason, decided to get a copy of my book.
Lane Igoudin 