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From: hxe@rayssd.UUCP (Heather Emanuel)
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Subject: Re: New kid on the block (gay adoptive parents)
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 16:29:04 EDT
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Brian Mavrogeorge casually mentioned something in his article
that is of great interest to me and would, I think, be of great
interest to the rest of the net:

> I was very interested in the articles on Massachusetts and child care
> having gone through the adoption process here in San Francisco as an 
> openly gay couple...

Does this mean that you and your mate have, personally, adopted a
child?  If so, perhaps you could post a few more details both on the
legal/paperwork side of it and on the emotional aspects of it.
There was a series of postings in net.kids a while back on a man's
impressions of adopting a Korean boy; I looked forward to them daily
as a slice of life right out of a personal journal.  Maybe I'm off
base here, but I think these might be the kind of personal *and*
political ideas that people are saying they'd like to see here.

It sort of reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from "Torch Song
Trilogy" where the man is (yet again) arguing with his mother, this
time over the adopted son.  The mother is complaining about the
boy's exposure to the gay 'lifestyle':

SON:  Mom, he's gay.
MOM:  He's only been here six months!!!!
SON:  He CAME that way!
MOM:  NO ONE comes that way!!!
SON (shaking his head and muttering):  I'm not going to touch that one...

Guess you had to be there....

Anyway, Brian, I'd be interested in your experiences with an
adoptive child, if I understood your article correctly.

-- 
--Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5} rayssd!hxe
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