![]() ![]() Through-lines in the story include San Francisco in transition from hippie Mecca, to AIDS ground zero, Abbott senior's sexuality and HIV status, and Abbott junior's balancing act of extraordinary circumstance, and the reasonable dreams of a life of her own and a father that does not die before her.Īt Visual AIDS we use art to provoke dialogue around HIV/AIDS and so we convened a book club around Fairyland to dive into Abbott’s life and highlight a topic not often discussed: the lives of children whose parents died of AIDS in the early days of the epidemic when the government was thick with neglect, the public with apathy, and the media with inaction. And then there were two, a father-yearning to express himself, find love and be a good father-and a daughter, working to grow up, chart her own path, and hold on to the most precious love she knew-that of her Dad. While the book includes glimpses of Steve’s life before Alysia was born, it primarily concentrates on life between father and daughter after Barbara (Steve’s wife, Alysia’s mother) dies in a car accident when Alysia was a toddler. We learn of this American journey through his daughter Alysia Abbott, who wrote Fairyland, A Memoir of my Father. ![]() By the time the 80s arrived he was in San Francisco as an out gay man, a single father, and a person living with HIV. ![]() Steve Abbott was a writer and illustrator who came of age in the 1950s and 60s in Middle America and the south. ![]()
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