Abstract

ABSTRACT: One day in 1991, an affluent, white gay man walked into a hospital. To his surprise, he left a few hours later with a baby. Through the story of one Florida family, this essay explores the importance of the pediatric HIV-AIDS pandemic to the emergence of both state-sanctioned gay parenthood and the supposedly colorblind family politics of the 1990s. Drawing upon original oral history interviews as well as Black feminist scholarship, queer theory, and queer of color critique, this essay argues that social workers, doctors, and foster parents used daily decision-making practices to transform the meaning of family in the United States.

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