Bettina Aptheker

Staff Writer

Of Film Festivals and Homophobia

We find ourselves in Sweden. A gay couple is on the waiting list to adopt a baby. They have been approved as parents. They receive a letter. A boy, age 1.5, is arriving. The men are ecstatic, although one of them is still a bit apprehensive about this whole adoption idea. They outfit a nursery.  The “baby” arrives on a Friday afternoon. He is 15,  a troubled teen released from a reformatory, and to say that he is homophobic is to put it mildly.

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