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Description:Finally, she addresses the political implications of chosen families. She presents interviewees' stories of discovering their sexual identities and of their subsequent relations with straight families. In recent decades, however, gay men and lesbians have increasingly portrayed themselves as people who seek not only to maintain ties with blood or adoptive relatives but also to establish families of their own. Publisher's Summary Kath Weston draws upon fieldwork and interviews conducted in the San Francisco Bay area to explore the ways in which gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism of love, friendship and biology.

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