Waiting for the Call: From Preacher's Daughter to Lesbian Mom
Taylor opens with a stunningly moving depiction of her 14-year-old adopted daughter's baptism into a pentecostal church in Chicago that includes gays and lesbians, "a place," the teen says in tearful gratitude, "where both my moms are welcome." Taylor then recalls herself as a youngster, loving the church as much as she sometimes resents the burden of being a Southern Baptist minister's daughter and expressing her wish for "the call" to at least missionary work. As she matured, her life felt restricted to her, and she "escaped" in succession to college, a failed marriage, and a second marriage entailing relocation to Chicago and three failed pregnancies. Meanwhile, her mother's manic depression steadily worsened. At 31, despite an upbringing in which homosexuality was "unmentionably beyond the pale," she left her husband three weeks after her first lesbian kiss; struggled to a kind of adjustment with her shocked, disapproving, but loving parents; and eventually found a gay-friendly church and a life partner. A compelling testament on the permutations of love.Whitney ScottCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.