The untold story of gay and lesbian foster families in the 1970’s

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From left: Robert, Don Ward, and a young man whom Ward described as the love of his life, in the early seventies. (Photograph courtesy Don Ward)

When Don Ward was a child, in Seattle, in the nineteen-sixties, his mother, each December, would hand him the Sears catalogue and ask him to pick Christmas gifts. By the time his parents filed for divorce, the catalogue had become…