He had lived in the Castro district when he and Marsha started their relationship, and, as Robin said, “It’s a neighborhood. Yeah, there are a lot of gay men and gay women, but it has the same values as your neighborhood. They want peace and quiet. They want to live their lives, and they do have children—[here he slipped into his redneck voice] ‘It’s a frightening thing. Tell me no!’—from previous marriages, artificial insemination, a hundred different ways. It is family-oriented. People don’t acknowledge it, but that’s the reality.”
