How do gay children of heterosexual parents build their gay identity It is not possible for it to be passed right down to them, like ethnicity, and Andrew Solomon knows from personal experience that such ‘horizontal identities’ often instead come under attack from the older generation. In researching his book, Removed from the Tree, he learned concerning the difficulties parents face when raising children who’re different to them. He uses the instance of deaf children and cochlear implants as an example how the road between what could be fixed and what shouldn’t is usually away from clear