The Discipline of a Gay Parent

Dr. Hemingway was a strict disciplinarian, according to his daughter Marcelyn's memoirs. For serious infractions he went at them with a razor strap that he kept in the closet and washed their mouths out with bitter tasting soap. Their mother sometimes spanked them too but her anger was controlled, whereas his was explosive. "There is something different about a little bit of physicality as a part of a deliberate discipline regime," she says.