Carolina de Robertis didn't talk about being disowned by her parents. It was a relatively slow-moving process, beginning at 19 when she first put words to her queerness and culminating six years later when she met the woman she would eventually marry and thought, "This is the love of my life." Her parents responded by cutting ties and trying to turn her siblings against her and her children.
Talking, at least publicly, about her parents proved challenging. "I would get hit with xenophobia and anti-Latinx bias. Anti-Latinx stereotypes would come at me almost immediately," says de Robertis, the author of the international bestseller, The Invisible Mountain. "I would say, 'Well, my parents disowned me for being gay.' And people would say,.