Richie Jackson Biographies of the famous and not take very different paths Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son by Richie Jackson (Harper 2020) $24.99; 163 pp. From the time he was a small boy, Richie Jackson knew two things: 1.
He “felt lucky to be gay,” and 2. He wanted to be a father someday. “Everything good that has happened to me is because I am gay,” he writes — and that includes the birth of his son, born to a surrogate when Jackson was in his thirties.