A family fights for its right to exist
HE POWER OF FAMILY IS UNIVERSAL. IT TRANSCENDS TIME and borders, and connects people of every race, gender and sexuality. Yet throughout the world, certain families are granted more respect—while others are placed under direct threat. In HBO’s new three-part documentary filmmaker Ry Russo-Young turns the camera on her own family, documenting how her two mothers, Robin Young and Sandy Russo, formed a family in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s—at a time when the concept was unheard-of to many. Ry and her older sister Cade were born via sperm donors, two gay men that the girls grew up knowing. But their sense of safety was shattered in 1991, when Ry was 9, and her donor, an follows the historic four-year legal battle that ensued.
