Walter Bernstein, long a contributor to the New Yorker, wrote the screenplays for The Molly Maguires, Fail Safe, Semi-Tough, and Yanks. His script for Woody Allen's comedy about the blacklist, The Front, received an Oscar nomination. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and lives in New York.

This is a personal account by a father who came to terms with his daughter's homosexuality and discovered that his life was not diminished, as he had originally thought, but enriched by it. In Straight Parents / Gay Children, Robert Bernstein tells about his own and others' experiences with P FLAG, an organization that helps parents to achieve a fuller understanding and appreciation of human diversity. Bernstein's inspiring account serves as a call to action to all parents of gays not just to love and accept their children, but to speak out on their behalf. It includes sketches of a number of courageous P FLAG members who have taken the lead in seeking social equality and justice for their gay loved ones.