Franklin Carter grew up in Alabama in a female-dominated household where he always dreamed of designing evening gowns for the rich and famous, like his favorite, Diana Ross. While he baked biscuits, cakes, and pies at the family's luncheonette, other boys were playing sports and chasing girls. He had to deal with unacceptance, ridicule and assumptions about his sexuality, mostly from his family until he started dating Pattie Hollis.Pattie, who knew...