DeBlasio is married to a Massachusetts woman. She grew up in Springfield, went to high school in Longmeadow and graduated from Wellesley. She’s black and a lesbian. Actually she was a lesbian but converted.
She was also a member of the Boston-based black feminist lesbian "
Combahee River Collective," which published a manifesto in 1977 which states, "We realize that the liberation of all oppressed peoples necessitates the destruction of the political-economic systems of capitalism and imperialism as well as patriarchy. We are socialists because we believe that work must be organized for the collective benefit of those who do the work and create the products, and not for the profit of the bosses."