Baby Be-Bop is the fifth novel in the Dangerous Angels series. Readers initially meet Dirk in the first novel, Weetzie Bat. As Weetzie's best friend, Dirk is a catalyst in establishing her unorthodox "family" of misfits, animals, and young children. When Dirk inherits Fifi's house, this becomes their home. In Weetzie Bat, Dirk meets his fated lover, Duck, and together they father Weetzie's child, Cherokee, after her lover, Secret Agent Lover Man, leaves the home to find himself. When Secret Agent Lover Man returns, all four help to raise Cherokee and Witch Baby, a child fathered by Secret Agent Lover Man. In Weetzie Bat, the reader learns briefly of Dirk's and Duck's struggles to come to terms with being gay. But overall, Weetzie Bat is primarily Weetzie's story. The subsequent books, Witch Baby, Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys, and Missing Angel Juan, tell the stories...