00:00So this is our standard one bedroom, and it has a balcony.
00:04We have not had any same-sex couples, but we do have family members that are.
00:08If there was, would they be accepted?
00:11Because we are a couple.
00:14They've been in my life since day one, and they've always been Auntie Terry and Auntie Pat.
00:19Didn't know they were gay until three years ago.
00:22How long have you guys been together?
00:2465 and a half.
00:2565 and a half years.
00:27All these years, they've been together, and they've hid this secret from us.
00:33Holy shoot.
00:35You were pretty cute, my dear.
00:37They were playing baseball.
00:38Women didn't do that.
00:40They had the courage to do something so different in a time when difference was not looked on as something
00:47good.
00:49We always wore dresses and makeup, the whole thing.
00:54Anybody who was not gay, they simply didn't know.
00:58I felt like I was sort of living a lie.
01:00I love my mother, but she wouldn't disown me.
01:05So you were pioneers in a time when it wasn't popular.
01:08That's right.
01:08Exactly, in the 40s.
01:10You had to be very careful.
01:11Those were the days where buyers that were suspected of being lesbian buyers were frequently raided.
01:16They could be arrested and thrown in jail.
01:18There are many stories about people losing their job and committing suicide.
01:21That's a replication of the bar raids.
01:24I think love is love, and it's the most important thing.
01:28What she means to me.
01:32She means everything.
02:00No regrets.
02:03I do it all over again.
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