My Great Aunt Luke couldn’t celebrate Pride Month, so I do, and so should we all
Michael's Cookie Jar locations will support Pride Month with special decorated cookies; a portion of sales will go to The Montrose Center Hatch Youth program.My Great Aunt Luke worked for 50 years as a nurse, treating three and even four generations of the same families in an Oklahoma town of 25,000 people.
Many folks, including my family, called them spinsters. In their home, one bedroom was set up like a teenage boys’ “Field and Stream Magazine” fantasy, with wood-paneling, fishing tackle, a .22 rifle, oddities of nature and camping gear. Another bedroom was full of frilly bedclothes, needlepoints and Old Master prints.
Luke and Mary Beth practiced “don’t ask, don’t tell” before the military did. As long as they didn’t draw attention, they figured they could keep living in their town.My younger cousins put the pieces together in 1991 after watching “Fried Green Tomatoes,” a film telling the story of a lesbian love affair beginning in the 1930s. But even with the progress toward LGBTQ rights and family reassurances, Luke and Mary Beth never felt comfortable talking about their love.
The only hint of Luke’s full identity came in a conversation about comforting a patient and friend with breast cancer who was about to undergo a double mastectomy.
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