Posted on 08/17/2009 11:08:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Davie couple celebrates their 70th anniversary as lesbian lovers
Celebrating an anniversary that has lasted as long as many peoples lives is some kind of feat. But doing it while having to keep your love a secret for nearly seven decades is a testament to just how strong the bond between Caroline Leto and Venera Magazzu is.
The two women, who live in Davie, celebrate their 70th anniversary today and plan to bring in the monumental accomplishment like any pair of 90-plus-year-old-women would - with the polka.
The forbidden romance started in 1939 at a party in New York. The chance meeting quickly flourished into the women living together a year later as roommates to the outside world, but secretly as lovers. Leto, now 96, told the Sun-Sentinel the couple told people they were just close friends or sisters.
The lesbians kept up the charade for decades through the womens rights movement and continuing on into the fight for gay rights - with only the closest of friends knowing of their relationship.
"I think most people had their suspicions, but they didn't really make a big deal about it because it was just two women," 97-year-old Magazzu said. "They didn't ask, and we just didn't talk about it."
The couple didnt become legal partners until 1996 at a ceremony in New York. They decided to move back to Florida where Magazzu penned a book about the couples struggle with love entitled An Unadulterated Story: Young and Gay at 90.
To mark their anniversary, the couple plans on throwing a party at Etz Chaim, a gay and lesbian congregation in Wilton Manors.
Oh my.
Well that explains it.
EWWWWWWWWWWW. Carpet munchers.
so, once again, a private sin becomes a case to celebrate... how sad...
I doubt it. Soup maybe.
They keep defining deviancy down . I don’t know about you , but when I was a kid , hell in 1980 , if somebody had told me that someday men would be able to marry men , and women marry women , I would have called the looney bin on them .
What do you give for 70 years of lesbian love? Matching BEEF CURTAINS.
Tuna pillow slips.
Soft Tacos?
70-years??
Anyone wanna guess what the expiration date was on those two??
Green River of Barf! We could sing a song about it
I’m guessing the favorite meal of the house: Cold grilled cheese sandwiches and mayonnaise.
Oh well, misery loves company so here ya go Laz!
No, they need to hide it. This couple lived their lives with being oppressed for being homosexual. Showing homosexuals living their lives not as victims all through the 20th century cannot be allowed.
Exactly. That’s the take away from this story.
ppy anniversiy and many returns but you were not mqarrieid you dumbass!
I don’t understand why FReepers always treat homosexuals so badly. These sound like a pair who lived the lives the way they wanted to and didn’t bother anyone. Isn’t that what a Free Republic is all about?
I know we all hate a “gay agenda.” That is something different.
But there must be a lot of gay Freepers or FReepers with gay kids. Are you really going to disown them and shame them??
If some of you consider it a sin, well, there are a LOT of sins and I have this feeling that there are no FReepers who are without any.
I’m happy for these two and their anniversary.
Generally because they treat us with disdain. If gays would just shut up, take it private and stop making the actions of their genitals a cause celebre and reason for their existence, we'd leave them alone.
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