Few pop hits of the 1950s were more expressly queer-coded than Doris Day’s Oscar-winning chart-topper “Secret Love.” “At last my heart’s an open door/And my secret lov…
,” an adoring portrait of a lesbian partnership entering its twilight years, and it’s an apt choice. Just as the song’s lyrical subtext didn’t prevent it being heard by the mainstream as a standard heterosexual love song, so did Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel pass for decades in general society as “friends” or “cousins,” the supposedly platonic nature of their relationship unquestioned even by some close family members.
This strain of familial discord lends ballast to what might otherwise be a more plainly sentimental tearjerker. Both Canadian-born, Donahue and Henschel have been resident in Illinois since the 1950s, having first relocated there to enable Donahue’s progress in the All-American Girls Baseball League. There was more to the move than that, however, as emigrating empowered both women to live as lesbians away from the potentially unaccepting gaze of family.
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