Nan McTeer lived and loved in queer 1950s New York and Texas. Hugh Ryan finds liberation in her extraordinary life.
Nan McTeer lived and loved in queer 1950s New York and Texas, marrying a gay man and later a woman along the way. Hugh Ryan finds liberation in her extraordinary life.The first words Nan McTeer ever said to me were, “I’m currently in hospice care. I have lung cancer, it has metastasized to my brain, but my mind is still okay! You’ve got a while to pump me for information.”
Ginny had been incarcerated in the Women’s House of Detention, an infamous prison in Greenwich Village and the subject of a new book I was working on. I hoped Nan could tell me the gay side of the straightened story Ginny had written instory: the high school girl who could solo land a single-engine plane on the Calumet River; the college student who was hounded out of her all-women’s school for being a lesbian; the woman who married a gay man in 1957, and a gay woman in 2013.
She called my parents and told them I was known to roam the halls and the women were afraid of me, which wastrue. In the meantime, my lover there ran away. And it just got convoluted. That ended my Stephen’s and my airplane-flying days. When I was working for Delta, there was also Frank, a queen. He and I and somebody else went to see aknow what was going on. And Frank and I sat there and laughed. So we picked up on each other.
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