BURIED TOGETHER
Partner Marie Equi, buried together
Queer Places:
Nortonia Hotel, 409 SW 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97205, Stati Uniti
Wilhelm Portland Memorial, 6705 SE 14th Ave, Portland, OR 97202, Stati Uniti
Marie
Equi undertook the longest lesbian relationship of her life in 1905
after meeting a younger woman, Harriet Speckart, the niece of Olympia
Brewing Company founder Leopold Schmidt. Speckart’s family was vehemently
opposed to the two women’s relationship, and Speckart battled in the
courts for years with her mother and brother to receive her rightful
inheritance. After ten years of sharing a life together, Equi and Speckart
adopted an infant girl, Mary, because Speckart wanted to raise a child.[4]
As an adult, Mary recalled that she had called Speckart “ma” and Equi “da”
since everyone called Equi “Doc.” In later years the two women separated
but remained close until Speckart’s death in 1927.
References:
Other references:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Equi#References
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