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.

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