Two women – pioneers of the time – who have kept their relationship secret for 65 years are the subject of a new documentary by American Horry Story creator, Ryan Murphy. The trailer opens with couple arriving in a nursing home with a staff member pointing out “We have not had any same-sex couples, but we do have family members that are”.
Henschel replies, “If they were, would they be accepted? Because we are a couple”. In 1947, Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel, met in an all-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) the inspiration for Penny Marshall’s 1992, A League Of Their Own, and as the documentary trailer explains that it was “in a time women when didn’t do that… When difference was not looked on as something good”. “We
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