Old Fears
July, 2011
AFRAID OF RENEWEDHARASSMENT, MANYLGBT SENIORS RETURNTO THE CLOSETFor most of her adult life, 64-year-old Denise Bonenfant lived as an openly gay women. She spent half those years—more than three decades—in a loving relationship with her partner, Sunny Toscano, who died in 2007 from cancer and heart disease. But as Toscano grew sicker and she and Bonenfant witnessed a close friend being denied access to her dying partner by estranged family members, they decided to go back into the closet, telli...
