Meet the Iowa Lesbians Finally Married After 72 Years

Vivian Boyack and Nonie Dubes had been together as a couple, living together since the early 1940s, but in their seven decades together they had never told anyone they were a lesbian couple much less considered marriage. But, according to the Des Moines Register, that all changed when a friend—someone once opposed to same-sex marriage—came to the Iowa couple to tell them they had helped change his mind.

Mike Kilen writes that it was 73-year-old Jerry Yeast, who first met the women in college and remained friends. He realized they were a couple when he and his wife visited and noticed the couple shared a bed.

"My journey in accepting same-sex relationships was formed by these two women, so I thought I should thank them," he told Kilen. So he told that to the womem and it was their first time ever speaking about their relationship. "I was dumbstruck. I kind of blanked out, until I said, 'My gosh, this is Iowa! You should get married.'"

The couple, who met in 1942 at the Iowa State Teachers College (now known as the University of Northern Iowa), were afraid of making headlines, afraid of the attention. But after much encouragement, the two married after 72 years together.

http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2014/09/21/meet-iowa-lesbians-finally-married-after-72-years

Yes we heard about it when they got married, now we get a little bit about them.