Beryll Taylor and Tessie Rogers
Recorded
January 28, 2020
48:10 minutes
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Id:
ddd001858
Description
Beryll Taylor (73) speaks to her wife, Tessie Field Rogers (69), about how they first met. The two reflect on their childhoods growing up in Georgia and retiring to the Gulfport, FL area. They got married a few years ago in California, before gay marriage was legalized nationwide.Subject Log / Time Code
Beryll Taylor (BT) remembers meeting Tessie Field Rogers (TFR) for the first time.
BT and TFR talk about being in love and the difficulty of that time.
"We made a very good salary," TFR says, reflecting on how lucky she felt to be financially stable as a gay woman.
BT remembers taking a family trip to Hawaii.
TFR talks about growing up in Savannah, GA. Her family moved to an island. TFR tells a story about getting rescued by the Coast Guard when she was around 13 years old.
"We get to play more now than we used to," BT says.
BT and TFR moved to the Gulfport area in the last few years.
Participants
- Beryll Taylor
- Tessie Rogers