Also showing on Saturday 27th November 2010
this film is sponsored by Age Concern Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin who are celebrating their 60th birthday!
Edie & Thea: a very long engagement will be shown as part of a double bill with For My Wife
“We’ve been dancing for 42 years…”
Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer’s very long engagement began back in 1965, at Greenwich Village restaurant Portofino… “where all the lesbians went for dinner.” They spent the whole night dancing – and Edie wore a hole in her stockings.
It was two years before they met again - and this time they didn’t say goodnight at the end of the evening.
Edie and Thea’s story is told via their own conversations, against a photographic slide show from infancy, to the day they met – and their marriage in 2007. Two soul mates that fell in love and danced with each other through four decades of work, life, loss and love – and plenty of great sex, apparently!
Lesbian life in Sixties New York was one lived firmly in the closet; meeting other women was often a clandestine affair in rough, Mafia-operated bars where police raids were common. It wasn’t until the Stonewall riots stormed along Christopher Street in 1969, and into the public consciousness, that the gay rights movement was born.
They decided to get married in Toronto in 2007 – by Canada’s first openly gay judge, Harvey Brownstone. As Edie proclaims: “Marriage represents the ultimate expression of love and commitment between two people. Everyone understands that!”
And the secret of their successful relationship? Clearly an enduring physical attraction, and a profound love and respect for each other.
This film will touch your heart, whatever your gender or sexuality. A love story that helps to explain the real meaning of 'engagement', and how richly rewarding and magical life can be when we open our hearts to fully give and receive love. As Edie so rightly says: “Don’t postpone joy.”
(based on a review by Gina Baska for Diva Magazine)
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