Ruthie Berman: The Pioneering Lesbian Shares Her Epic Love Story
Ruthie Berman was in her 40s when she kissed her best friend, Connie Kurtz, for the first time. This was the 1970s, both married to men, both mothers, both members of the same, small Jewish community in Brooklyn.
But Berman felt something she realized she'd never felt before: she was falling head-over-heels in love. "I was in another world.
I was in another space in the way I was behaving. It was totally different than anything I had experienced."After the kiss, Berman asked her, "Can't you do better than that?" They kissed again and they kept kissing for the next forty years."There was a connection that was extraordinary.
It wasn't only a loving connection. It was a political connection. It was a private connection. It was knowing each other's families.
