Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall Paperback – July 11, 2012
by St. Sukie de la Croix
Queer Places:
2821 N Pine Grove Ave, Chicago, IL 60657, Stati Uniti
Camp Butler National Cemetery
Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, USA
Bertha Louise Baker Isaacs (June 7, 1915 - January 27, 1995) was a professor at Northwestern University medical school. In the 1940s Blossom Churan fell into the arms of Doctor Bertha Isaacs. Not wanting to lose the love of her life, Pearl M. Hart proposed the three of them live together, so in 1947 she and Isaacs bought a property at 2821 North Pine Grove, where the three resided for thirty years. According to Valerie Taylor, the three lived “a rather gothic existence” until Churan’s death in 1973. Taylor wrote: “Neighbors saw three aging women, two with successful careers, one who stayed at home. Out-of-town relatives or friends stayed in nearby hotels. They kept their lives compartmentalized.” As Churan became more frail, she was less interested in sex and “leaned on Pearl as she had in the beginning.”
The love of Hart’s life, Jessamine Blossom Churan, died in October 1973 after a protracted illness; Bertha Isaacs died in 1995.
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