Gay,Lesbian late-bloomers Blossum with Same-sex Partners

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http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2011/06/gay-lesbian-late-bloomers-blossom-with-same-sex-partners.html


When Vicki Brail divorced her husband of 20 years, the Kendall mother of two assumed her next partner would be male. Then she met psychotherapist Jeanne Covert.

“It was very strange to say the least. I started having this flirtatious relationship with her,” recalled Brail, now 65. “All my friends said this is very exciting. I used to see my friends for lunch and they would say it was like we were 16. I assumed this would be some midlife-crisis affair. We’ve been together since 1992.”

Brail’s story, along with many other older gays and lesbians, closely mirrors the film Beginners, which opens Friday in South Florida. Christopher Plummer stars as a 75-year-old father newly out of the closet, to the confusion of his grown son, played by Ewan McGregor.