When she was 37, Edie Daly came out as a lesbian. It was 1974“We would have both lost our jobs,” Daly says, referring to her first female partner. “She would have lost her children, for sure, because they were foster kids through the Jewish Child Care Association. And my kids — my husband could have made a big stink and taken them away from me. It was not an easy time. It was very scary.”
