Lucie and Annie

- [Annie] Including everybody in the world.

- I lived in secrecy as a kid.

I don't want any other generation to have to live that way.

I want it to be better for those who come after us.

- [Annie] It's those economic differences, you know.

It's easy to think there isn't much diversity today, but there's a huge amount of economic diversity.

Here we go, I know!

- The greatest thing I've learned from Annie is about courage and integrity.

Annie, I think, is one of the most courageous people I've ever met, and also has an extraordinarily strong, ethical standard and base.

At the very beginning of our coming together, I said to her, "Will you marry me?"

I wanted her to feel that she was secure, and it was incredibly important to me that we'd be in this expansive place, that she had no sense that she needed to hide, or in any way be... have any sense of shame at all.

(insects chirping) (ground cover crunching) - So this is a commercial blueberry field.

So the little blueberries that you see here are the remnants of people coming in.

The traditional thing was to rake them.

This last season, they were coming in with these machines that looked like giant lawnmowers that were raking them, and that's the first time I've ever seen that.

So, there are a few blueberries left.

Lucy and I both have a very strong affinity for islands and mountains and coastline and being in the North, and Maine does all of that.

If I can get up on top of a mountain, and I can see the ocean, I am beyond happy.

- We wanted to be recognized and seen by other people.

We want our state to recognize us.

So marriage became my issue when we came together, because our relationship meant everything to me.

- So what I'm doing is I have, I think, six boxes of material that involve a number of non-discrimination campaigns and then two marriage campaigns, 2009 and 2012.

Once I've gone through things, then I'm going to cart them down and give them to the Queer Archives at the University of Southern Maine.

This is the great moment.

We were there!

That was fabulous.

- We are very visible, and we are really up on top of a hill where the whole world can see us in a way that means that we have to put ourselves out there and say, "This is where we are, and this is who we are, "and who I am as a human being "and who I am in relationship to Lucie "is valuable for myself and my community and for the world."

Lucie was doing this for decades before we got together, so that's a big chunk of what I've learned from her is being able to put this out there again and again and again.

Our ability to be legally married, those legal things, they parallel a much more important piece, which is the ability to be integrated into society as a whole and the ability to not be afraid.

- In the late 70s, when the gay movement started getting going, finally, I wasn't alone.

Every generation of activists, all of us, stand on the shoulders of people who went before, really brave people.

Those folks are in us.

Each generation takes over from the previous one and opens the door just a bit wider.

- Yeah, if I were reflecting on all of this, I think... - [Lucie] The teaching from all of this is just keep up and keep on doing it and keep on doing it.

It just takes time.

Never give up.

Things don't seem to be moving forward, but actually the dam will break.

(Annie and Lucie talking quietly)