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Parsons, Betsy, Shanisa Rodriguez, Madison Leblanc
Parsons, Betsy, Shanisa Rodriguez, Madison Leblanc
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Betsy Parsons grew up in a Midwestern town in the 1960s and 1970’s in a middle class educated family active in the local community. Her father and mother were both teachers. Her mother and father met in Orono, Maine in English class before migrating to the Midwest. Parsons describes developing a love a teaching from her parents; she knew from a young age that she wanted to become a teacher herself and began teaching at Portland High School in 1977. She describes herself as a ‘late bloomer’ in terms of her sexuality; she didn’t come out to herself until her …