They lost their church communities if the church knew, and kept everything to do with their jobs secret.'Īllen used her lens to reflect a more accurate reality - a positive, beautiful, even celebratory picture of a person who had finally found herself. There were many debates about telling their children, and if yes, at what age. When/if they told their wives, many marriages ended in divorce. 'Some thought they were crazy and bad, guilty, unworthy. 'Many people I met at that time thought they were the only person in the world that was 'that way,'' Allen said.
