Meet Vera Montague, George Montague’s Wife Of Over 20 Years Before Marrying A Man

Born in 1923, George Montague has seen many changes in his lifetime, few greater than the attitudes towards and legalities of homosexuality attitudes and laws that saw him persecuted and criminalized for the sin of loving another man. He first married a woman and had children with her before divorcing to remarry a man.

Meet Vera Montague, George Montague’s Wife Of Over 20 Years Before Marrying A Man

In one of his narratives, Vera Montague was a woman he respected so much because of how she understood him and accepted him like he was during the marriage. Speaking to The Argus back in 2013, he said he realized he was gay in his twenties when it was still illegal to be homosexual. However, he still married at age 37.

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