Netflix’s ‘A Secret Love’ Is a Must Watch

Last updated: April 30, 2020 8:14 AM

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Get to ready to be moved while watching this amazing Netflix documentary. A Secret Love explores the partnership between two women who lived, in public and to kin, as dear friends for six decades.

Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel came together in a different world.

The women fell in love in 1947, when norms around living openly as a gay person in the United States were far from what they are today. Though essentially inseparable from the moment they met, Donahue and Henschel kept their true relationship a secret for more than six decades. To family and coworkers, they were simply good friends and roommates; others knew them as cousins who lived together.

The couple’s remarkable journey and their eventual decision to come out late in life is movingly captured in the upcoming documentary A Secret Love. Directed by Donahue’s great-nephew, Chris Bolan, the film is set to arrive on Netflix on April 29 as part of a slate of projects coming to the streaming service from the writer and producer Ryan Murphy.

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They say there's no crying in baseball, but I was emotional from the second I started working with director Chris Bolan and producers Alexa Fogel, Brendan Mason and Jason Blum on "A Secret Love," out tomorrow on NETFLIX. I am so so proud of this work, which examines the 60-year love story of Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel. Terry and Pat are true pioneers and instant icons, and it's an honor to be able to tell their hopeful epic story.

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