Loraine Sumner

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  • Date Range: 1955-1975
  • Collection Summary:
  • Description: Loraine's home movies of her daughter Debbie.
  • Biographical/Historical Note: See collection level, Biographical/Historical Notes.
    On April 19, 1958, Loraine Sumner gave birth to her daughter Debbie. She'd been out that night with a softball team she played with that year, the Dynamos. Had changed a tired, she recalled. The birth took place at a Florence Crittenton Home. She persuaded her parents to let Debbie and her live in her childhood bedroom for a time after she had to leave the Crittenton home, got a night job at the Walter Baker Chocolate company to make enough money to rent a real home for Debbie, got jobs at summer camps so Debbie could attend them and they could spend their days in the same place, changed the softball team she coached, the South Shore Esquirettes, into a less rigorous schedule.

    From that day forward, Sumner did everything she could to arrange her life so that she could take care of Debbie.
  • Genres: Home Movies
  • Subjects: Lesbian mothers, Single Mothers
  • Places: Milton, Massachusetts; Hingham, Massachusetts; Abington, Massachusetts
  • Creators: Loraine Sumner
  • Collaborators & Participants: For further information or if you or friends took part in this event, be great if you emailed us at info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org & let us know. We'll share your input if that's okay, or just preserve it.
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  • Access & Use: Contact Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) info@lesbianhomemovieproject.org. No re-use without permission. LHMP must contact film donor & participants with regard to any re-use.
  • Rights: Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) holds all rights. Donor must approve all uses.
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  • Preferred Citation: "Debbie," Loraine Sumner Collection, Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP).