Wives Rosie Geiser and Dottie Mathews are in both in their 70s and have been together since the 1990s.

They spoke about the importance of faith in their lives and in their relationship.

Alphabet Soup shares LGBTQ+ Missourians’ stories through portraiture and personal narratives.

Dottie Mathews: I was raised Catholic, and faith has been a part of my life, various forms of faith. I'm an ordained minister, retired now.

But the idea of being queer, even though I grew up in Los Angeles, was just not, it was nothing that entered my consciousness as available to me. I was always a tomboy, but I always also envisioned that I would get married as soon as I graduated high school, which was what people my age group did at that time, and I did.

I married a man and we divorced for very good reaso

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