Polly Stewart was a folklorist who grew up in Salt Lake City and went on to teach college in Salisbury, Maryland.
She said she realized she was a Lesbian in the late 1970s and came out as gay in the 1990s.
Polly Stewart recently died from complications of cancer.
Producer Elaine Thatcher featured her story in December 2011 on Contemporary Western Women, a project of the USU Center for Women and Gender and Utah Public Radio.
You can read the obituary from the Salt Lake Tribune here.
Folklorist Polly Stewart Dies
