'Every time now when I walk into a store I wonder, are they going to say something? Are they going to embarrass me?' She said, 'What are you?'' Wilker recalled. 'When she realized who they were for I could see that it was not going to happen. WASHINGTON – Cindy Wilker, a retired Marine who jokingly describes herself as an 'angry old lesbian,' isn’t easily offended – or pushed around.īut the 62-year-old Floridian was dumbstruck when a florist declined to sell her roses she hoped to buy for the woman she has loved for decades.
