 More positive affirmations of Stein's sexuality began with her relationship with Alice B. Toklas.Ernest Hemingway describes how Alice was Gertrude's "wife" in that Stein rarely addressed his (Hemingway's) wife, and he treated Alice the same, leaving the two "wives" to chat.The more affirming essay "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" is one of the first homosexual revelation stories to be published.