At Evelyn’s wedding to Harry, Celia drinks heavily out of jealousy despite understanding the marriage is a façade. Evelyn frames the union as the beginning of their real family: Harry and John are in love, and Evelyn and Celia are euphoric. After returning from Italy, Evelyn and Harry sell their Beverly Hills homes and buy an Upper East Side apartment near Celia and John. Before moving, Evelyn confirms through Harry’s assistant that her estranged father died in 1959, a revelation that frees her to live in New York. She brings housekeeper Luisa to the new home.

Evelyn and Celia visit Evelyn’s old Hell’s Kitchen building, where Celia takes Evelyn’s hand in public to little notice. The four present themselves as two straight couples, earning the tabloids’ moniker “America’s Favorite Double-Daters,” even sparking swinger rumors—an irony Evelyn notes given their monogamous, queer reality.

In the wake of the Stonewall riots, Harry follows the news and John fields calls from friends downtown, while Celia insists they should join that night’s action. John and Evelyn oppose it, and Harry argues their celebrity would shift attention from rights to speculation about their sexuality. Instead, Harry proposes they contribute money. John offers to contact Peter to direct funds, and all four commit to ongoing, private financial support for LGBTQ groups, a strategy Evelyn continues for life despite conflicted feelings about hiding.

Evelyn reflects that while they publicly supported causes like civil rights and antiwar efforts, Stonewall felt uniquely personal. She rationalizes that her concealment enabled her to earn and donate significant sums, even as she struggles with the injustice of needing to hide.

In 1970, Celia wins her second Oscar for playing a woman who cross-dresses to fight in World War I in Our Men. Evelyn, filming Jade Diamond in Miami, cannot attend and knows she could not publicly accompany Celia anyway. During a late call, Evelyn ecstatically congratulates Celia, but drunk and hurt, Celia lashes out, accusing Evelyn of hiding and reducing her to “a nice pair of tits.” Celia immediately breaks down and apologizes; Evelyn ends the call, recognizing a familiar pattern in which Celia inflicts pain when she doesn’t get what she wants, while Evelyn’s bisexual identity and need for secrecy remain flashpoints between them.