sigh duckie I miss my granddads... and I think it's sad ppl would just label them "old white men" and not see how good they were, even ahead of their time... like my grandparents set the policy at our tennis club that gay partners could get family memberships, I remember it at least in the early 90s
and this tennis umpire for the tournaments died suddenly and she was estranged from her family for being gay and so my grandparents decided to plan n host her funeral at the club and her chosen tennis community was there tho her family wasn't...
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Reply · May 7, 2023and like, the laws back then weren't friendly to lgbt ppl and my family's tennis club WAS because as a private facility we could set our own policies…Reply · Dec 18, 2021@RokoMijic Fwiw, both granddads were in the military in the 50s, probably contributed to their racial tolerance.Reply · Dec 18, 2021@RokoMijic Yep... my dad's mom set policy that a "family membership" at our small biz included gay couples but not roommates, long before this was…Reply · Sep 11, 2022@dantawfik @jeremymstamper Lmao it really really is… I grew up working at my family’s tennis club… when we’d host tournaments I’d sometimes have to…