We Go Way Back
While on the Cape this weekend I pulled out some of my parents’ old photo albums. My mom wanted to learn how to scan photos (weddings, etc…) into her computer so Randy was kind enough to show her. While they were busy doing that, I started flipping through albums with pictures of my Mom as a child after the Hurricane of 1938, and on vacations to various places.
Then I stumbled upon a black and white photo from the 1950’s of a slender “handsome” woman with her arm wrapped around another woman. There were other photos of her by herself (in a bikini top in a pool, standing next to a tree) but this one photo made my gaydar go off.
I asked my mother who it was and she said it was a cousin of hers…who was openly gay…back in the 1940’s and 1950’s! The woman with her was her lover of many years. And this was apparently fine with the extended family who would pack up their kids and go and spend vacations with her and her lover down in Florida.
It made me happy to hear that. Although, I have no idea what the family said behind her back (if anything)…but I was relieved to hear of such tolerance in the family even 60 years ago (and also happy to find out I’m not the only one in the family).
When my mother wasn’t looking, I swiped the photo of her with her arm wrapped around her lover and stuck it in my wallet. Maybe I’ll try scanning it tonight (it’s a bit dark, unfortunately) and try to post it here tomorrow.
In other news, Mike popped by last night to finally pick up the art he purchased in Provincetown over the summer (I’d picked it up for him in September when I went down). Anyway, he arrived and we chatted for a while when I suddenly realized that his shirt looked familiar. That’s beacuse it was MINE! It must have gotten mixed up while doing laundry in Paris and it ended up in his luggage. It was just a coincidence that he wore it the same day he popped by my place unexpectedly. I made him take it off and give it to me right then and there (I’m such a bitch) and gave him one of my $.077 Old navy t-shirts from this past weekend.
It was a nice Zara shirt – I wanted it back!
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You made him take it off right then and there . . . what goes on in that apartment? 😉
Hey, if it’s Zara, it’s coming off wherever you are. Lucky for him he wasn’t wearing your pants.
You are such a ripe fruit! I love it.
…”right then and there”… – I like your style.
OH…I should clarify: there was NOTHING sexual involved with my shirt return request. I just wanted my shirt back!