Opinion: nprscottsimon reflects on some of the aunties and uncles who helped raise him, who would've benefited from the historic victory for LGBTQ people delivered by the Supreme Court this week.
People gather at the historic Stonewall Inn to celebrate the LGBTQ Supreme Court victory on June 15, 2020.People gather at the historic Stonewall Inn to celebrate the LGBTQ Supreme Court victory on June 15, 2020.A man I called Uncle Jim showed me how to tie a tie. The day I was going to graduate from 8th grade, he saw me in a white shirt with a yellow clip-on bow tie, shook his head, and went to his apartment to bring back one of his own dark blue neckties.
Uncle Jim worked in men's furnishings. Uncle Gene, who smoked a pipe, was a window designer. When I had to draw a map for class of what the world looked like to Magellan and Vasco de Gama, Gene showed me how to dapple it with drips of tea, to make my map look like old parchment. Uncle Leo was a floorwalker in the store, and showed me how to shine shoes, saying,"Clean before you shine. You can't shine dirt," advice I now think of as wise for life, too.
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