{"id":176632359,"date":"2017-06-29T22:54:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T22:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squashword.ussquash.com\/?p=176632359"},"modified":"2017-06-29T19:54:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T19:54:32","slug":"love-is-love-is-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=176632359","title":{"rendered":"Love is Love is Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My article in the June issue of <em>Squash Magazine<\/em> on Jenny Duncalf &amp; Rachael Grinham probably got as much global attention as any feature I have done in the past twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/squashmagazine.ussquash.com\/2017\/05\/love-is-love-is-love-jenny-duncalf-rachael-grinham-champions-on-court-pioneers-off-court\/<\/p>\n<p>With the help of Laurelle Holley and Chris McClintick at US Squash, Nathan Clarke at the PSA and Howard Harding at the World Squash Federation, the story went viral. For a couple of days it was trending pretty high in social media: thousands of retweets and likes and shares and impressions. \u00a0Jenny and Rachael did interviews. Articles started to appear.<\/p>\n<p>PSA: https:\/\/psaworldtour.com\/news\/view\/4768\/duncalf-grinham-become-first-openly-gay-professional-squash-players-after-revealing-relationship<\/p>\n<p>Pink News:\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2017\/05\/26\/world-squash-champions-come-out-as-gay-and-reveal-they-are-a-couple\/\">http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2017\/05\/26\/world-squash-champions-come-out-as-gay-and-reveal-they-are-a-couple\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"\">Inside The Games:\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.insidethegames.biz\/articles\/1051152\/grinham-and-duncalf-become-first-openly-gay-professional-squash-players\">http:\/\/www.insidethegames.biz\/articles\/1051152\/grinham-and-duncalf-become-first-openly-gay-professional-squash-players<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Gay News Europe:\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/gaynewseurope.com\/en\/2017\/05\/29\/world-squash-champions-came-out-as-a-lesbian-couple\/\">http:\/\/gaynewseurope.com\/en\/2017\/05\/29\/world-squash-champions-came-out-as-a-lesbian-couple\/<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What was most gratifying, saddening and inspiring were two responses from other gay squash players. It was so powerful to read Jonathan MacBride-Young in Edinburgh writing about how long he had waited for a professional player to come out. &#8220;I have played squash for twenty-eight years. It\u2019s my sport. I love it. I play, I coach, I referee, I encourage others to play my sport. I didn\u2019t have a role model for me as a gay man in squash. Today I do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also had the best line: &#8220;<strong>Just like the buses, you wait ages for one to come along and then two come along at once.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/leapsports.org\/blog\/world-squash-a-journey-to-diversity<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The other response was from Alexia Clonda, the Australian former world No.5:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/squashmad.com\/breaking-news\/the-fear-of-coming-out-alexia-clonda-reveals-the-pain-she-endured-on-tour\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My article in the June issue of Squash Magazine on Jenny Duncalf &amp; Rachael Grinham probably got as much global attention as any feature I have done in the past twenty years. http:\/\/squashmagazine.ussquash.com\/2017\/05\/love-is-love-is-love-jenny-duncalf-rachael-grinham-champions-on-court-pioneers-off-court\/ With the help of Laurelle Holley and Chris McClintick at US Squash, Nathan Clarke at the PSA and Howard Harding at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=176632359\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Love is Love is Love<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176632359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176632359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176632359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176632359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176632359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176632359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176632359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}