{"id":1300,"date":"2025-05-07T15:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T20:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/austin\/?page_id=1300"},"modified":"2025-05-07T15:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T20:32:18","slug":"remembering-tom-doyal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/austin\/remembering-tom-doyal\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Tom Doyal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-af1f619baf8d34ed4d7902d319272c03 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1945 to 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tom Doyal, long time member of Austin Prime Timers (since 1991) and good friend to many of us, passed away on March 29, 2025. Tom was such an important part of Austin&#8217;s LGBTQ community. In 1986, he started Liberty Books, the lesbian and gay community bookstore. That was such an advance for Austin. He also started a publishing company called Liberty Press. And he was the attorney for the Gay Rights Lobby and an attorney in private practice. And he was partners with Dr Tom Smith. For years he was THE gay attorney for our city and helped many with wills and estate planning. He was often the featured speaker on panels about the legal issues of being LGBTQ. In 2023, at the Thirty-fifth Anniversary Dinner, Prime Timers presented its one-time Liberty Award to Tom Doyal for a life of service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f82f824cf992bddfc9b070d6eb8084b5 wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ErLmW3rbAZ4?si=_AHRCuc5je0JRxJ-\">Video Remembering Tom<\/a><\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ce182ffc726a6c7e8250bebf5ba1cd84 wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/austin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2025-Tom-Doyal.pdf\"><strong>Momentum articles Remembering Tom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2b48348f55322a688872bb443f8d0071 wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/obituaries\/paco1136590\"><strong>Obituary for Tom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-50639698ba0cf38edc72378ed8ecd628 wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chapters.theprimetimersww.com\/austin\/mambo-panties-2\/\"><strong>Mambo Panties and Other Stories by Tom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1945 to 2025 Tom Doyal, long time member of Austin Prime Timers (since 1991) and good friend to many of us, passed away on March 29, 2025. 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