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According to contemporary George Lott, a player and later tennis coach at DePaul University, and authoritative biographer Frank Deford, Tilden never made advances to players, whether other adults or his pupils.
Art Anderson of Burbank, who took lessons from Tilden from the age of eleven and remained a lifelong loyal friend, reported nothing of Tilden's sexual advances “ Bill had all the rumors floating around about his sexuality ,” Jack Kramer said.
Questions remain if Tilden's prosecution was based on the rumors, many published, and heterosexual biases of the time.
California did not repeal its sodomy law until 1976.
Because he lived in an era when homosexual sex was illegal and was not tolerated socially, some suspect that Tilden was a victim of the homophobic society of the era.
More shocking than Tilden's being caught was the revelation that " sports and homosexuality were not mutually exclusive ".

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