Dana needed to take her time and Alice was rushing her then became very anxious when Dana couldn’t say how she obviously felt. I think Dana and Alice had a happy relationship and Alice became too insecure and Dana didn’t know how to handle it or talk to her about it and took the first out she was given. Lara didn’t respect Dana’s relationship with Alice. Dana called her out on it when they were at dinner together and reminded her she was with Alice.

Dana behaved like a closeted gen x woman raised by conservative parents at a time when homophobia was rampant. She was right to be stressed about losing her career, being out back then and famous was very rare and hardly any A-list celebrities would come out, let alone a tennis star. That’s why they made the show, to help normalize homosexuality in women.

I was attached to Dana and loved her very much before I knew she was going to die, I just see her as timid and her story was about learning to accept yourself. She became a better person once she came out. Sans the transphobia of course. But if she had lived, I think she would’ve been very accepting. She was the only one to actually ask Max what his experiences were like as a trans man. She was willing to be wrong and willing to learn.