Gay Ball - The Stranger

Contents:

• 250 TEAMS ARRIVE FOR NAGAAA GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI DALLAS
• 2022 GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI RCHLED
• DALLAS WEL GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI, LIVE STREAM ANNOUNCED
• TEXAS RANGERS HELP SPONSOR THIS YEAR’S GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI DALLAS
• GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI RETURNS TO COLUMB FOR THIRD TIME SCE 2010
• GAY BALL
• GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI COLUMB 2021
• GAY WORLD SERI IS HEAD TO DALLAS
• 13 INDY MEN ARE HEAD TO GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI. ONE SAYS 'THIS TEAM SAVED MY LIFE'
• SOME TRANS SOFTBALL PLAYERS ARE LLG FOR THE GAY WORLD SERI TO BE MOVED OM TEXAS
• LGBT SPORTS HISTORY: FIRST GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI BUTS THE ERA OF DIS
• GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI STEPS UP TO THE PLATE FOR FIRST TIME TWO YEARS

250 TEAMS ARRIVE FOR NAGAAA GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI DALLAS

One of the largt annual gay sportg events the world will soon be returng to Mnota. The Tw Ci Goodtime Softball League has won s bid to host the 2023 Gay Softball World Seri at var s the metro area. The Lol Organizg Commtee, partnership wh Sports Mneapolis, prented s bid wh the theme “Light Up The North” to legat om the North Amerin Gay Amatr Athletic Alliance who ns the annual event.

“Securg the 2023 Gay Softball World Seri is a very nice w for the Mneapolis regn. Each year, NAGAAA partners wh a Host Cy to liver the Gay Softball World Seri (GSWS) — the largt annual, LGBT sgle-sport, week-long athletic petn the world. The next NAGAAA Gay Softball World Seri will be held om Augt 28th through September 3rd, 2023 Mneapolis, MN.

Click here for the gallery of photos om the 2022 Gay Softball World Seri (GSWS), urty of Larry Barthel (Triquetra Productns). You uld be prosecuted, you uld be harmed and killed for beg gay, lose your job. The Gay Softball World Seri is "the largt annual, LGBT sgle-sport, week-long athletic petn the world.

2022 GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI RCHLED

Wele to the official se for the North Amerin Gay Amatr Athletic Alliance (NAGAAA). Currently, more than 17,000 players om 52 ci across Canada and the Uned Stat participate member leagu, and the bt of the teams nverge once a year for head-to-head petn at the annual Gay Softball World Seri. Mneapolis (May 29, 2020) – The North Amerin Gay Amatr Athletic Alliance (NAGAAA) has announced s cisn to shift the 2020 Gay Softball World Seri (GSWS), origally schled to take place this Augt Columb, to 2021.

DALLAS WEL GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI, LIVE STREAM ANNOUNCED

The 2023 Gay Softball World Seri will take place late Augt/early September. MEDIA CONTACTSGreg Fed, Executive Director, Tw Ci Gay Softball World Seri Organizg Commtee, 612-239-4216, gregtcgsl@gmail.

Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Omar Narvaez and other cy officials weled the North Amerin Gay Amatr Athletic Alliance to Dallas for the 45th Gay Softball World Seri that tak place Dallas throughout this week.

Narvaez remd everyone that Dallas is the only cy wh s own official Pri flag and that last term there were three openly gay members of the Dallas Cy Council. Contug one of the longt nng tradns LGBTQ sports, the 2022 edn of the Gay Softball World Seri menc Dallas this week wh the Openg Ceremoni on Monday and divisn play begng the next day.

TEXAS RANGERS HELP SPONSOR THIS YEAR’S GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI DALLAS

Given the history and prtige of the Gay Softball World Seri, ’s easy to see why the Rangers would support . As a member of NAGAAA, Mid-Atlantic Amatr Softball Associatn participat the Gay Softball World Seri held each year one of the member ci across the US and Canada. The Gay Softball World Seri is ually held the end of Augt/ begng of September and is home to great softball petn!

GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI RETURNS TO COLUMB FOR THIRD TIME SCE 2010

“We don’t do well when we get really tense, ” said Nate Fletcher, who has played on the gay softball team om Philalphia sce 2016. The North Amerin Gay Amatr Athletic Alliance aniz seri Columb is playg host to the large annual event for the third time sce 2010 this week wh more than 230 teams the North Amerin Gay Amatr Athletic Alliance – the erng body for gay softball – g om 47 different event, which brgs thoands of players and spectators, is expected to brg $11 ln to the cy, acrdg to timat om the Greater Columb Sports played four round-rob gam earlier the week and were slated to start a double-elimatn tournament Thursday to crown champns seven different divisns by Saturday.

GAY BALL

“As gay dividuals, when we e out, we’re not always accepted every space, " Riddle said. Many softball gam across the untry were nceled durg that time, cludg last year's Gay Softball World Seri, which was supposed to be Columb.

Lou Berler Park's 31 fields has ma Columb a favore for the Gay Softball World Seri But the natnal associatn didn’t want to skip over the Oh cy, even wh host s chosen a few years advance.

GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI COLUMB 2021

” Speers, his hband, participatg his 30th Gay Softball World Seri, has played baseball and softball all his life, but he said he didn’t fd te belongg until he joed this league. The 2008 Gay Softball World Seri was unr way, an alternate universe of petive sports that mov each year to a different cy, brgg wh nearly 200 gay softball teams om across the Uned Stat and Canada, as well as thoands of spectators. For the Seattle world seri, the San Francis Gay Softball Associatn, one of the olst gay softball clubs the Uned Stat, sent a team that lled self D2.

They'd been together for some time, but so far the bt they'd ever done at the Gay Softball World Seri was place fourth. On Augt 30, 2008, havg sailed through the early rounds of petn at the Seattle Gay Softball World Seri, D2 found self the semifals.

D2 was cheatg, the mors went, and dog so a way that is unique to the world of anized gay sports. The accatn, which end up spawng a feral lawsu that uld change the way gay sports are played around the untry, was simple and yet very hard to prove: D2 was fieldg too many heterosexual players.

GAY WORLD SERI IS HEAD TO DALLAS

The North Amerin Gay Amatr Athletic Alliance, which puts on the Gay Softball World Seri, was found the 1970s by gay players San Francis and New York seekg to promote a safe and separate space for gay softball.

13 INDY MEN ARE HEAD TO GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI. ONE SAYS 'THIS TEAM SAVED MY LIFE'

It wasn't until 1993, as harned cultural animosi toward gays were begng to crack, that the flat-out ban on straight people loosened. A new le was adopted: Two straight players per team were allowed durg the Gay Softball World Seri. Melani and I were seated across the table om each other at Sndals, a gay bar Portland, as he told me about this evolutn.

SOME TRANS SOFTBALL PLAYERS ARE LLG FOR THE GAY WORLD SERI TO BE MOVED OM TEXAS

He pch for a gay team known as the Portland Brewers, and he apologized advance for the way he speaks—explosive emotn, choppg hand gtur—sayg 's a batn of his passn for gay sports and his Italian herage. He went on: "There was one time, a few years ago, where we spl a double hear wh a straight team—they were ready to take baseball bats and e to blows bee we were gay. This is one of the many hard-to-duplite experienc that e wh playg on a gay sports team, this opportuny to humble—and enrage—straight people who aren't ed to gays beg good at sports.

Even our quickly shiftg culture, gay people still face discrimatn and hostily, still spend a certa amount of time crisscrossg the divi between explicly queer spac and domantly heterosexual spac. Partly bee of this, for many the gay muny there's still a powerful pull toward moments, like the Gay Softball World Seri, which that kd of divi-crossg gets put on extend pse.

The problem —as NAGAAA is now fdg out feral urt—when a group of people tri to fend queer space by enforcg a lim on exactly how many non-gay people n be clud. ) The NCLR is mandg unspecified moary damag for the "emotnal distrs" suffered by s clients—scribed urt documents as "vivid flashbacks, " "loss of sleep, " and feelgs of "huiatn, embarrassment, and anger"—pl a natnwi junctn agast enforcement of the two-straight-players-per-team lim at the Gay Softball World Seri. It's taken the unual step, part, bee has a profoundly different sense of the current culture—and what's required to fend gay space—than Melani's anizatn do.

LGBT SPORTS HISTORY: FIRST GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI BUTS THE ERA OF DIS

"The l are a legacy of an olr time, " Stoll said, speakg of the two-straight- players-per-team p at the Gay Softball World Seri. Today, a le that lims participatn based on sexual orientatn jt isn't necsary to have a gay sports league, or any kd of gay-iendly space.

Across the world of gay sports, there is wi divergence on how to handle straight players. This summer, Vanuver, BC, will play host to the North Ameri Outgam, an Olympics-style petn volvg gay teams petg agast each other soccer, swimmg, hockey, volleyball, nng, mounta bikg, badmton, golf, poker, and, y, softball. That's a very different policy than at the Gay Softball World Seri or the Natnal Gay Flag Football League, which also lims the number of straight players allowed on a team to 20 percent.

" All the D2 players waed outsi as, one by one, their teammat were brought before a panel posed of lears the natnal gay softball associatn. Then someone on the Prott Commtee read me NAGAAA's fn of 'homosexual, ' and I was asked whether that fn fed me.

GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI STEPS UP TO THE PLATE FOR FIRST TIME TWO YEARS

Apilado, who is Ain Amerin and Filipo, had been troduced to the gay softball world when his brother ved him to play on his team. He was led "non-gay" by the tribunal and claims that until the hearg, "I had never disclosed my sexual orientatn to anybody. Charl, who is Ain Amerin, said that when he, too, profsed bisexualy, one of the NAGAAA board members the room told him, "This is the Gay World Seri, not the Bisexual World Seri.