Palm Sprgs Gay Softball League

Contents:

• MNEAPOLIS REGN TO HOST 2022 GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI
• GAY SOFTBALL BOSTON!
• WELE TO PALM SPRGS GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• GAY BROADSTER ERIC BACH ADVOT FOR MORE LGBTQ REPRENTATN BASEBALL
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

MNEAPOLIS REGN TO HOST 2022 GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI

30, 2020) – One of the largt annual gay sportg events the world will return to Mnota, as the Mneapolis regn secured the 2022 Gay Softball World Seri. The Tw Ci Goodtime Softball League, partnership wh Sports Mneapolis, won hostg rights after a prentatn to legat om the North Amerin Gay Amatr Athletic Alliance (NAGAAA) last weekend Columb, Oh. The 2022 Gay Softball World Seri will feature nearly 900 gam takg place at softball plex Mneapolis, as well as Burnsville, Eagan, Inver Grove Heights and South St.

“We are honored to brg the Gay Softball World Seri back to the Tw Ci 2022, ” said Greg Fed of the Tw Ci Goodtime Softball League who will serve as Executive Director of the newly formed Tw Ci Gay Softball World Seri Organizg Commtee. “Securg the 2022 Gay Softball World Seri is a very nice w for the Mneapolis regn. The Mnota Tws have also pledged their support, beg the first Major League Baseball team to partner wh the Gay Softball World Seri.

GAY SOFTBALL BOSTON!

We’re exced to help brg the Gay Softball World Seri to Mnota, ” said Miguel Ramos, Mnota Tws Senr Director of Diversy and Incln, who traveled to Columb to help prent the bid.

The 2022 edn of the Gay Softball World Seri will be the 46th nsecutive year of the event. Acrdg to the Tw Ci Gay Softball World Seri Organizg Commtee, is expected to brg 5, 000 visors and approximately $7 ln to the lol enomy.

WELE TO PALM SPRGS GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE

The Tw Ci Goodtime Softball League was found 1979 when a group of gay men challenged the Mneapolis Police Department to a chary game. Members of this league will form the lol anizg mtee for the 2022 Gay Softball World Seri.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

MEDIA CONTACTSGreg Fed, Executive Director, Tw Ci Gay Softball World Seri Organizg Commtee, 612-239-4216, gregtcgsl@gmail. Gay Softball Boston! Found 1978, the Beantown Softball League is the largt athletic anizatn open to gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and heterosexual people New England.

Palm Sprgs Gay Softball League.

The league has a new addrs:Palm Sprgs Gay Softball LeagueP O Box 4667Palm Sprgs CA 92263-4667. 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.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Thanks for stoppg by the Columb Lbian and Gay Softball Associatn (CLGSA) webse.

CLGSA is one of the largt gay softball associatns the Midwt. Columb Lbian & Gay Softball Associatn. DENVER SOFTBALLABOUT USAs the only NAGAAA-affiliated softball league Colorado, the Denver Area Softball League (DASL) is dited to the promotn of amatr softball for all dividuals regardls of age, race, creed, relign, sex, or natnal orig, wh special emphasis placed on the participatn of members of the gay/lbian muny of the Denver UsLEAGUE ANNOUNCEMENTSGOOD LUCK TO THE 2022 GSWS.

855 S Platte River Dr, Denver, CO 80223Field LotnMeet The BoardMikeCommissner & NAGAAA ReprentativeWillSecretaryBethAssistant Commissner - WomenStacieMember at Large - WomenThomasAssistant Commissner - OpenNoahMember at Large - OpenKat TreasurerBoard of DirectorsRMRUWHAT ISThe North Amerin Gay Amatr Athletic Alliance (NAGAAA) was created 1977 to be a non-prof, ternatnal anizatn prised of men and women dited to promotg amatr athletics specifilly for the gay and lbian muny.

GAY BROADSTER ERIC BACH ADVOT FOR MORE LGBTQ REPRENTATN BASEBALL

NAGAAA was formed to enurage and promote the participatn of gay men and women anized softball petn. In s annual sprg meetgs, ually held Febary, NAGAAA rms member ci of upg tournaments among s membership, paramount amongst the tournaments is the Gay Softball World Seri (GSWS) held each year a different member cy of NAGAAA. McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals.

Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized. He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly. It was bil and ugly, filled wh “every gay slur you uld thk of, ” Bach said.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster.

As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport. McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

”)He began to accept that he was gay durg his sophomore year of high school, but wh that acceptance me worry.

As a multisport athlete, Bach was often locker rooms filled wh chos of homophobic slurs and gay jok. ’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed. He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one.

“I was sually like, ‘You know I’m gay, right? That uncertaty mak him feel self-nsc a way he believ is mon for gay people mostly straight spac. “I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them.

The environment is not hostile, but Bach never fets that he is the only openly gay person the room. Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy. Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned.

In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done. The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L.