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Contents:

• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY
• PLAYG SOFTBALL PROV YOU'RE GAY
• GAY LLEGE SOFTBALL PLAYER NAVIGAT AN ACCEPTG TEAM AND SILENT FAY
• SOME TRANS SOFTBALL PLAYERS ARE LLG FOR THE GAY WORLD SERI TO BE MOVED OM TEXAS
• BIG APPLE SOFTBALL LEAGUE IS A H WH GAY PLAYERS, ALLI
• SF GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE CELEBRAT 50 YEARS OF GIVG PLAYERS A HOME BASE
• TEAM USA SOFTBALL STAR HAYLIE MCCLENEY OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M OVER-THE-MOON HAPPY’

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

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.

Her supporters acced nservativ of tryg to damage her chanc by whisperg that she was gay. None of this particularly surprised a sport that has wrtled wh the issue — If you play, you’re probably gay —for s. “It is one of those ltle touchstone thgs, ” said Rosalyn Bugg, an official wh the Greater Los Angel Softball Assn., found as a slow-pch league for gays.

Several ach Southern California timate that more than 50% of the players were gay at the time. “I’ve never seen so many gay people my life, ” said Drabecki, who now ach at Burbank High. ” By then, the game had bee a central part of the culture, said Pat Griff, thor of “Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lbians and Homophobia Sport.

PLAYG SOFTBALL PROV YOU'RE GAY

” Gay women uld feel accepted at the ballpark. “Softball beg a phemism for homosexual is pretty funny, ” said Bugg, the recreatnal league official. “But not so funny to a lot of the women I play wh who are not homosexual.

GAY LLEGE SOFTBALL PLAYER NAVIGAT AN ACCEPTG TEAM AND SILENT FAY

” As straight players grew more worried about beg labeled gay, the gam took on a different look. “My straight teammat enuraged me almost more than my gay teammat to speak out, ” she said.

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

The immediate ditn is that they’re gay. ” “It’s the bone marrow of women’s sports, ” she said, “the whole issue that sports will turn you gay or sports have a disproportnate number of lbians.

” This dynamic leads to negative recg — llege ach tryg to fluence prospects by whisperg that rival programs are pervasively gay — and ncerns among parents. Informally, female softball players will wear a bow wh their uniform to show others that they are not bow/no bow ncept softball and other tradnally mascule sports such as soccer is homophobic. Wearg a bow to show others you are not gay is more like a tenncy rather than a hard and fast le.

This means that a softball player not wearg a bow is not always gay and a softball player wearg a bow is not always ’t wearg a bow softball mean you are a lbian?

BIG APPLE SOFTBALL LEAGUE IS A H WH GAY PLAYERS, ALLI

Not wearg a bow uld rult homophobic tntg, and you may hear negative terms such as “no bow lbo.

SF GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE CELEBRAT 50 YEARS OF GIVG PLAYERS A HOME BASE

”The bow/no bow nnectn wh sexual orientatnWhile is mon the softball muny to wear a bow to exprs that you are straight, that do not mean one’s sexual orientatn is pennt on clothg or example, a female softball player fettg to wear a bow or choosg not to wear a bow is not necsarily gay.

Likewise, a female softball player who always wears a bow wh her softball uniform is not necsarily the end, the only thg that affects whether or not you are homosexual is if you are sexually attracted to the same sex, not what you the bow/no bow ncept homophobic? The bow/no bow ncept softball and other tradnally mascule sports such as soccer n e across as homophobic. LGBTQ+ alli believe that what you wear shouldn’t terme your sexual preference, cludg a bow wh a softball term “no bow lbo” is a homophobic stereotype of female softball players.

TEAM USA SOFTBALL STAR HAYLIE MCCLENEY OUT AS GAY: ‘I’M OVER-THE-MOON HAPPY’

Fettg to wear a bow n rult homophobic tntg om like softball have a stigma around them when to the sexual orientatn of the players. This means that not every softball player who wears a bow is straight and not every player who don’t is gay.

This bow/no bow ncept is homophobic bee a person’s sexual orientatn should not be pennt on cisn to wear a bow wh your uniform or not is up to you.