Stars Abbi Jabson and Chante Adams and origal player Maybelle Blair chat wh The Advote for our digal ver story about makg the gayt, most clive League yet.
Contents:
- THEY FALLY MA ‘A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN’ GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THE REMARKABLE NEW SERI
- CONCERT REVIEW: WA, PEACH IS A GAY IN?
THEY FALLY MA ‘A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN’ GAY: INSI THE MAKG OF THE REMARKABLE NEW SERI
”“A lot of people who love the movie—gay people, straight people— didn’t dawn on them until they’ve thought of as an adult, ” says D’Arcy Carn (The Good Place), who -stars.
“And then they’re like, well, of urse they were gay! Apparently, when O’Donnell was meetg wh Marshall about the film and her character, the brash, spfire third basewoman Doris, she bluntly told Marshall: Doris is obvly gay.
CONCERT REVIEW: WA, PEACH IS A GAY IN?
It’s a validatn of the experienc of the real-life women; Maybelle Blair, for example, the player who served as the spiratn for Carn’s character, Greta, me out as gay jt this year at age 95, spired by workg as a nsultant on the seri. ”Gog back to the naive a-ha moment that the characters the 1992 film were probably a ltle gay, we start talkg about the 2020 Netflix documentary A Secret Love, which was produced by Ryan Murphy. Donahue was a year to her four-season reer the AAGPBL, though was not yet aware of her fact, as Donahue rells the doc, she and another baseball player were so worried about gay women the league g onto them at the time, they would barri themselv si their room at night, blockg the door wh a chair.
And while Chigo may have been more progrsive than Saskatchewan, was still the 1940s, when arrts om raids of unrground gay clubs or public outgs of homosexualy newspapers ed peopl' liv on the they had each other, Donahue and Henschel rarely ventured to such venu. They formed a small muny wh other gay upl and ultimately settled to a hoe St. "There was speculatn over the years, our fay had ternal nversatns wonrg if they [were gay], " says Bolan, whose mother, Diana, a proment figure the documentary, was so close to Terry she nsired her more of a mother figure than nt.
Were they gay, were they lbian? "I thk a lot of the baseball players were gay, but maly they kept very quiet, jt away om the public, " says Henschel, who traveled wh Donahue's team for a uple weeks 1949, and regularly attend rnns wh her more recent s.