In June, 95-year-old former ball player Maybelle Blair me out publicly as gay. At a panel for the A League of Their Own seri at Framele, she shared about queer life the league.
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- THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN WAS TWO THIRDS GAY, SHAR 95-YEAR-OLD MAYBELLE BLAIR
- AMAZON’S ‘A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN’ SERI MAK LEAD CHARACTERS QUEER, BRGS BACK ROSIE O’DONNELL AS GAY BAR OWNER
THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN WAS TWO THIRDS GAY, SHAR 95-YEAR-OLD MAYBELLE BLAIR
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Rosie, she’s not gay.
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AMAZON’S ‘A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN’ SERI MAK LEAD CHARACTERS QUEER, BRGS BACK ROSIE O’DONNELL AS GAY BAR OWNER
’ She go, ‘No, she’s not gay. Fans watchg season 1 n look forward to O’Donnell appearg as Vi, an owner of a lol gay bar and a fan of the Rockford Peach, who cross paths wh Carson as well as some of her teammat. A League Of Their Own is one of those movi the gays have always adored.
But fabulo stg asi, there’s a eper reason why Penny Marshall’s 1992 film has endured for LGBTQ dienc spe not havg any explicly gay characters . (For her part, O’Donnell revealed that she thought of her character, Doris Murphy, as gay—and played her as such! You know, we gays we love a stume!
“[She went] om nervo to talk to about the gay stuff to g out publicly for the first time, ” said Field. When Maybelle Blair joed the women's baseball league that spired the film and TV seri A League of Their Own, she wonred if she'd be the only gay woman there. "Out of 650, I bet you 400 was gay" the All-Amerin Girls Profsnal Baseball League, Blair said at a recent screeng of the Amazon Studs seri at the Framele San Francis Internatnal LGBTQ+ Film Ftival.