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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AMAZON’S ‘A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN’ SERI MAK LEAD CHARACTERS QUEER, BRGS BACK ROSIE O’DONNELL AS GAY BAR OWNER
“[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. Blair, who was a pcher for the league's Peoria Redwgs 1948 and later played pro softball, me out publicly when the seri premiered at the Tribe Film Ftival days before the Framele reunted that when she fell love wh a girl high school, "I thought we were the only two the world that were gay. There were so many gays the league.
"On our days off, we found the gay bars, and we danced, and we had one heck of a party that wouldn't end, " she praised the LGBTQ-clive nature of the new seri, created by Abbi Jabson and Will Graham. You me out and told people you were gay.