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- SF GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE CELEBRAT 50 YEARS OF G SPORTS TO CREATE A SENSE OF MUNY
- WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
- ‘FEEL SAFE, BE YOURSELF’: PNEERG S.F. GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE TURNS 50
- WHY THE FIRST GAY OLYMPICS WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT SPORTS
- SAN FRANCIS FOG GAY GBY CLUB BUILDG MUNY, EXPANDG HORIZONS OF SPORTS
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- SF GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE CELEBRAT 50 YEARS OF GIVG PLAYERS A HOME BASE
- LGBT SPORTS HISTORY: FIRST GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI BUTS THE ERA OF DIS
- NFL STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US PROFSNAL SPORTS
SF GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE CELEBRAT 50 YEARS OF G SPORTS TO CREATE A SENSE OF MUNY
The sports world has historilly not been the most clive wh the LGBTQ+ muny, but San Francis's Varsy Gay League is changg that. * san francisco gay sports *
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WELE TO THE ‘GAY GAM,’ AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE OLYMPICS, WHERE ACTIVISM IS ENURAGED AND EVERYONE’S AN ATHLETE
Tom Wadll, an athlete the 1968 Olympics, created the Gay Gam first held 1982 to celebrate LGBTQ cln. The Gay Gam are still held to this day wh the next round schled for 2022 Hong Kong. * san francisco gay sports *
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‘FEEL SAFE, BE YOURSELF’: PNEERG S.F. GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE TURNS 50
For 50 years, the San Francis Gay Softball League has taken over diamonds across the cy the sprg, givg generatns of queer athlet a place to play. * san francisco gay sports *
Big Gay Frisbee. In 2023, Openg Day is pecially signifint for the Bay Area LGBTQ muny as kicks off the 50th anniversary of the San Francis Gay Softball League.
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WHY THE FIRST GAY OLYMPICS WAS A WATERSHED MOMENT SPORTS
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After beg n out of Major League Baseball by homophob like Tommy Lasorda and Billy Mart, Glenn Burke rtarted his reer on the diamond and beme a lol folk hero wh tape-measure home ns and jaw-droppg fense for the SFGSL’s Pendulum Pirat. Meanwhile, Gay Gam -founr Rikki Streicher also showed off her athletic prows on the fields of the Gay Softball League.
Years later as the AIDS crisis explod, the toll on San Francis’s gay populatn uld be seen on the SFGSL’s rosters and playg fields.
Chief among them occurred durg the 1977 season when SFGSL hosted the gural Gay Softball World Seri and San Francis Badland took home the champnship. Gay dodge ball league creat muny for LGBTQ players.
SAN FRANCIS FOG GAY GBY CLUB BUILDG MUNY, EXPANDG HORIZONS OF SPORTS
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Gay dodge ball league creat muny for LGBTQ+ players.
But play is what the Varsy Gay League is all about, creatg joy and rary sports wh the LGBTQ+ muny. Thao Le is a Varsy Gay League athlete.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
SF Varsy Gay League. That's how Le me across San Francis's chapter of Varsy Gay League's dodgeball team 2017.
SF GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE CELEBRAT 50 YEARS OF GIVG PLAYERS A HOME BASE
Varsy Gay League has been a staple Garcia's life for the last .
" The Monday night dodgeball manager for Varsy Gay League is Ryann Madn. "In the past 15 years, Varsy Gay League has created 23 of the safe spac ci across the untry.
San Francis's Varsy Gay League offers dodgeball, soccer and kickball. More is available on the Varsy Gay League webse. His gay and lbian iends San Francis, though, had never experienced an event as thrillg or movg as the openg ceremony.
LGBT SPORTS HISTORY: FIRST GAY SOFTBALL WORLD SERI BUTS THE ERA OF DIS
And so Wadll created the Gay Gam – then lled the Gay Olympics, until the Internatnal Olympic Commtee sued over the name. “The formula for succs was visibily and inty, ” Wadll said an terview followg the first Gay Gam 1982.
That’s what the first Gay Gam were all about. Wadll died 1987, but the Gay Gam ntue to this day, growg to an ternatnal phenomenon sce their first eratn. They draw over 10, 000 athlet and sometim seven or eight tim as many spectators, said Shiv Pl, vice print of external relatns for the Feratn of Gay Gam.
You don’t have to be a profsnal athlete – even a proficient one – to pete the Gay Gam. You don’t even have to be gay. And unlike at the Olympics, activism is enuraged at the Gay Gam, as has been sce the begng when the HIV/AIDS crisis was ravagg LGBTQ muni.
NFL STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US PROFSNAL SPORTS
Above all, though, the Gay Gam are an event for queer and trans people to gather safely, play sports they love and be themselv whout fear of tolerance. The first Gay Gam were held San Francis 1982, where transmissn of HIV had peaked among the cy’s btlg gay muny. The Gay Gam uld be an act of prott then, too, Wadll cid, an event durg which LGBTQ people uld play the same sports they watched durg the Olympics and achieve the same kd of glory he had at the 1968 Olympics.