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ELLT TROTTER IS OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL ULTIMATE FRISBEE PLAYER
GAY-IENDLY ULTIMATE 'FRISBEE' LNCH PROFSNAL AMERIN ULTIMATE DISC LEAGUE
THIS GAY ULTIMATE PLAYER SHOWS YOU FRISBEE THROWS YOU NEVER DREAMED OF
BIG GAY FRISBEE HOSTG FIRST LGBT NATNAL ULTIMATE TOURNAMENT
FIRST-EVER GAY ULTIMATE FRISBEE TOURNAMENT THIS WEEKEND LOS ANGEL
THE EVANGELIL PREACHER LONNIE FRISBEE WAS GAY AND DIED OF AIDS
LONNIE FRISBEE 'NEVER CONSIRED' HIMSELF TO BE GAY, HE WROTE AUTOBGRAPHY
THE GAY MAN WHO LNCHED THE J MOVEMENT
LONNIE FRISBEE 'NEVER CONSIRED' HIMSELF TO BE GAY, HE WROTE AUTOBGRAPHY
GAY-IENDLY ULTIMATE 'FRISBEE' LNCH PROFSNAL AMERIN ULTIMATE DISC LEAGUE

ELLT TROTTER IS OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL ULTIMATE FRISBEE PLAYER

S Cy Shootout will feature the "Gay Frisbee" tournament January * gay frisbee *

Wele to Big Gay Frisbee San Francis! His teammat didn't bat a llective eye, and Trotter was their openly gay team pta his sophomore year.

"Most teams I've played on have been so mted to wng and beg better that the fact that I was gay was never a big issue.

This weekend Big Gay Frisbee Los Angel is hostg the first-ever gay Ultimate (Frisbee) tournament. The event will be held at Pan-Pacific Park on Saturday, Nov. 12, om 1pm-5pm. There will be... * gay frisbee *

While Trotter don't wear a big rabow flag on his cht or talk much about beg gay, there's no doubt everyone on his current team is well aware.

THIS GAY ULTIMATE PLAYER SHOWS YOU FRISBEE THROWS YOU NEVER DREAMED OF

Y, Lonnie Frisbee was gay & he died of AIDS 1993. Before and durg his evangelism reer, he worked as an evangelil preacher as well as a gay man. * gay frisbee *

"I don't know that always me up nversatn, " he said, "but teammat e up to me and say thgs like, 'I hear you're gay, jt wanted you to know I'm ol wh that.

BIG GAY FRISBEE HOSTG FIRST LGBT NATNAL ULTIMATE TOURNAMENT

By Dan Woog So how gay is isbee? Pretty gay. It's a sport - which is actually lled "Ultimate" and played wh a "disc," bee "Frisbee" is a * gay frisbee *

While he's experienced overwhelmg embrace by the ultimate muny, there have been rare moments of sual homophobia that ma him stop his tracks. "I remember someone talkg to me on the sile and sayg somethg was 'gay, '" Trotter remembered. The world's first gay ultimate league, Big Gay Frisbee, had s gural season Los Angel earlier this year.

Other gay leagu are expected to start play var ci the next 12 months. Six weeks later I me out (thankfully, PJ was gay too), PJ soon troduced me to Jim and his flag football league, and the rt is history.

Ultimate is an credibly open, welg place for gay athlet. In over 20 years of playg petive Ultimate, I've experienced jt one cint of homophobia.

FIRST-EVER GAY ULTIMATE FRISBEE TOURNAMENT THIS WEEKEND LOS ANGEL

* gay frisbee *

" He didn't know I was gay. One gay Ultimate player who emailed me this week said an HRC sticker was prent on one of the Columb Cran player's equipment "buckets" durg their ngural game last weekend. A spokperson for the Cran, Molly Mos, nfirmed that the player has had the sticker for years (though she has no knowledge that any of their players is gay).

THE EVANGELIL PREACHER LONNIE FRISBEE WAS GAY AND DIED OF AIDS

Asi om beg gay-iendly, Ultimate is the most exced sport I've ever seen. This is the champnship game the Big Gay Frisbee fall league. Woody Hartman, anizer of BGFSF (Big Gay Frisbee San Francis) explas Ultimate's appeal: "In Ultimate, I've found somethg I've been lookg for for years - a way to exercise outsi the gym, a team sport wh a strong sense of muny and a chance to meet athletic guys whout a drk my hand.

Ined both Big Gay Frisbee ( Los Angel) and the CMSA (Chigo Metropolan Sports Associatn) Ultimate League regnized sportsmanship wh team and dividual awards at their rpective leagu this year. "Big Gay Frisbee lays all out the name, " said Daniel Kang, BGF board member. This weekend Big Gay Frisbee Los Angel is hostg the first-ever gay Ultimate (Frisbee) tournament.

Big Gay Frisbee founr Seth Harrgton:. BGF is exced to be sponsored by MGD64, believ that the Ultimate Frisbee Tournament Fundraiser is jt the begng of bigger and better thgs to event will be followed by a Pub Crawl Fundraiser at 6pm – startg at GYM bar, and some of the proceeds wil go to the Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) and s efforts to promote safe schools for everyone, "regardls of genr inty/exprsn and sexual orientatn. As far as we know, this is the first-ever gay Ultimate tournament ever held (please rrect if that's not the se).

LONNIE FRISBEE 'NEVER CONSIRED' HIMSELF TO BE GAY, HE WROTE AUTOBGRAPHY

Also check out Big Gay Frisbee on Facebook. Y, Lonnie Frisbee was gay & he died of AIDS 1993. Before and durg his evangelism reer, he worked as an evangelil preacher as well as a gay man.

THE GAY MAN WHO LNCHED THE J MOVEMENT

Acrdg to Frisbee, homosexualy was always a s God’s ey, and both nomatns outlawed gay sexual behavr. He was married to Connie Breen and the uple divorced 1978 after his volvement the gay muny.

LONNIE FRISBEE 'NEVER CONSIRED' HIMSELF TO BE GAY, HE WROTE AUTOBGRAPHY

Furthermore, the realistic portrayal of the 1970s and relig movements mak fans wonr if Lonnie Frisbee was gay. Y, Lonnie Frisbee Was Gay: The Hippie Preacher Was Well-Known the Gay Unrground for His Dancg, Bohemian Attus, and Dg Use. Y, Lonnie Frisbee was gay.

He worked as both an evangelil preacher and a gay man privately before and durg his evangelism reer. This is ntrast to his statements terviews that homosexualy was never anythg other than a s God’s ey, and both nomatns prohibed gay sexual behavr. Their marriage, however, was marred by difficulti, cludg Frisbee’s homosexualy and fily.

Frisbee moved to San Francis, where he beme volved the gay muny, after the uple divorced 1978. He was San Francis durg the famo 1967 Summer of Love, and even at the age of 18, he was a pellg figure, wng awards for his patg and beg known the gay unrground for his dancg, bohemian attus, and dg e.