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Some years back, at the Gay Softball World Seri, my San Francis league team cid to exercise s penchant for kschs by schlg a group dner at the lol Hooters. I thk the team was also tryg to throw a bone to straight players -- a ser misnceptn, but you have to appreciate the

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SF GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE CELEBRAT 50 YEARS OF G SPORTS TO CREATE A SENSE OF MUNY

New Season Begs March 2023 – The San Francis Gay Softball League has released the 2023 softball schle which ns om late March to June. Here is the #CUBS regular season schle.... More SF Cougars ready for 2023 Dry Cubbi ready to MIX up. Photo by A. IMPERATI COUGARS FACEBOOK page Check Your SF… * sf gay softball *

March 2023 – The San Francis Gay Softball League has released the 2023 softball schle which ns om late March to June. 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.

SF GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE CELEBRAT 50 YEARS OF GIVG PLAYERS A HOME BASE

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay. His announcement is a first for a male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league. * sf gay softball *

“I thk a lot people who eher didn’t play bee they felt they wouldn’t be accepted beg gay or people who were gay that played now had kd of a safe haven to go out and hang out wh people like themselv, ” he remarked, “So was very much a safe haven but also very petive. 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.

SF GAY AMATR SOFTBALL TEAM NTU WNG STREAK, FOSTERS MUNY

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. SF Gay Softball League celebrat 50 years of givg players a home base On Sundays San Francis, head to the baseball diamonds at Kimbell fields or Mosne Fields, and youll likely fd yourself the middle of a tradn thats lasted five s.

A gay anizatn to be around that long is a remarkable thg, " said Vcent Fuqua, Commissner of the San Francis Gay Softball League. "I have been the gay softball league for 37 years.

And beg a young, sred, gay, kid, whout any iends and seeg people dyg, I felt isolated, " Diaz said. Now we have over 50 ci that have gay softball leagu, " said Diaz.

SF GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE CELEBRAT 50 YEARS OF COMPETN, CAMARARIE, AND INCLN

"Beg trans is different om intifyg as gay or lbian.

On Saturday, at Oracle Park on Pri night, the San Francis Giants and the muny were the on cheerg for the San Francis Gay Softball League, honorg them on the field for 50 years and untg.

As the San Francis Gay Softball League celebrat s past, the lears are also lookg to the future.

SAN FRANCIS GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATN & GAME

The league was selected to be the host for the 2027 Gay Softball World Seri San Francis as the Gay Softball World Seri celebrat s 50th anniversary.

This is ed good news, and pecially for the San Francis Gay Softball League (SFGSL) and the Alameda Women’s Softball League (AWSL). We were gog to go to the Gay World Seri. On Friday and Saturday nights the late 1980s, wh $5 for b fare and drks, and a agrance to spray away the sticky scent of cigarette smoke, Orlando Diaz would head to Breadsticks, the lol gay bar Flhg, Queens.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

As an 18-year-old gay man longg for a sense of muny, Diaz cid to follow through. Soon enough he beme a member of their team, the Bands, which played agast other gay teams New York. He is now the ach and pcher for the San Francis Sluggers, one of the 40 teams the San Francis Gay Softball League.

IN SAN FRANCIS SOFTBALL LEAGUE, GAY AND STRAIGHT ATHLET MIXG ON AND OFF FIELD

“Part of was not feelg fortable jt knowg I was gay, ” Whe said.

The more he played the gay leagu, the more Whe felt fortable and the better he played.

At a team dner after the 2021 Gay Softball World Seri Columb, Oh, Siefert was givg a ctomary speech, thankg the players for their mment and celebratg their acplishments. Diaz displays the rg hband and teammate Bob Siefert ed to propose at the 2021 Gay Softball World Seri after practice at Mosne Fields San Francis on Feb. San Francis Gay Softball League learship enurag team managers to be clive of bodi of all abili and players om all backgrounds and inti.

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