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- SF GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE CELEBRAT 50 YEARS OF G SPORTS TO CREATE A SENSE OF MUNY
- SF GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE CELEBRAT 50 YEARS OF GIVG PLAYERS A HOME BASE
SF GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE CELEBRAT 50 YEARS OF G SPORTS TO CREATE A SENSE OF MUNY
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. “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.
SF GAY SOFTBALL LEAGUE CELEBRAT 50 YEARS OF GIVG PLAYERS A HOME BASE
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. 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.