First-ever gay Ultimate Frisbee tournament this weekend Los Angel - Outsports

Contents:

• ELLT TROTTER IS OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL ULTIMATE FRISBEE PLAYER
• THIS GAY ULTIMATE PLAYER SHOWS YOU FRISBEE THROWS YOU NEVER DREAMED OF
• GAY-IENDLY ULTIMATE 'FRISBEE' LNCH PROFSNAL AMERIN ULTIMATE DISC LEAGUE
• BIG GAY FRISBEE HOSTG FIRST LGBT NATNAL ULTIMATE TOURNAMENT
• FIRST-EVER GAY ULTIMATE FRISBEE TOURNAMENT THIS WEEKEND LOS ANGEL
• GAY ULTIMATE FRISBEE – IENDLY GAME

ELLT TROTTER IS OPENLY GAY PROFSNAL ULTIMATE FRISBEE PLAYER

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.

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. "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. 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.

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

Other gay leagu are expected to start play var ci the next 12 months. Wele to Big Gay Frisbee San Francis!

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.

" 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.

GAY-IENDLY ULTIMATE 'FRISBEE' LNCH PROFSNAL AMERIN ULTIMATE DISC LEAGUE

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).

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. Ultimate Frisbee is gay as hell.

BIG GAY FRISBEE HOSTG FIRST LGBT NATNAL ULTIMATE TOURNAMENT

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.

FIRST-EVER GAY ULTIMATE FRISBEE TOURNAMENT THIS WEEKEND LOS ANGEL

As far as we know, this is the first-ever gay Ultimate tournament ever held (please rrect if that's not the se). Also check out Big Gay Frisbee on Facebook.

Photo urty of So how gay is isbee? Pretty gay. And plenty are gay.

GAY ULTIMATE FRISBEE – IENDLY GAME

It’s a big gay sport. And has spawned Big Gay Frisbee teams.

Harrgton roped gay and lbian iends (and his own lbian sister). Those quali make “Big Gay Frisbee” attractive to the LGBT muny, Harrgton thks.

(About that Big Gay Frisbee name.