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- GAY LLEGE SOFTBALL PLAYER NAVIGAT AN ACCEPTG TEAM AND SILENT FAY
- PLAYG SOFTBALL PROV YOU'RE GAY
- WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
GAY LLEGE SOFTBALL PLAYER NAVIGAT AN ACCEPTG TEAM AND SILENT FAY
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All my life I had been exposed to passive-aggrsive homophobia.
Her supporters acced nservativ of tryg to damage her chanc by whisperg that she was gay.
None of this particularly surprised a sport that has wrtled wh the issue — If you play, you’re probably gay —for s.
PLAYG SOFTBALL PROV YOU'RE GAY
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“It is one of those ltle touchstone thgs, ” said Rosalyn Bugg, an official wh the Greater Los Angel Softball Assn., found as a slow-pch league for gays.
Several ach Southern California timate that more than 50% of the players were gay at the time.
WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS
“I’ve never seen so many gay people my life, ” said Drabecki, who now ach at Burbank High. ” By then, the game had bee a central part of the culture, said Pat Griff, thor of “Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lbians and Homophobia Sport.
” Gay women uld feel accepted at the ballpark. “Softball beg a phemism for homosexual is pretty funny, ” said Bugg, the recreatnal league official.
“But not so funny to a lot of the women I play wh who are not homosexual. ” As straight players grew more worried about beg labeled gay, the gam took on a different look.