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SF Gay Softball League commemorates 50 years of using sports to create a sense of community
For half a century, the SFGSL has helped the Bay Area LGBTQ population find a place where they feel safe to play softball as their true selves.
Texas Rangers sponsor this year’s Gay Softball World Series in Dallas
Although the Rangers are a Platinum Sponsor for the GSWS, their reluctance to publicize it is indicative of their approach to their LGBTQ fans.
This Seattle-based softball team was created for trans and non-binary players
The Puget Sound Pronouns are built in the image of their founder, who makes plays on the diamond, and wants to do the same in the community.
IMPACT Wrestling partners with Gay Softball World Series organizers
IMPACT Wrestling announces a new partnership with the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance.
Gay Softball inducts Dodgers’ Erik Braverman, others to NAGAAA Hall Of Fame
This year’s NAGAAA Hall Of Fame class includes a dozen people from across North America.
Some trans softball players are calling for the Gay World Series to be moved from Texas
The Gay Softball World Series is slated for Dallas this summer. Some trans athletes want it moved.
E Kerr is moving ahead by leaving the game behind
Transition meant ending their softball-playing career, but staying close to their college team as a manager.
Out pitching star Aleshia Ocasio wins softball championship crown
Ocasio pitched her way to first place in the 2021 Athletes Unlimited Softball Championship.
USA Softball settles for silver, Canada takes bronze, with 5 out medalists
After giving up two runs in the middle of the game, USA Softball couldn’t find their late inning magic against Japan.
Amanda Chidester helps USA Softball walk off Australia
With a come-from-behind walk-off single in the eighth, Amanda Chidester helps USA Softball win their fourth game in a row.
Fiancées Anissa Urtez and Amanda Chidester face off in Olympic softball
After becoming the first player to hit a home run in Mexican National Team history, Urtez takes on her partner Chidester and USA Softball.
Amanda Chidester and Hayley McCleney lead USA Softball to Olympic victory
In a 1-0 thriller over Canada, Chidester drives in the only run and McCleney saves the day with sterling defense.
Softball pitcher Ally Carda turns to her partner for Olympic inspiration
Kelly Kretschman won an Olympic softball gold medal in 2004. Now she’s helping her partner Ally Carda prepare for the Tokyo Games.
These 2 Olympic softball players are engaged to marry. They will play against each other in Tokyo, July 23
Anissa Urtez and Amanda Chidester are in love, at the top of their games, and they both want an Olympic gold medal.
NCAA under pressure from LGBTQ orgs to deny championships to trans ban states
The heads of GLAAD and Athlete Ally teamed-up to challenge NCAA governors to "do what’s right" for transgender athletes.
Sheena Lawrick played in two Olympics. She’s talking for the first time about being gay
Sheena Lawrick was out at Nebraska and Team Canada. Now she’s married and raising a family, skipping Olympics No. 3.
Natasha Cloud and Aleshia Ocasio got married
The couple tied the knot last October to protect themselves in case Donald Trump got reelected.
Outsports Male Hero of the Year: Kirk Walker
Since coming out as gay in 2007, the softball coach has been a role model and leading advocate for LGBTQ people in sports. Also nominated: rugger Verity Smith.
Celebrating LGBTQ sports history: Division 1 coach Kirk Walker comes out as gay
Every day in October we’re looking back at the athletes, coaches and events that made LGBTQ sports history.
Battling bias in scrums, swimming, softball and soccer
Join The Huddle for a brief look at what’s new in LGBT sports news, the latest links and who’s in the social media spotlight.
How this gay softball player overcame high school taunts, and embraced her true self
When Zoe Kim came out in high school, she was taunted and demeaned. That all changed at Sarah Lawrence College.
Team USA softball star Haylie McCleney comes out as gay: ‘I’m over-the-moon happy’
McCleney, who hails from small-town Alabama, says she feels more loved by God than ever.
How support from gay softball teammates carried Gerald Bostock through historic Supreme Court win
Bostock was fired from his dream job for playing in a gay softball league, but says he wouldn't change anything for the world.
This gay softball player helped win SCOTUS employment case
Gerald Bostock was fired from his job after joining a gay softball league. He won his case in the Supreme Court.
This transgender Latina softball player has a message for White trans people
In her latest video, YouTube personality and athlete Melody Maia Monet says White privilege has become ever more visible since the protests following the murder of George Floyd.
Goodbye, Columbus: Gay Softball World Series postponed until 2021 on account of coronavirus
The North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance has postponed its championship games, planned for August in Columbus, Ohio, because of the pandemic.
With LGBT sports leagues canceled, we lose camaraderie and community
Tens of thousands of LGBT people participate in sports leagues across the country, where they find friendship and comfort.
Silent spring — for college coach, a canceled season means ‘loss of identity’
Coronavirus impact: Kirk Walker expected to be helping UCLA softball defend its title, but then everything ground to a halt.
Openly LGBTQ athletes take part in Pride On The Court panel
At this weekend’s Pride On The Court at Sarah Lawrence College, openly LGBTQ athletes told student-athletes it’s their responsibility to create safe locker room environments.
Gay UCLA assistant coach Kirk Walker named head coach of California Softball Commotion
The out assistant coach of the reigning NCAA champion UCLA Bruins will stay on at the university as he takes the reins of the newest National Pro Fastpitch club.
1977: Year of the first Gay Softball World Series, and, uh, this
The Gay Softball World Series was born in 1977, the same year as "Saturday Night Fever."
Gerald Bostock’s journey to the Supreme Court started with a gay softball league
Joining a gay softball league ended Bostock’s 20-year career in social work and began a six year legal journey to the Supreme Court steps.