Pat Griffin has a full rundown of the latest from the Sky Wyatt lawsuit. Watt alleges that her high school softball coach in Kilgore, Texas, outed her to her mother, violating her right to privacy. From Griffin’s blog: The lawsuit claims that the coaches: 1. Called Skye to a fake team meeting 2. Locked Skye [...]
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Gay softball settles lawsuit. Court upholds straight limit, dismisses discrimination claims.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2011, 1:15pmPT The North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance has settled a lawsuit brought by the National Center for Lesbian Rights on behalf of three players who were disqualified from the 2008 Gay Softball World Series in Seattle. In the settlement the players have been reinstated and their second-place finish is now [...]
Grizzlies softball calendar just in time for 2012
We’re approaching December, which means the 2012 hot-athlete calendars are rolling out. The latest is from the Coors Light Trafik Grizzlies out of Columbus, Ohio. One of the players featured is our good friend Pete Olsen, who runs the blog WideRights. The team (and the calendar) features a wide range of ages, shapes and sizes. But [...]
Moment #9: First Gay Softball World Series
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Softball, 1977: The owner of the Badlands bar in San Francisco teamed up with bar owners in New York to send the Ramrod team west to play in a best three-of-five series. Badlands won and the Gay Softball World Series was born. [...]
Boston Alley Gators win Gay World Series ‘B’ title and honor teammate
Story and photos by Ross Forman Shortly after the champagne stopped spraying, the tears started flowing. Joe Peltier, who plays outfield and catcher and also coaches the Boston Alley Gators in the B-Division, has been playing in the Gay Softball World Series since 1984 – and on Sept. 3, he became a two-time champion when [...]
Gay Softball World Series daily update
Throughout the Gay Softball World Series we will have daily updates provided by Krissy Wild, the Athletic Director of the Southern New England Softball League, and her wife, Dawn. For specific game scores, visit the NAGAAA Web site. Saturday, Sept. 3 recap – Division champions crowned! Today was Championship Saturday. As it has been for the last three [...]
Preview: Gay Softball World Series in Chicago for first time since 1983
By Ross Forman Bob Strada played second base in 1983 for the Chicago Sidetrack softball team that won the championship in the Gay Softball World Series, run by the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Association. That ’83 Series was the last time Chicago hosted the annual, multi-day tournament and the first non-California champion in the [...]
Moment #53: Kirk Walker comes out as only openly gay male Division 1 coach
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Softball, 2007: Oregon State softball coach Kirk Walker was no stranger to Outsports. He was one of our first readers and we kept in touch with him regularly via email. Walker was comfortably out to those who mattered in his life [...]
Outsports It Gets Better video: Kirk Walker, softball coach, Oregon State
The second video in Outsports’ partnership with the It Gets Better Project comes from Kirk Walker, the head softball coach at Oregon State. Walker was first profiled by Outsports in 2007 as the only openly gay male coach in Division I sports. Said Walker: “I am in a unique situation. I am a Division I [...]
Moment #78: National gay softball group sued over its limits on straight players
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Softball, 2010: The 2008 Gay Softball World Series was not initially noteworthy, but the lawsuit filed in April 2010 from an incident in that event made national news. The National Center for Lesbian Rights, representing three players from a San Francisco [...]
White Sox offer limited support to Gay Softball World Series being held in Chicago
The Chicago White Sox have offered to support the Gay Softball World Series in Chicago, but declined a request to have player Gordon Beckham throw out the ceremonial first pitch. Beckham got in hot water and apologized after writing “Getz is gay” in the infield of a July 4 game with the Kansas City Royals. [...]
Gay Softball World Series invites White Sox Gordon Beckham and Jerry Reinsdorf to attend
Local organizers of NAGAAA‘s Gay Softball World Series have invited Chicago White Sox second baseman Gordon Beckham (right) and team owner Jerry Reinsdorf to the Gay Softball World Series in late August. Beckham previously “apologized” for scrawling “Getz is gay” in the infield of a recent matchup with the Kansas City Royals. From the Windy [...]
Moment #100: University of Florida settles lawsuit with softball player Andrea Zimbardi
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Softball, 2004. When Andrea Zimbardi, an SEC honor roll student and a senior captain on the team, was kicked off of the University of Florida softball team in the midst of their march to the NCAA tournament, Zimbardi suspected it was [...]
Federal judge rules that gay softball association can limit number of straight players
A federal judge in Washington state ruled that NAGAAA, the national gay softball association that runs the annual Gay Softball World Series, can keep its rule that limits the number of straight players per team. However, he allowed a lawsuit against NAGAAA by three men to go to trial. US District Judge John Coughenour wrote [...]
Chuck Dima, the grandfather of gay softball, dies at the age of 81
The gay sports world lost a true legend last weekend when Chuck Dima, known as the “grandfather of gay softball,” passed away on Sunday after a battle with cancer. He was 81. Sam Lehman, commissioner of the Southern New England Friendship Softball League, was one of the first two hear the news: Chuck was often [...]