Gay sports matters!

July 12, 2022 2:42 PM

Two very different documentaries about LGBTQ+ participation in sports: Light In The Water [1h14m] is a multi-generational look at the West Hollywood Aquatics team and how much it has mattered across decades for gay sports. Scrum [55m] is a look at a single gay Australian rugby team and their fight to win the 2015 Bingham Cup. Both are inspiring in very different ways.
posted by hippybear (6 comments total)

I have not looked at these yet but want to add in that Gender Reveal this week is an interview with a transwoman wrestler and they talk about trans/queer wrestling, which seems like it'd be a good fit for this discussion also :) Gender Reveal linktree, episode tweet.
posted by curious nu at 2:52 PM on July 12, 2022 [3 favorites]

Yes, thank you!
posted by hippybear at 2:59 PM on July 12, 2022

Among many other fights, trans men and trans women seem to be losing the fight for the space between the "trans" and the "man/woman". I'd like to put in a word here that it is far less othering to be adjective + noun than some entirely different form of human.
posted by tigrrrlily at 3:07 PM on July 12, 2022 [8 favorites]

Thanks tigerrrlily. :) I'd thought they were pretty interchangeable but just did some reading on that, and appreciate the help.
posted by curious nu at 4:32 PM on July 12, 2022 [3 favorites]

Here's another article that I didn't get around to making a FPP for:
'A bunch of ratbag, lesbian feminists': The coming-out story of the Adelaide Armpits, Australia's first LGBTQIA+ football club
posted by freethefeet at 7:42 PM on July 12, 2022 [1 favorite]

I'm definitely going to watch these soon. I love your long form LGBTQ+ history finds, hippybear.

I play on a trans-centric softball team in a fairly casual gay league and it's such a huge source of community for me.
posted by martinX's bellbottoms at 9:56 AM on July 14, 2022 [1 favorite]