Gay sports matters!
July 12, 2022 2:42 PM Subscribe
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.
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]
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]
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]
'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]
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]
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