December 4, 2011 4:24 PM
The Score: From Bisexual Softballers to Breakaway Moutaineers, a Busy Week for KL Gates
Posted by Brian Baxter
Categorize this one as “only in America.”
On November 28, the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance (NAGAAA) announced the settlement of litigation initiated last year by three members of a San Francisco softball team that was stripped of its second-place finish in the 2008 Gay World Series when the three—who said they were bisexual—were deemed insufficiently gay and therefore ineligile to participate in the event.
According a press release issued by the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), which was also a plaintiff in the suit, upon qualifying for the 2008 championship game, the three players were brought into a conference room by NAGAAA officials and questioned about their sexual orientation and private lives in front of 25 people, many of them strangers.
“The players were forced to answer whether they were ‘predominantly’ interested in men or women, without being given the option of answering that they were bisexual,” the NCLR release states. “In response to a player’s statement that he was attracted to both men and women, a NAGAAA
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