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Mar 30, 2023
Trans Sporter Room Ep178 -- WE ARE BACK! Transgender Day of Visibility Special Report
After a month away to reassess and regroup.
WE. ARE. BACK!!!!!
Our host Karleigh Webb is rested and ready for TDoV was special report to tell some stories from voices in sports you may not have heard of
Julie Ann Curtiss -- When England's Rugby Football Union banned transgender women for playing at all levels of the sport, Curtiss decided to fight for her right play. She is suing the RFU and she was beamed up to talk about why she getting in the scrum and why she loves to play.
Lex Horowitz -- A a varsity squash player at NCAA Division III Bowdoin College, Horowitz was one of 34 out transgender collegiate athletes. Their experiences being non-binary in a sporting landscape that is all-too binary are the catalyst for they are doing as an inclusion consultant who is actively working to make spaces in sports safer, inclusive and has their eye on the games of the tomorrow.
Charlotte McEachern -- Wrestling is who she is and it has her studying hard on the art of the grapple at the iconic Monster Factory. Legendary heroes and heels have made their beginnings there, and the finishing school is the subject of a new Apple TV documentary series. McEachern, a trans woman in the squared circle, talks about being a part of the film, a part of the school, her budding career path, and she even gave us one of those cool pre-match intros!
Arthur Webber -- On TDoV, TRUK United FC ("The Official Association Football Side of the Trans Sporter Room") will continuing making history. In 2022, TRUK United fielding the first-ever all-transfeminine eleven in the history of FA and UEFA competition against Fifth Division Dulwich Hamlet FC. This week, TRUK United will again field an all-trans woman side, and in a doubleheader event, they will field a first-ever all-transmasculine side to battle with a team of Dulwich Hamlet supporters. Webber, a young trans man who lives and breathes the pitch, will wear the captain's armband and lead the lads into the fray. His story is a comeback story. Last year, after giving up sport in frustration while finding his truth, he return to play after 11 years away.
Also This Week
* Tears In Nashville
* Florida to legislate bathrooms. Yes, they really are.
* The World Athletics ban
* Protest And Deny: Posie Parker
* "The Nature Girl" Karleigh Webb?
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Oh by the way, IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK!
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Feb 27, 2023
The Sports Kiki Ep. 152: The farewell show
This is not the end of the road, but it is the end of "The Sports Kiki," at least in its current form under Outsports. On this week's show, Alex talks about ESPN's Izzy Gutierrez giving a shout-out to LGBTQ sports leagues, an MMA coach offering security for a drag brunch and his takeaways from three years of hosting this special podcast.
Follow Alex on Twitter for updates, @AlexReimer1.
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Feb 22, 2023
The Trans Sporter Room Ep176 --The Straight As Edition: Advocacy, Advance, Art and Allyship
It's our last ride alongside Vox Media. Thanks for all the fish.
After this week. The Trans Sporter Room is taking a 4-week hiatus to transition into some new digs, but we'll end the "Vox Era" with a standout trio that gets all "A"s. This week our host, Karleigh Webb, sits down with
Advocacy -- Ash Hall -- Ash is one of a young gritty generation who are taking the torch of late Texas trans titan Monica Roberts. They beam up to talk about to ugly fight there, but also about how they keep hope amid the Greg Abbott onslaught.
Advance -- D.F. Pendry -- Like our host, D.F. is a sports journalist, and they also like out D.F. sports was a way through and way forward, and the Glaive Sports correspondent gives us the ins and out of Premier Hockey Federation playoff chase, and a look into the recent NHL retrenchment regarding pride nights in the league.
Art and Allyship -- Barry Deutsch -- The political cartoonist/comics author-illustrator whose credits include the excellent Hereville, and Superbutch series is a favorite of Karleigh's who has cited his work on cartoons on LGBTQ rights, including using one his best strips as part of an Outsports Awards piece in 2021. In this interview we delve into how an ally uses what they have to help move things forward
Also This Week
Florida legislation goes from bad to worse
Leigh Finke: Freshman Phenom
Truk United's Historic Doubleheader
Karleigh's Last Call Calls Out A Lie
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Feb 16, 2023
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 192: Billy Dixon: End of an Era
Hello, Lovelies! It's the end of an era in more ways than one this week as welcome back "The Business" Billy Dixon. He and Brian Bell discuss the end of Pro Wrestling VIBE, what led to that decision and what Sunday's #BRAUMATICA event represents for the legacy of the company. Dixon also opens up about his return from retirement, the reaction to the Killian McMurphy-Edith Surreal storyline and taking over GCW For The Culture at this year's Mania weekend.
Follow Billy Dixon on Twitter: @TheBillyDixon
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
Check out IndependentWrestling.tv for the best in current and classic independent pro wrestling, including live events from top independent promotions worldwide. Use promo code “LGBTRingPod” or visit tinyurl.com/IWTVLGBT
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Feb 15, 2023
The Trans Sporter Room Ep175 -- The Beauty and Speed Edition
Two things we like in our sports at the Trans Sporter Room are beauty and speed, and in a perfect world our host Karleigh Webb always seeks BOTH!
BEAUTY: Ed Fox and Phoebe Martin of the Union Omaha FC "Proud Owls"
Last year Fox and Martin started the Proud Owls, the LGBTQ supporters group for the USL League One Union Omaha FC. They started the supporters' group to provide a safe space for LGBTQ and Ally fans of the 2021 USL League One champions. Last Week, as their state began hearings on anti-trans discrimination and protest were called, they went to the state capital to show support. They were their to give support and be there. To them it was an evolution of what they started their group.
SPEED: Zach Herrin and Kevin Jennings
Zach Herrin has been in pro motorsports since he was a 16-year-old on the pro motorcycling circuit, and had potential, but finding his truth as a gay man and his chosen profession was since as a bridge too far. Herrin left the racing saddle to attend to himself.
Along the way, the only answers he could have? Yes, you are gay and yes, you are a racer!
Herrin began his road back. Leading up to an opportunity to drive in an ARCA Menards Series car at Daytona this week thanks former driver and current ARCA Series team owner Andy Hillenburg
For a sponsor Herrin turned to a group who doesn't like to lose. When it comes to fighting for LGBTQ rights, Lambda Legal bats close to a 1.000.
Together, driver and sponsor face one of the greatest challenges in sports:
200 miles on the high banks at 200 miles-per-hour at Daytona!
Also This Week:
The latest on a homicide that shook trans communities worldwide
Razorback rudeness
Karleigh's Last Call: Eulogy for a mentor
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Feb 14, 2023
The GAMEDAY TEA: Black History Month - LZ Granderson
LZ Granderson receives all of his flowers from D.Gil on this special Black History Month shoutout episode.
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Feb 11, 2023
The Sports Kiki Ep. 151: Is the Super Bowl losing cultural relevance?
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex discusses whether the Super Bowl is losing its cultural relevance. He also talks about Tony Dungy pulling out from speaking at an anti-gay preacher's event, and Nets guard Cam Thomas saying he was just "being playful" when he said a gay slur.
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Feb 9, 2023
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 191: Big Egg w/ Colette Arrand & Joseph Montecillo
Hello, Lovelies! This week we close out Journo January (a little late) by welcoming Colette Arrand and Joseph Montecillo of the new wrestling blog Big Egg. They and Brian Bell discuss how Big Egg came together in the wake of Fanbyte's closure last year, their unique approaches to discussing pro wrestling and their goals for the blog going forward. The trio also chat a bit about the 2023 Royal Rumble, Mad Dog Connelly, C.R.E.E.P.S. and Mountain Dew Pitch Black.
Check out Big Egg at bigegg.substack.com
Follow Colette Arrand on Twitter: @colettearrand
Follow Joseph Montecillo on Twitter: @josephweirdness
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Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM
Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod
The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
Check out IndependentWrestling.tv for the best in current and classic independent pro wrestling, including live events from top independent promotions worldwide. Use promo code “LGBTRingPod” or visit tinyurl.com/IWTVLGBT
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Feb 8, 2023
The Trans Sporter Room Ep174 -- The TSR Gridiron Girls Super Bowl Preview
Super Bowl LVII. Kansas City Chiefs. Philadelphia Eagles.
Two young star quarterbacks. Mahomes, the playmaker. Hurts, hardscrabble battler.
A track meet offense against an old school NFC East defense.
A old coach chasing legend. A young coach making a mark.
We bring back the Gridiron Girls to break it down. TSR NFL Analyst Shauna Adkison, TSR College Football Analyst Chelsea Poe, and our host Karleigh Webb give you the lowdown on Super Sunday.
From the game, to the halftime, to the commercials, to the grub we got you!
Also This Week
Congrats Kim Petras!
Legislative Battleground: Virginia
Anatomy of an anti-trans lie
Karleigh's Last Call: How not to talk to an affirming parent.
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Feb 1, 2023
The Trans Sporter Room Ep173 -- Sheryl Weikal: Showing Heart and Throwing Heat
"Solidarity is about people, not principles. You can have the greatest principles in the world, but if you don't use them to help anybody they are completely worthless."
As a baseball writer Sheryl Weikal has always put her pen in line with her principles. She not only spoke stats, but also spoke out on issues that matter and didn't shy away from social critique at the intersections of sport and society.
She cut so close to the quick at times that one team said she wasn't welcome to attend a game at their park.
Weikal approaches what she sees as her life's work with the same passion. She a Chicago-based lawyer who specializes in being advocate for those who otherwise wouldn't have one. Her practice centered on consumer protection. Some speak of being "for the little guy". This tough trans woman does so.
This week our Karleigh Webb beamed up this battler, and talked about the ol' ball game, the pitch-and-catch of legal system, living in trans joy through solidarity and connection, and how her spouse, automotive writer Mercedes Streeter, could be a serious rival to Starfleet's greatest engineers.
Also This Week:
Where the Trans Sporter Room goes next
Nothing quiet on the legislative front
The backlash tide on sports and pride
Karleigh Last Call: It's was 35 years ago today when Doug Williams came to slay
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Jan 28, 2023
The Sports Kiki Ep. 150: Tony Dungy, Ivan Provorov and the "Gay Agenda"
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about the anti-LGBTQ vitriol from Tony Dungy and Ivan Provorov defenders, and how they're telling on themselves with their extreme rhetoric.
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Jan 25, 2023
The Trans Sporter Room Ep172 -- Blake and Kino From Half In, Half Out Are All In About Gymnastics
Blake Bonkowski and Kino love Gymnastics.
They go to meets. They watch the sport. They can spot a good Yurchenko and tell you why it's good.
They start Half In, Half Out Podcast as a homage to a sport they love. It's become a hot spot for LGBTQ figures in the sport to talk about floor, beams, vaults and finding their place in a demanding sport looking to move forward.
Karleigh Webb sat down with them both for a lively discussion on their podcasts, themselves, and looking at an eventful college season thus far, how you build a newbie Trekker and yacht rock floor exercise.
Also This Week:
Legislative "Show-Me" Showdown In Missouri
World Athletics: The Next Domino?
Karleigh's Last Call: Pride Nights Matter..and I'm GLAAD They Do!
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Jan 24, 2023
The GAMEDAY TEA: Addressing the Woke Sports Fans
D.Gil addresses "woke" sports fans after the recent Damar Hamlin, Devin Willock, and Chandler LeCroy incidents.
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Jan 21, 2023
The Sports Kiki Ep. 149: How the Flyers whiffed on Ivan Provorov and LGBTQ Pride
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex speaks with Philadelphia Flyers writer Madeline Campbell about the team's disastrous handling of Ivan Provorov. Alex also rips Tony Duny for tweeting about kids identifying as cats, and NBC for its continued silence.
Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1.
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Jan 19, 2023
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 190: Harley R. Pageot
Hello, Lovelies! Journo January keeps rolling this week as we welcome Grit & Glitter co-host and Pro Wrestling Torch contributor Harley R. Pageot! He and Brian Bell discuss growing up as a wrestling fan in Canada amid Bret Hart's heights, the unique focus of Grit & Glitter's pro wrestling coverage and the community-building aspect of that work. Pageot also delves into their own exploration of gender and how Ring of Honor led to his entry into wrestling media.
Follow Harley R. Pageot on Twitter: @yrechoheart
Follow Grit & Glitter on Twitter: @gritglitterpod
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify…
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Jan 18, 2023
The Trans Sporter Room Ep171 -- Iszac Henig: Coming Full Circle
In 2021, a rising junior collegiate swimmer made a decision: Team ahead of self for a chance to complete a collective goal
For Yale University sprint specialist Iszac Henig, it means going fast alongside his mates on Yale's women's swim team. With the goal of bringing an Ivy League women's team title back to New Haven for the first time since 2017.
It also meant putting a critical piece of his transition on hold.
2021-2022 was as successful in the pool for Henig as it was controversial for the sport. Among those he would swim against last season was certain senior at Penn named Lia Thomas.
Yes. That Lia Thomas.
Through the headline clickbait, Henig swam fast and had fun, even through a difficult season of having to leave a piece of himself on hold. He ended the year with his first individual Ivy League title and became one of only three transgender student-athletes in NCAA to earn Division I conference title, and only one of three to earn All-American honors.
After last season, Henig m…
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Jan 14, 2023
The Sports Kiki Ep. 148: Should anti-gay Tony Dungy still be part of NBC's NFL coverage?
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about Tony Dungy's history of vehement anti-LGBTQ commentary, and whether he should still be part of NBC's NFL coverage.
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Jan 12, 2023
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 189: Chuy Harris
Hello, Lovelies! Journo January continues as we welcome former Pro Wrestling Torch and Grit & Glitter contributor Chuy Harris to the show! They and Brian Bell discuss their love for Southern Wrasslin', why Arn Anderson is the best, how they found their way onto the Pro Wrestling Torch and their passion for covering pro wrestling differently. They also chat about their time as a member of the Glitterati and how that period changed how and what pro wrestling Chuy now finds the most meaning within.
Follow Chuy Harris on Twitter: @CochinoChuy
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Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM
Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod
The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
Che…
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Jan 11, 2023
The Trans Sporter Room Ep170 -- Boxing, Bulldogs, The Road To The Bowl, and Balance Beams
After two weeks of looking back, we launch forward into a new year at the Trans Sporter Room.
Boxing -- The World Boxing Council is talking about "inclusion", but a trans pioneer in the sweet science is sour on the plan.
Bulldogs -- The big dogs from the SEC ate hearty in college football's National Championship and Karleigh Webb brings the Gridiron Girls, Shauna Adkison and Chelsea Poe in for a post mortem on Georgia's 65-7 win over TCU, and what to come for Week Zero 2023.
The Road To The Bowl -- 32 NFL teams are paired down to 14 with the playoffs opening this week, and our trio looks at the Super Wild Card Weekend as the fight for Super Bowl LVII begins
Balance Beams -- Karleigh's Last Call this week looks at how will and welcome yields growth for a sport.
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Jan 7, 2023
The Sports Kiki Ep. 147: How sports leagues can step up their LGBTQ support in 2023
Happy New Year! On this week's show, Alex talks about how sports leagues can step up their LGBTQ support in 2023. At this stage, just throwing Pride Nights isn't enough. We need more substantial action.
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Jan 6, 2023
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 188: Wrestle Kingdom 17 w/ Rachel Giuliani
Hello, Lovelies! The Wrestle Kingdom tradition continues as we welcome back Rachel Giuliani to unpack New Japan's pinnacle event, Wrestle Kingdom 17! She and Brian Bell discuss the brutal story of Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay, the pristine nature of Kazuchika Okada vs. Jay White, the debut of Mercedes Moné and so much more, including some outstanding looks and a "tempehy" Zach Sabre Jr. Also, powerwalking.
Follow Rachel Giuliani on Twitter: @EffingBoring
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Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod
The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Jan 5, 2023
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 187: Haley Anne
Hello, Lovelies! It's a new year, which means another trip into Journo January, our interview series with queer members of the pro wrestling media, and we're kicking things off with Tag Talk co-host Haley Anne (Fightful, Wrestling Muse). She and Brian Bell discuss her journey in wrestling media, overcoming personal obstacles to add podcasting to their skillset and why covering TV and comics prepared her for covering wrestling. Haley also chats the personal impact of Total Divas and the origins of "Tagussy."
Follow Haley Anne on Twitter: @haleyanne_
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Ban…
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Jan 4, 2023
The Trans Sporter Room Ep169 -- The 2022 TSR All-Karleigh Team
As we head into 2023, we take a fun dive back into 2022. It was Karleigh Webb's first full year as host-producer-editor-reporter-whatever additional titles we can create of this podcast and it was a lot of work that was a lot of fun.
This podcast celebrates a grand year but building the best team in sports: The All-Karleigh Team.
Thanks to all our supporters in '22, and we look forward to boldly go again in '23!
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Dec 28, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep168 -- 2022: The Year of Lia
Each year has a sport story or stories that define that year.
In 2022, the discussion and debate over inclusion took a larger stage, mainly because of a college swimmer in the Ivy League.
It's been 9 months since Lia Thomas, then at the University of Pennsylvania, won an NCAA championship, but her name still causes reactions whenever the issue of trans people in sport is discussed.
In this special year-end edition of the Trans Sporter Room, we look back at the timeline, the tales and how the twists and turns have affected the larger issues in sport and our society. Lia Thomas taking a starting block as a collegian changed more in sports that we could imagine.
How much change? We have yet to see, but the reactions to this point have been seismic.
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Dec 24, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 146: Gay soccer journalist Adam Crafton on his World Cup experience
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex speaks with The Athletic's Adam Crafton about his experience covering the World Cup in Qatar as an out gay man.
This is the final "Sports Kiki" of 2022. Thank you for listening, and talk to you next year!
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Dec 23, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 186: 2022 QWI Awards w/ Em Fear & Harley R. Pageot
Hello, Lovelies! QWI season officially comes to a close today as we announce the winners of the 2022 QWI Awards as voted by you, the listeners! Em Fear and Harley R. Pageot of Grit & Glitter join Brian Bell to reveal and discuss the winners in 16 different categories, including Moment of the Year, Personality of the Year, Best Look, International Wrestler of the Year, Wrestler of the Year and many others! Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year from all of us at LGBT In The Ring!
Follow Grit & Glitter on Twitter: @gritglitterpod
Follow Em Fear on Twitter: @ForkedPgh
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
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Dec 22, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 185: 2022 QWI 200 w/ Lo McGrath & Pollo Del Mar
Hello, Lovelies! It's a special day on LGBT In The Ring as we're discussing the 2022 QWI 200 list with PWI columnists Lo McGrath and Pollo Del Mar! They and Brian Bell chat about their thoughts on the rankings, why AC Mack ranked at #1 and what the vast expansion of the number of out wrestlers means for the composition of the list. They chat about talents from all of the world, where they may disagree with the rankings and what the list means in the larger scope of the world of pro wrestling!
Follow Lo McGrath on Instagram: @leaux__leaux
Follow Pollo Del Mar on Twitter: @TheGlamazonPDM
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and ch…
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Dec 21, 2022
Trans Sporter Room Ep167 -- Holiday Special Edition featuring 3 Gifts of 2022
2022 was a rough, eventful, victorious, joyful, frustrating, upsetting, and beautiful just the same.
This week, our Holiday Special Edition looks at three things we considered to be the "big gifts" under our special tree and great guests, reports and features this year, in addition to many others who made this year a joy.
Under the tree:
"Trans Women In Cars Getting Coffee" -- It began as our host Karleigh Webb being interviewed for a documentary, it ended up being a cool conversation with MMA's Alana McLaughlin.
"Inviting In: The Rest of the Story" -- It was a major piece of our host's year. A homegoing, a homecoming, and a lot of love. But it wasn't done alone. Karleigh bring back noted activist Kamora Herrington on being on the wing of a special mission-within-a-mission
"Amy Schneider: Winning" -- As she was owning Jeopardy as a contestant and in its vaulted Tournament of Champions. Amy Schneider became a pop culture sleeper hit. Karleigh goes one-on-one with one of the personalitie…
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Dec 17, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 145: An alternative take on gay marriage
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex gets a different perspective on the Respect for Marriage Act. He speaks with Ben Miller, one half of "Bad Gays," about how same-sex marriage isn't what it appears to be.
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Dec 14, 2022
Trans Sporter Room Ep166 -- Karleigh Headline News Edition
There was a lot going on!
Brittney Griner was released and had a warm homecoming.
Professional Disc Golf made a major rule change because a transgender woman won on the tour (sound familiar?)
Karleigh Webb was on special assignment watching inclusion lead the peloton at U.S. Cyclocross Nationals
and the last call sends some special vibes on big week for one our favorite member of Trans Sporter Room Nation.
Karleigh Headline News: You give us 37 minutes, we'll give you the world!
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Dec 13, 2022
The GAMEDAY Tea: The Story of UGA's Stetson Bennett IV
D.Gil shares the inspiring story of former walk-on University of Georgia football player turned Heisman finalist and Nation Champion Stetson Bennett.
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Dec 10, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 144: The sad politicization of Brittney Griner
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, a soon-to-be 30-year-old Alex bemoans the sad politicization of Brittney Griner, and is on the lookout for a certain troll who's been attacking him online.
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Dec 8, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 184: Great Bambina Returns!
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome back Full Queer co-producer and wrestler The Great Bambina! She and Brian Bell sit down for a candid conversation about the events between herself and Sterling last year, trying to find her place in wrestling all over again and how she came to be Marco Mayur's collaborator for Full Queer. All with a little sprinkle of Camus discussion under the parameters of pro wrestling. Happy QWI 200 eve, Lovelies!
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
Check out IndependentWrestling.tv for the best in current and…
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Dec 7, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep165 -- Leah Juliett and Brían Nguyen: Changing Pageantry
To some, pageants seem to be out of place with the tone and taste of changing times. Anachronisms. Archaic. Maybe backward. Certainly binary.
To Miss America Connecticut hopeful Leah Juliett, taking her shot at a shimmery tiara represents a big leap forward. Imagine having "Miss" in the title, but your pronouns are they/them.
To Miss America New Hampshire contender Brían Nguyen, it's a chance to show that regal, and royal need not be relegated to a narrow definition, and trans can be a part of the definition.
This week Karleigh Webb sits down with two pioneers seeking the place in a special tradition, and moving it into into a diverse new age.
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Dec 3, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 143: The problem with Lamar Jackson's response to blowback over his anti-gay insult
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex discusses Lamar Jackson's reaction to blowback he received after tweeting an anti-gay insult, and how the LGBTQ Group of Death is faring in the World Cup.
Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1.
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Dec 1, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 183: The End of WAC w/ Max Zaleski
Hello, Lovelies! This week's episode is bittersweet as we welcome Without A Cause Wrestling co-founder Max Zaleski to the show. WAC recently announced that its Dec. 4 event will be its last, ending a four-year run as one of the more beloved Pacific Northwest promotions and the rare one led by LGBTQ people. Max and Brian Bell discuss why WAC is closing, the struggles and triumphs over WAC's existence, what the company's legacy will be for both wrestlers and fans and much more.
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Nov 30, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep164 -- The Gridiron Girls: Who's In, Who's Out, and Who's Joyful
Whew! What a weekend! A stunner in Columbus, a slate of championship games ahead. The last month of the NFL season. Football is in the frenzy, so we beamed up our expert analyst team
Chelsea Poe -- When she's not making sizzling films, she getting fired up about college football. She's also quite happy. Her Michigan Maize and Blue just may have a date with destiny.
Shauna Adkison -- Our NFL analyst has her eyes on the Super Bowl LXVII, and who may make it there, even if it isn't the time for her Browns yet.
Karleigh Webb -- The host has had a rough football season. How bad was it? If it wasn't for her CFL team, it would be really dismal. I'm just sayin'
Also this week:
Team USA moves to the knockout round
Marriage Equality moves to the House
Emily Bridges: Hero on hot wheels
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Nov 29, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Outsports Thanksgiving Leftovers
D.Gil shares and discusses some of his favorite written articles from the past couple of weeks that you may have missed during the Thanksgiving holiday. These topics are so juicy you'll read them twice too.
Isaac Humphries
Jai Vidal
Campbell Harrison
One Love Ban
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Nov 28, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 182: Jai Vidal Signs With IMPACT Wrestling
Hello, Lovelies! It's a special Monday edition of the podcast as we sit down with IMPACT Wrestling's newest signee, Jai Vidal. He and Brian Bell chat his reaction to the contract offer, becoming the first out gay male wrestler ever signed by IMPACT, his partnership with Gisele Shaw and why being a source of representation holds special meaning for him.
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Nov 25, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 181: "Ravenous" Randy Myers
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome "The Weirdo Hero" Randy Myers to the show! He and Brian Bell discuss his emotions as he prepares for his in-ring return to Defy Wrestling on Nov. 26 after winning the Defy World title over two and a half years ago, using the pro wrestling stage to promote mental health awareness, building the wacky promotion BOOM! Pro Wrestling in Vancouver and his evolution over 20-plus years in the ring!
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Nov 24, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 180: A Non-Binary Nightmare Thanksgiving
Hello, Lovelies! It's Thanksgiving, which means another chance to gorge ourselves on the best in off-the-wall pro wrestling! This year, Brian Bell and their spouse, KC, take in Max The Impaler's Tokyo Joshi Pro debut against Pom Harajuku. They unpack the moments of humor, menace and courage packed into the match, the personal connections they share with it and the spirit of "Ganbatte" within this battle!
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Nov 23, 2022
Trans Sporter Room Ep163 -- Tragedy, Controversy, Resiliency, and Victory before Thanksgiving
TRAGEDY -- Club Q. Colorado Springs, Colorado 11:53pm MST Saturday November 19, 2022. Hate and heroism.
CONTROVERSY -- FIFA World Cup 2022. Qatar. Rainbows met resistance as soccer's world championship continues
RESILIENCY -- Karleigh Webb sits down with noted policy researcher, media analyst and influencer Erin Reed (aka "Erin In The Morning) to look at the legislative outlook for trans rights, how the media has covered the issues including this weekend's shooting in Colorado, and her formidable work in the community.
VICTORY -- You could say she was the "sleeper hit" of 2022. Karleigh's last call looks at how a trivia whiz won a lot of heart and was someone we were thankful for.
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Nov 19, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 142: Dr. Nasser Mohammed on being gay in Qatar
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex speaks with Dr. Nasser Mohammed, a native Qatari who broke barriers and publicly came out as gay earlier this year. Alex and Dr. Mohammed talk about being LGBTQ in Qatar, the World Cup sportswashing Qatar's dismal record on LGBTQ rights, and the Purple Maroons, the only LGBTQ Qatari soccer fan group.
There will be no show next week due to Thanksgiving. The next episode of "The Sports Kiki" will be published on Saturday, Dec. 3!
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Nov 17, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 179: Joshua City
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome pro wrestler Joshua City to the show! He and Brian Bell discuss his 9 year journey back to the ring after being diagnosed with HIV in 2013, grappling with his diagnosis and now his desire to use pro wrestling as an avenue to educate the public and raise awareness of the realities of living with HIV. City also shares stories about training under Lance Archer, linking up with Full Queer and stepping into the ring again when he never thought he'd get the chance to do so again.
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Nov 16, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep161 -- Patricio Manuel: He's getting ready to rumble!
In December 2018, Patricio Manuel stepped into a boxing ring at a California casino for his first professional fight. He won in a decision.
He also made a piece of sports history. The former amateur champion and Olympic Trials hopeful became the first transgender man to card a professional boxing win.
The win was the end of a long road back to the ring, two years after he stepped away from something he loves to heal someone he loves -- himself.
Throughout 2022, we've been fortunate to beam up trans titans in sport, and this week Karleigh Webb sits down with another one, and Manuel says he's far from done. He hasn't stopped training. He hasn't stopped preparing for next chance. He talks about the elation, the frustration, the pride, the hope, and about a special pair of gloves that carried him from dream to dream, and how those gloves will be a part of a special volume of a tome of transgender history.
Also this week:
I'm an anti-trans bill, yes I'm an anti-trans bill.
Team USA to ro…
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Nov 15, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Skimo and more with trans athlete Wren Pyle
This Trans Awareness Week episode highlights the life of athlete Wren Pyle. Wren discusses with D.Gil her love for Skimo, her personal story of overcoming adversity, Everesting for the Trevor Project, and why trans athletes deserve to compete in athletic sports.
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Nov 14, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 141: Election results show that anti-LGBTQ scare tactics didn't work
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about how the election results show that Republican attempts to fear-monger about LGBTQ people failed. Alex also discusses Qatari officials not even hiding their disdain for gay people, and Brittney Griner getting transferred to a Russian penal colony.
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Nov 10, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 178: Ashton Starr
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome pro wrestling's own "Starrfire," Ashton Starr, to the show! He and Brian Bell discuss Ashton opening up about the trials and peaks of his pro wrestling journey in the documentary "Starrfire," the full circle moment of facing Sonny Kiss in AEW, notching multiple firsts in pro wrestling history and helping to put the Southeast back on the independent wrestling map. Starr also opens up about his new tag team, The Re-Up, with Rico Gonzalez and why he takes so much joy in seeing those around him succeed!
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Nov 9, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep160 -- TSR Election 2022 Postgame Show feature Rep.-Elect Zooey Zephyr
During a hearing at the emergence of the national anti-trans legislation tsunami in 2021. A transgender woman in Montana stepped to a microphone at a hearing and told a story of person who loved a sport, grew to love themselves, and wanted that path open to another young person who was like themselves.
The forces for exclusion had her angered and determined.
That young woman decided to just raise her voice, but also to stand on the ballot.
On the Trans Sporter Room in August 2021, Zooey Zephyr said she'd make a run for the state legislature in Montana.
On Election Night 2022, she became Montana's first-ever openly trans lawmaker in a landslide, and she beamed up to tell Karleigh Webb all about it.
Her victory was one of three in for openly trans people in races for a place in state legislatures in the country on what was a razor-thin vote nationwide.
Also this week:
Election 2022: The Big Picture
Qatar and The Critics: Where both get it wrong
Karleigh's Last Call: A thought while…
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Nov 8, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: D.Gil's Sports-Related Powerball Purchases (if he won)
The Powerball is 1.9 billion and D.Gil shares what type of sports-related purchases would be made if he had the lucky winning numbers.
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Nov 7, 2022
Krashlyn! Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris on their journey out - Five Rings To Rule Them all
Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris have become a force not just in women's soccer, but in the push for the inclusion of women and LGBT people across sports. Having come out publicly in 2019, the two wives now have two kids, two dogs and continue to compete at the highest levels of women's soccer. They talk with us this week about their recent endorsement of Align Woman’s Dual Action Probiotic, and how the idea of them being publicly out and embraced by brands like Align just a few years ago seemed impossible. Plus they talk about how exactly they manage those two careers, two kids and two dogs.
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Nov 5, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 140: Explaining the drug chart
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex speaks with Noel Ruiz of Impulse Group, an LGBTQ advocacy organization, about their viral drug chart and how it applies to the health and wellness of gay men. Alex also talks about FIFA telling its teams to stay silent about social justice issues at the World Cup.
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Nov 4, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 177: Killian McMurphy Returns!
Hello, Lovelies! Ahead of his main event match at Pro Wrestling Vibe Prime Time Vibes on Sunday, "The Shooter" Killian McMurphy returns to the show! He and Brian Bell discuss his Cassandro Cup victory, musically invading the PWI office and the continued evolution of The Goons' cinematic work. McMurphy also delves into the inspiration and motive behind his "Gay President" era and exploring the absurdities of homophobia through it. Also Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Nov 3, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 176: Kota Holliday Returns!
Hello, Lovelies! This week we're delving back into NLS territory as Kota Holliday returns to the show! She and Brian Bell discuss her experience helming NLS Is For Everyone, facing Ziggy Haim, her impromptu commentary appearance at Wrestle Queerdom and how her transition has impacted her pro wrestling career. Holliday also chats her desire to explore sports journalism, including her love for women's MMA.
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Nov 2, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep159 -- A Curious Case in North Carolina
It began as a play in an early season high school volleyball match in the small town of Highlands, North Carolina.
A skilled girl for Highlands got a perfect set, laid down a hard spike, and the opposing player wasn't ready to handle it. The ball hit the girl in the face causing an injury the forced her to leave the match. Something that happens in the sport.
A few weeks later, a school board meets on what happened in the game, and it lead to a decision for all the county high school to forfeit against Highlands. The official reason was "safety concerns".
But underneath there was hearsay about the player who dropped that scoring hit. A noted right-wing bias website blared out that the student-athlete was a transgender girl, even though her identity was never revealed publicly.
Once again, trans sport panic would strike. This time the in a small town in western North Carolina.
Or would it?
A journalist named Brittney Lofthouse, founder of a small local news blog, didn't take the school…
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Oct 29, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 139: Sounding the alarm about Qatar and LGBTQ rights before the World Cup
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex discusses the Human Rights Watch's latest report about the disturbing treatment of LGBTQ people in Qatar, and how it should be discussed heading into next month's World Cup.
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Oct 27, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 175: Power! Pride! Pro Wrestling! w/ Heather Owens
Hello, Lovelies! It's LGBT In The Ring's 3 year anniversary! And what better way to celebrate than chatting about the queer wrestling movement coming to a brand new city! Cincinnati Pride board member and former pro wrestler Heather Owens sits down with Brian Bell to chat Power! Pride! Pro Wrestling!, Cincinnati's first queer pro wrestling event.
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Oct 26, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep158 -- The Trans Women In Cars Getting Coffee Edition
Last week, Karleigh Webb was asked to come to down to a studio in New York City for an interview for a documentary project.
She ended up meeting MMA fighter Alana McLaughlin, and from there we boldly go where this podcast hasn't gone before.
Trans Women In Cars Getting Coffee!
September 10, 2021 was the day where a fighter headed into the cage with a defiant look, and a trans flag...and ended up the winner.
We caught up with McLaughlin in the middle of building a documentary on that debut fight to talk about where she's been, where she's looking good, and her take on a year where transgender Americans have been a news item and a political issue.
Also This Week
Brittney Griner Update
Elections 2022: What the candidates say about trans rights
Karleigh's Last Call: The kids are alright, and their grandparent are too!
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Oct 25, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Gayme Time Sports with Scott Ureta
Scott Ureta joins this special LGBTQ+ history month episode to discuss his gay sports Instagram page, how fortunate we are to post gay content, and we breakdown why we love what we do as content creators.
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Oct 22, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 138: Should pro soccer player Jaelene Daniels have been cut for anti-LGBTQ views?
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about the inspiring coming out stories of college football player Byron Perkins and TV sports reporter Arielle Orsuto. He also discusses pro soccer player Jaelene Daniels being cut from the North Carolina Courage, and whether she deserves to be blacklisted from the NWSL for her anti-LGBTQ views.
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Oct 18, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep157 -- Rio Pearlstein: A Golfer With Goals
Rio Pearlstein is a 17-year-old golfer at Milton Academy in Massachusetts and has been a rising star in youth golf since he was 11. Two years ago, he was his region's player of the year.
That was the same year he came out as a trans boy while pushing through being at the top of his game, and continuing to press toward a goals of playing golf in college which has been his dream.
It is a dream that has him willing to put his other life goal on hold for in a sense. He is delaying the next stage of transition to reach that summit, with all the difficulties therein. Karleigh Webb sat down with this young talent to look at navigating sport as a trans boy playing a girls team, navigating being trans in a sporting structure that is cis-centered, and finding the love of the game and competition through it all.
Also This Week
The Comedy News Anchors Strike Back
What's The Matter With Michigan?
Still Talking About Trans People, Without Talking To Trans People
The Latest Anti-Trans Boycott
L…
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Oct 15, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 137: What's the real reason for the lack of out male gay athletes?
Happy Saturday! To commemorate National Coming Out Day, Alex looks at the lack of out male LGBTQ athletes, and some of the surprising real reasons why.
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Oct 13, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 174: Kayla Sparks
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome "The Spice Ranger" Kayla Sparks to the show! She and Brian Bell discuss the 20th anniversary of her pro wrestling debut at age 14, coming back to the ring after 14 years away, coming out and how she advocates for the LGBTQ through pro wrestling. Sparks also chats her appearances with AEW and WWE, and living her dream by wrestling in a WWE ring for the first time.
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Oct 12, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep156 -- Coming Out Day Overtime: Meet Nora Reichardt
"You have to be out in the world to let people know that you are in the world."
One of the mentors of our host Karleigh Webb told her that at the start of her own journey.
Last week, a young television reporter in Des Moines, Iowa acted on that axiom boldly.
Nora J.S. Reichardt, a bright-eyed 24-year-old working up through the ranks at WOI-TV not just covered the news, last week she was the news. Reichardt stepped into her truth as a transgender woman and shared the story with most of the nation's 72nd-largest television market. Her step forward made national and global news...and she sat down with Karleigh, a former local reporter-anchor herself, to talk about coming out, inviting in, trans joy, local television news...and being a fan of your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman!
ALSO THIS WEEK
Coach Ingram meets Dr. Phil
A Spidey Smackdown?
Karleigh's Coming Out Journey
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Oct 11, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Mets Collapse? Braves Resurgence? with Paul Sanders
Avid Mets fan Paul Sanders joins D.Gil to discuss the Mets and Braves 2022 season. Did the Mets collapse or did the Braves just want the division more? Listen to hear our hot takes on the season.
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Oct 8, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 136: Eyal Feldman, CEO of Boy Butter
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex speaks with Eyal Feldman, CEO of Boy Butter, about why his lube company is now advertising during NFL games. Alex also gives his review of "Bros." He wasn't that impressed.
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Oct 6, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 173: Anton Voorhees
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome 1/3 of The Caution (caution), "The Link to the Future" Anton Voorhees, to the show! He and Brian Bell discuss his work with Hoodslam, how The Caution was formed and helping build Hoodslam's sibling promotion GLAM. Anton also discusses his coming out post from earlier this year and why it was personally difficult for him to make it.
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Oct 5, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep155 -- The Dystopia Report and Coach Ingram Meets Dr. Phil
So one of America's favorite docs, Dr. Phil, wants to talk about trans inclusion in sports and brought in some voices who are decidedly antagonistic to the discussion.
Thankfully, he also called in Pioneer award-winning college basketball Layne Ingram to the fray.
With his national television appearance coming up, we beamed up the head women's basketball coach at Lansing Community College (MI), and host of The Reconstructed Man podcast to talk about the debut and the continuation discussions about trans inclusion in sport especially for young people as the issue move forward in recent judicial action and how its making an impact as the 2022 campaign season speeds to Election Day.
And coach is gonna brag about his Michigan Wolverines as well. 😉
Also This Week:
A Locker Room In Vermont
It's not Halloween yet, but it getting creepy in Florida
Karleigh on Caitlyn
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Oct 4, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Burning Man 2022 with Cyd Zeigler
D.Gil and Outsports Co-founder Cyd Zigler share their experiences at this year's 2022 Burning Man in Black Rock City, Nevada.
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Oct 1, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 135: Mackenzie Dunford, non-binary football player
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex speaks with Mackenzie Dunford, an out bisexual and non-binary Canadian junior football player about how they're trying to make the gridiron a more inclusive place.
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Sep 28, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep154 -- Jenna Weiner: Making An Ultimate Move
Among the hundreds who have told their coming out stories through the power of sports in Outsports was a collegiate Ultimate Frisbee player in 2017 named Jenna Weiner.
At the time when a trans woman was making her first step toward her truth and her game, she sought to open the door for other like her to follow, by asking the tough questions of USA Ultimate and then bringing forth suggestions and solutions.
Many of her solutions are a major part of her sport's policies now and she and her sport aren't done innovating. This week, Karleigh Webb sits down with Weiner and looks at how its the so-called "fringe" sports that are fast becoming sport equity's "in crowd".
Also This Week:
Natalie Ryan battles in a wild final round of one of disc golf's elite events
Campaign 2022 Update: Gaines on the plains became a pain.
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Sep 24, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 134: Are girls leaving high school basketball because it's not a "pretty" sport?
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about the NBA giving Anthony Edwards a light punishment for anti-gay language, UMass Football hosting Liberty for its Pride Day and a Wall Street Journal story about why girls are fleeing high school basketball. Is it because women's basketball has the reputation of being a "gay" sport?
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Sep 22, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 172: Justine Ward
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome "Cannonball" Justine Ward to the show! They and Brian Bell discuss their journey into pro wrestling, learning the ropes during Covid and the personal triumphs Ward has found during their young career in the ring. Ward also chats about their first main event match against their trainer Covey Christ and how their long-distance swimming talents transferred into the ring!
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Sep 21, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep153 -- Aces, Races, Spaces and a Deep Dive on Ideas for Inclusion
This Week we have Aces, Races, Spaces, and a Deep Dive on some different ideas about inclusion.
ACES -- How 'bout WNBA Los Vegas Aces. A young team in the image of a go-getter head coach, and why they may be the team to beat for a while.
RACES -- We are heading into the fall running season and that means some major races ahead, and two more of the premier marathons have decided to move into the future by offering non-binary divisions for 2023
SPACES -- The state of Virginia is the latest to join the line trying to restrict and prohibit transgender school students from certain spaces, and they may have put forth the most draconian set of policies yet
THE DEEP DIVE -- Noted journalist/analyst at intersections of sport, gender, sex and society Maggie Mertens put up an interesting set of views, ideas and prospect for what inclusion could look like on the pages of The Atlantic and some didn't what they read. Karleigh dives inside and looks at what the article said, what it didn't say, and p…
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Sep 17, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 133: Introducing the only LGBTQ-focused streaming service
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex chats with Sheri Johnson, the CEO of Strong Voices Television, the only LGBTQ-focused streaming service. Alex and Sheri talk about her motivation for starting the network and her desire to broadcast LGBTQ sports to the masses. Alex also talks about Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards' anti-gay social media post, and the muted reaction from the NBA.
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Sep 16, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 171: Keita Returns!
Hello, Lovelies! Just a few days removed from CasGayDia, we welcome back 1/2 of that show's main event a triple champion Keita to the show! He and Brian Bell discuss how his rise in Without a Cause came to be, his rivalry with PrideStyle anchor Da Shade over the Princex of Pride title and his redeveloping himself into one of the West Coast's most intense and high profile stars. Keita also shares his thoughts on Relentless Wrestling, sharing the ring with Ashton Starr at CasGayDia and why he called out the QWI 200 during his battle with Billy Dixon at Big Gay Brunch Dallas!
Follow Keita on Twitter: @KEiTAyourHeart
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Sep 13, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep152 -- Trans Star Power: Leo Baker and Molly Cameron
This week's Trans Sporter Room with Karleigh Webb features two mavericks who set their own mark.
Skateboarder Leo Baker: Art Above All.
Heading into 2020, Leo Baker was one of the top skateboarders in the world. A 6-time X Games medalist, Baker was selected to the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team for Tokyo.
That was before the COVID crisis hit and postponed the games. But a few weeks before, Baker made a different decision.
For years, they had pushed up the ranks of the sport from the sidewalks and sky parks to the biggest stages while also dealing with a lot of dysphoria and questioning.
In February 2020, Baker decided the being themselves was greater than gold. They came out as transmasculine and non-binary, left Team USA and began pursuing their life.
That story is now the subject of a documentary called Stay On Board: The Leo Baker Story.
Baker beams up to talk about his path, the decision, and why skateboarding in the wild is greater than skating in grandest stage in sport.
Cyclist Molly C…
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Sep 13, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Talk'n Equestrian with Jordan Lucas
Gay equestrian athlete joins the podcast to give us insight into the equestrian sports world and how he conquers it all.
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Sep 11, 2022
The Sports Kiki 132: What makes quarterbacks so attractive?
Happy Saturday! To celebrate the start of the NFL season, Alex talks about every gay football fan's favorite topic: hot quarterbacks! He runs down a ranking of the most attractive quarterbacks in the game, and then discusses a study that seeks to answer whether QBs are *actually* the hottest.
Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1.
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Sep 8, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 170: EFFY's Big Gay Brunch 5 w/ Patches Chance
Hello, Lovelies! We're talking all things Big Gay Brunch this week as Patches Chance (Let The Wrestle) returns to help break down the 5th edition of the queer-focused pro wrestling event. They and Brian Bell discuss Jeyla Jay's return to the North American stage, throwdown featuring Ashton Starr, Sandra Moone, Devon Monroe and Jai Vidal, Parrow demolishing Kidd Bandit and intense fights with Dark Sheik, Max The Impaler and Jordan Blade!
Follow Patches Chance on Twitter: @patcheschance
Snag tickets for CasGaydia on Sept. 11 at brainbustertix.com/casgaydia
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Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM
Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod
The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
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Sep 7, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep151 -- The Post-Kiwi Farms Special Edition: Morgan Artyukhina and Jacqueline Harper-Grubb
2022 has been another rough year, but this week we saw good news. The anti-trans website Kiwi Farms was shut down, for the moment, thanks to a challenge led by a Twitch titans who was sick and tired of being sick and tired. Keffals, you done good. You done real good.
But that was a small part of a much larger fight that has intensified over the last three years. Karleigh Webb sits in with two guests with unique views of the challenge ahead.
Morgan Artyukhina is a journalist, historian and activist who discusses how the anti-trans hysteria at a number of levels affects a great deal of policy for all community and how trans liberation pays dividends for all.
We also check in on the "official official" of the Trans Sporter Room, Jacqueline Harper-Grubb. The soccer official has seen of change since we beamed her up to the TSR two years ago. She's become one of the growing number of transgender Americans who voted against legalized discrimination with her feet and rebuilt in a more-affirmin…
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Sep 3, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 131: Revisiting Manti Te'o and the gay question
Happy Labor Day! On this week's show, Alex reviews the Netflix documentary about Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend, and how the media shamefully turned the victim into a laughingstock. Alex also talks about Jon Gruden's first public comments since his anti-gay emails were unearthed 10 months ago, and NBA great Tim Hardaway reflecting on his homophobic past.
Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1.
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Sep 1, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 169: Abigail Warren
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome "La Bruja" Abigail Warren to the show! She and Brian Bell discuss her familial wrestling origins, having her first match at age 9, transitioning during her wrestling career and how her relationship with her pro wrestler father strengthened throughout the time. Warren also discusses her YouTube and podcast content, including her delving into horror and what spooked her as a kid!
Follow Abigail Warren on Twitter: @bruja_beeb
Snag tickets for CasGaydia on Sept. 11 at brainbustertix.com/casgaydia
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Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM
Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod
The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
Check out In…
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Aug 31, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep150 -- The TSR Gridiron Girls 2022 Football Preview
College Football is off and running with the first full slate ahead after a wild "Week Zero" that made our host quite happy!
The NFL has 32 teams each with final rosters of 53 readying for the race to Super Bowl LVII in Arizona
This week the TSR Gridiron Girls team of analysts provide the ins and outs on the down and outs of the 2022 football season. Karleigh Webb is joined by award-winning adult film auteur/TSR College Football Analyst Chelsea Poe, and but dodgeball demon/TSR Pro Football Analyst Shauna Adkison.
It addition to breaking down who will take home football's crown, we also discuss being athletes, being fans and being trans.
Also This Week:
TSR meets "The L Word"
Transphobia: It's why we can't have nice things
Alma Mater, praise by thine. May thy name forever shine. Hail to Purple! Hail to White! Hail to thee, NORTHWESTERN!
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Aug 27, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 130: John Edward Heath, Paralympic hopeful and veteran, on how to keep going
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex chats with John Edward Heath, an amputated veteran who's training to compete in his first Paralympics. Alex and John talk about experiencing tragedy and how to not only overcome, but stay strong.
Follow Alex on Twitter: @AlexReimer1
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Aug 25, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 168: Rubber Match Panel
Hello, Lovelies! Following Brian Bell and KC's wedding, the celebration of queer love continues as we welcome Elizabeth Brei, Kira Okamoto, Danny Djeljosevic and pro wrestler Razerwyng, the creative team behind the upcoming queer love/pro wrestling comic book "Rubber Match." The panel discusses the inspiration for the book, how they got the wrestling right and why this story could only be told as a masculine queer male love story!
Follow the team on Twitter: @peachchild, @kirameks, @djeljosevic, @Razerwyng
Snag tickets for CasGaydia on Sept. 11 at brainbustertix.com/casgaydia
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Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM
Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod
The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out th…
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Aug 24, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep149 -- Stephanie Helms: Setting Sail to Make Her Sport Better
Stephanie Helms probably could hoist mainsail before she could walk. The 68-year-old competitive sailor has been competing on the seas for most of her life and now is a key member of U.S. Sailing's diversity, equity and inclusion effort in a time were sporting governing bodies worldwides are deciding such issues intensely.
True to form, she has much to say about climate in her sport, and a lot of other sports, and is a voice that needs to be heard.
Also this week:
Thank you for many well wishes from Outsports and throughout Trans Sporter Room Galaxy with the recent passing of grandmother! I made a voyage to my own homeworld to pay my respect and to step out into the light to the people I love most. Ian McKellen was spot on when he said, "Coming out is good for you. It is good for yourself. It is good for your community. It is good for your society."
Dumb and Dumber in Deseret. We of the transgender sports community warned you about this.
FAAFO Moment: Andrew Castle meets Felix Fern,…
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Aug 20, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 129: Fighting back against bachelerotte parties
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex speaks with Dr. Laurie Essig, a professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies at Middlebury College, and the co-author of the provocative Boston Globe op-ed: "Bachelorette parties in P-town often destroy safe spaces for LGBTQ+ people." Alex and Laurie talk about the phenomenon of bachelorette parties, and what their ubiquity says about gay nightlife today.
Alex also celebrates the Buccaneers signing Carl Nassib. This could be the biggest moment in LGBTQ sports history.
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Aug 18, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 167: Gisele Shaw
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome IMPACT Wrestling's "Quintessential Diva" Gisele Shaw to the show. She and Brian Bell chat what led up to her coming out as trans during Pride month 2022, taking ownership over her journey through life and how that new confidence has manifested in the ring. She also touches on her immaculate trans pride flag gear, the support of the IMPACT Knockouts locker room and Lone Star Stampede on August 26-27.
Follow Gisele Shaw on Twitter: @GiseleShaw08
Snag tickets for CasGaydia on Sept. 11 at brainbustertix.com/casgaydia
Grab LGBT In The Ring merch on Brainbuster Tees
Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM
Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod
The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and B…
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Aug 16, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Boxing with Pharrell Shaymar
Pharrell Shaymar joins D.Gil to discuss what it means to be a boxer, his transition journey in the midst of boxing, LGBTQIA+ inclusion in the boxing community, and what it means to be an all-around good human being.
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Aug 15, 2022
Revisiting the historic 1992 Barcelona Olympics, with Zachary Draves - Five Rings To Rule Them All
The 1992 Summer Olympics were particularly historic for many reasons. It was the first Olympics after the fall of the Soviet Union. Professional athletes were first able to compete, leading to the creation of the Dream Team. Sports writer Zachary Draves is revisiting those Games this summer on their 30th anniversary, and he joins the podcast this week to talk about the big storylines and some of the athletes he's been able to interview, including Mary Joe and Gigi Fernandez, Robert Dover, Keith Frostad and others.
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Aug 13, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 128: NFL reporter Henry McKenna gives us the lowdown on Nassib
NFL training camp is in full swing, and Carl Nassib remains unsigned. On this week's show, Alex chats with Fox Sports NFL writer Henry McKenna about Nassib's status, and when it's time to legitimately wonder whether his sexuality is keeping him on the market. Alex also talks about Pitcher Solomon Bates publicly coming out as gay, and his inspiring self-confidence.
Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1.
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Aug 11, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 166: Bryn Thorne
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome the "Belle of the Brawl" Bryn Thorne to the show! As she prepares to challenge Sandra Moone for the PrideStyle title on Aug. 12, Thorne and Brian Bell discuss Thorne's start in pro wrestling when she was still a teenager, the Arizona independent wrestling scene, Party Hard Wrestling's final show and her relationship with Dark Sheik!
Follow Bryn Thorne on Twitter: @BrynofThornes
Snag tickets for CasGaydia on Sept. 11 at brainbustertix.com/casgaydia
Grab LGBT In The Ring merch on Brainbuster Tees
Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM
Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod
The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Aug 10, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep148 -- REWIND: Dr. Jaimie Veale on Sensationalism, Facts and The Press
This week in theconversation.com, a thought-provoking article called "Polarising, sensational media coverage of transgender athletes should end – our research shows a way forward" was front and center, discussing how the press covers the issue inclusion, where they get it wrong and how they can do better.
One of the authors of the scholarly examination is Dr. Jaimie Veale, Senior Lecturer in Psychology; Director, Transgender Health Research Lab, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Dr. Veale has been outspoken in the past, especially as fellow Kiwi Laurel Hubbard was making her run to the Tokyo Olympics.
In the weeks leading up to last year's Summer Olympics, Veale was beamed up to for a deep dive with our house Karleigh Webb on the Hubbard situation, and the greater of issue of how it was covered and how it affected trans communities.
This week's podcast will be a rewind of that interview, provided additional context to the article she co-wrote and bringing a sharp focus into what ha…
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Aug 7, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 165: Wrestle Queerdom
Hello, Lovelies! This week we're chatting Wrestle Queerdom, a historic show for trans and gender-diverse pro wrestling. Brian Bell and their fiance, KC, discuss the event's highs and lows, including a stellar main event between Edith Surreal and Veny, Candy Lee's double defense of the Paris Is Bumping Grand Prize championship and Aiden von Engeland introducing himself to the world! They also delve into the controversies and missteps that occurred in the leadup to the event and the uncertain future of the Trans Graps brand going forward.
Snag tickets for CasGaydia on Sept. 11 at brainbustertix.com/casgaydia
Grab LGBT In The Ring merch on Brainbuster Tees
Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM
Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod
The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitt…
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Aug 6, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 127: Brittney Griner's Russian nightmare keeps getting worse
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex discusses Brittney Griner's absurd 9.5-year prison sentence, and the sickening gloating that's going on at her expense in some right-wing circles.
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Aug 3, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep147 -- Sasha Acheson: Ally In The Scrum
Friday July 29, 2022 was a day where trans inclusion in sports took two hits in a matter of minutes.
England's Rugby Football Union voted to ban transgender women from competition in the contact sport all level, and within minutes, Rugby League revealed similar policy publicly.
The reaction at any levels of the game was critical. A number of grassroots clubs across the UK condemned the bans that have been latest to join world governing bodies in swimming and cycling, and British Triathlon in near-draconian restrictions or outright blanket bans.
One of those who vocally stood opposed was Bristol Bison head coach Sasha Acheson. Her views echoed many women in the grassroots game who opposed a ban.
A key difference: Acheson holds caps. From 2014-2019 she was a part of England's national side, in addition successful career in league play. In prior to the vote she was speaking out, including a 6-minute scholarly Instagram Live teach-in that went viral.
Karleigh Webb goes one-on-one with Ache…
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Aug 2, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: D.Gil's NFL Preview
Another NFL season is upon us and D.Gil dishes out the tea on what he thinks may happen in the 2022 NFL season.
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Jul 28, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 164: Black Girl Magik 2 w/ Spice Spiegel
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome back wrestler and creator of Black Girl Magik Spice Spiegel to the show! She and Brian Bell discuss the return of Black Girl Magik on Aug. 19, continuing its mission of showcasing Black female wrestlers and proving that they are deserving of equal spotlight. Spice details the lessons she learned from jumping into promotion before even finishing wrestling training, why the event is moving to Brooklyn and her own quest to get Dr. Pepper to sponsor her.
Follow Spice Spiegel on Twitter: @spicespiegel
Follow Black Girl Magik on Twitter: @CatchMagik
Snag tickets for CasGaydia on Sept. 11 at brainbustertix.com/casgaydia
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Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from th…
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Jul 27, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep145 --Bethany Cyrtmus and a phoenix In Austin
Imagine a team who is a hit on the field with a coach who has been there and won that, a group of players gelling together with an unbeaten record and the cup in sight.
Imagine that same team undercut by an owner who talks about winning on the field, but working against the goal by how they are running the club.
Sounds like a sports movie script? It played out this past season with Austin Elite FC in United Women's Soccer.
The team was in the middle of the season with an unbeaten team and was a national title contender when the team's owner fired the head coach without warning or reason.
Further investigation saw a horror show of bad business decisions, abuse, and players and coaches paid late when they are paid at all.
Those actions led to a player boycott, a league investigation, a season ending abruptly and a team adrift.
In the scrum of it all is Bethany Cyrtmus, a team member will versed in the challenge of change.
She always loved sports, especially the beautiful game. Her love l…
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Jul 23, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 126: Can Charles Barkley be an LGBTQ ally and work for the Saudis?
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about Charles Barkley's strong support of LGBTQ people, including his latest salvo against anti-LGBTQ bigots, and his negotiations with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf. Can he still be an LGBTQ ally while taking money from the Saudis? Alex also talks about Carl Nassib's "Good Morning America" interview and why out gay Russian tennis star Daria Kasatkina is the bravest athlete going today.
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Jul 22, 2022
3 Strikes You're Out: A League of Maybelle Blair's Own
Maybelle Blair became one of the sensations of the Tribeca Film Festival recently when the former All American Girls Professional Baseball League player was on a panel to discuss the upcoming A League of Their Own TV series. During which she came out publicly for the first time. At age 95.
As you might have guessed, she's an amazing person and a credit to Team LGBTQ. During my interview, she spelled out exactly why her coming out seemed so spontaneous and demonstrated her passion for keeping the history of the AAGPBL alive through the upcoming International Women's Baseball Center.
This is a remarkable interview and you're really going to enjoy it.
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Jul 21, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 163: Wrestle Queerdom
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome back Trans Graps founder Sally to the show to chat all things Wrestle Queerdom! She and Brian Bell discuss how North America's first all trans/non-binary/gender non-conforming pro wrestling event came together, bringing Japanese trans wrestling star Veny to the U.S. for the first time and a full preview of the card set for Aug. 6!
Follow Trans Graps on Twitter: @TransGraps
Follow Wrestle Queerdom on Twitter: @W_Queerdom
Snag tickets for CasGaydia on Sept. 11 at brainbustertix.com/casgaydia
Grab LGBT In The Ring merch on Brainbuster Tees
Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM
Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod
The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
Check out Indep…
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Jul 20, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep146 -- Jacqueline Cook opens minds as she opens holes in the WFA
Across the National Football League, training camps will be opening this week. The college game will also follow suit. America's 100-yard obsession is back again -- at least for the fellas
Women's gridiron football ended their season last week as the nation's oldest and largest women's league held their championship and all-star games last week.
Among those who earn All-Star status is Pittsburgh Passion guard Jacqueline Cook, and she did it in her rookie year.
And her return to football began with the disappointment of being told she couldn't play on a different team and a different sport because she is a trans woman. That wasn't a problem in the inclusive WFA, and each game week she make a 2-hour trek from her home in Canton, Ohio (the Hall Of Fame City) to Pittsburgh (The Steel City) and open holes for the Passion, and perhaps open minds as well.
Karleigh Webb sat down with Cook to talk about a winning first season, being trans between the white lines, and the joys of 20-sided dice.…
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Jul 19, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Pat Gotham with Pride Sports USA
Pat Gotham joins the podcast to discuss his love of recreational sports, what's it like to play in the Pride Sports USA league, and what community LGBTQ+ sports mean to him.
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Jul 16, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 125: Our disastrous response to Monkeypox
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex discusses the federal government's disastrous response to the Monkeypox outbreak with Christopher Vasquez, the comms director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, a national civil rights organization for all LGBTQ people.
Alex also talks about Carl Nassib, and why it's way too premature to say his sexuality is the reason he's still unsigned.
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Jul 14, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 162: Val Capone
Hello, Lovelies! This we welcome ring announcer/commentator/all-around beacon of positivity Val Capone to the show! She and Brian Bell discuss how she accidentally got her start in pro wrestling, her love for all things Chicago and how her approach to voicing pro wrestling is working to normalize trans and gender diverse people within its world. They also discuss experiences with bi erasure, roller derby and Val's connection to Chicago's own Capone family!
Follow Val Capone on Twitter: @valcapone
Snag tickets for CasGaydia on Sept. 11 at brainbustertix.com/casgaydia
Grab LGBT In The Ring merch on Brainbuster Tees
Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM
Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod
The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music…
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Jul 13, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep144 -- Verity Smith and Ness Murby
This week's Trans Sporter Room has our Karleigh Webb sitting down with two blokes who are getting things done in the sporting arena and making the case for inclusion.
Verity Smith: The wheelchair rugby ace is currently a frontline player for the Leeds Rhinos in the Wheelchair Super League in the UK. The Rhinos are at the top of the table, and closing in on all the trophies this season.
When not helping the Rhinos add to the trophy case, Smith is pushing for greater inclusion in sport for trans youth as the Director for Sports and Inclusion for Mermaids.UK. He's also been a voice within the halls of sporting governing bodies in making the case against the recent slate of restrictive actions against transgender people competing in sport.
Ness Murby: The Canadian Paralympian has had a busy last two years. In 2020, Murby came out as unapologetically trans and queer and mounted a drive toward being the first out trans Paralympian. His bid fell just short, but his resolve has only grown. The…
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Jul 10, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 161: Welcome To CasGaydia
Hello, Lovelies! Today is a special day for LGBT In The Ring as we announce our largest project to date: CasGaydia. The queer pro wrestling movement is coming to the Pacific Northwest on September 11 thanks to LGBT In The Ring, Without A Cause Wrestling and PrideStyle Pro, and Brian Bell is joined by Max Zaleski (WAC) and Milhouse Malott (PrideStyle) to talk about the event publicly for the first time and announce CasGaydia's first match!
Casgaydia tickets are available now at brainbustertix.com/casgaydia! All profits from Casgaydia will be donated to The Trevor Project!
Follow Without A Cause on Twitter: @WithoutACauseWA
Follow PrideStyle Pro on Twitter: @PrideStylePro
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. F…
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Jul 9, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 124: Brittney Griner's detention is generating a shamefully muted response
Happy Saturday! Alex begins this week's show with an ode to Provincetown, where he spent an incredible 4th of July Weekend. Then on a much more upsetting note, Alex discusses the shamefully muted reaction to Brittney Griner's detention in Russia.
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Jul 6, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep143 -- You Know You're A Transphobe When.......
Pride has past. America celebrates a Birthday. LGBTQ communities are gearing up for the fights to come, and its looks like there will be many.
With so much upheaval and concern the Trans Sporter Room will lock in on a critical issue within the larger context: "You Know Your A Transphobe When...."
This week, we dig into the recent discourse for a better handle on the memes, bites and talking points that influencing policy and opinion. We also who are putting these thoughts forth and why, in addition at looking at some of the headlines of this past week.
Also This Week
Some big voices speak out on newly-formed trans-negative sporting policy in sports from rugby to bowling
Brittney Griner goes to trial in Russia, and she could be facing a stacked deck
"Why do you have to mention that?" We have to explain this...again.
Courage has no age restriction
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Jul 4, 2022
Briana Scurry had to make her Greatest Save after playing for the USWNT - Five Rings To Rule Them All
Briana Scurry was the only black woman on the famous 1999 USWNT that won the women's soccer World Cup at the Rose Bowl and launched women's soccer into the national conscience. She was also the rare (at the time) out lesbian. This week she joins us to talk mostly not about that, but about her book, My Greatest Save, and saving herself from a career-ending injury and the years that followed.
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Jul 2, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 123: Out pro soccer player Collin Martin
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex chats with out pro soccer player Collin Martin about his coming out and why it was a "living nightmare" when his team forfeited a game after he was called an anti-gay slur by an opponent.
Enjoy the 4th!
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Jun 30, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 160: Jensen Ryan
Hello, Lovelies! Pride month is coming to a close, but we're making a special trip across the Atlantic to welcome "The Dark Prince" Jensen Ryan to the show. He and Brian Bell discuss his journey to overcome presumed homophobia to take a chance on his wrestling dreams, how the British wrestling scene has changed amid the wider LGBTQ pro wrestling movement and his fascination with ghosts and hauntings!
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Jun 29, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep142 -- Viva Transphobia Vegas! and Mallory Moore on the current state of organized transphobia
The final weekend of Pride 2022 saw representative of many group claiming to lobby for women's sports meet in Las Vegas, and affirm an the aggressive anti-transgender posture that has attempted to set policy and public opinion both in the U.S. and abroad.
This week's podcast will feature a recap of this weekend's convention of the newly formed Independent Council of Women's Sports.
Trigger Warning: Many speakers and panelist said the quiet parts aloud.
Also this week, Karleigh Webb sits down with Mallory Moore. The UK based researcher has been on the trail of the figures and the finance behind a good deal of the anti-trans propaganda that seems to draw support and ire, and they share their insights and their research.
She also talks about what drives her to dig deep, and how roller derby has been a place to release and recharge.
Pride month may be ending, the fightback continues.
Also This Week:
Ness Murby Makes More History
Verity Smith Clutches The Cup
Charlie Martin At The Glen…
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Jun 28, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: LGBTQ+ Sports Advocacy with Micah Porter
LGBTQIA+ sports advocate and newly appointed LinkedIn Top LGBTQIA+ Voice Micah Porter joins D.Gil to chat about his career focused on LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sports.
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Jun 26, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 159: Paris Is Bumping: The Legends Ball
Hello, Lovelies! We're back for the second time this week covering the second night of Pro Wrestling VIBE Pride & VIBE Weekend, Paris Is Bumping: The Legends Ball. Brian Bell and their fiance, KC, discuss the historic night, including the first all-trans-femme main event ever, the return of the most sexual and sweatpants-laden match, and a new class of Paris Honors!
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Jun 25, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 122: They're coming for LGBTQ rights next
On this week's edition of "The Sports Kiki," Alex talks about FINA's cruel and unjust ban on transgender women from competing in elite international swimming competitions, shutting down Lia Thomas' Olympic hopes. He also gives a commentary on the Supreme Court overturning Roe, and how LGBTQ rights are next.
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Jun 23, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 158: Cassandro Cup 2
Hello, Lovelies! We're all still basking in the revelry that was Pro Wrestling VIBE's Pride & VIBE Weekend, so let's talk about it some more! Brian Bell and their fiance, KC, sit down after being live in the building to recap and discuss the weekend's first event, Cassandro Cup 2. A supreme battle between Edith Surreal and Trish Adora, the PWV Tag Team title picture coming into focus and Kidd Bandit getting spanked with a spatula: it was a lot. Plus the first queer royal rumble for the Cassandro Cup and Billy Dixon's intense final battle with Darius Carter before retirement. Emotional doesn't even begin to describe the night!
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Jun 22, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room SPECIAL REPORT: The Worldwide Ban of 2022
In March the IOC's much-discussed Framework for Fairness went into effect.
Within the last 5 days, the world governing bodies for cycling and swimming essentially ignored those guidelines.
FINA's new guideline is harsh. A lowered testosterone limit, and a mandate that a potential competitor would have to transition by age 12 to be eligible to take a chance at a world or Olympic Championships.
Karleigh Webb host and extended Trans Sporter Room filled with news, views and analysis along with a group of guests who speak to the multi-sided facets of the discussion.
Alejandra Caraballo is a lawyer specializing in trans right and the Clinical Instructor at the Harvard University Law School. She'll touch on the legal aspect and will look at the issue from the eyes of her experience as a competitive swimmer.
Shauna Adkisson is a super sports fan, a queer sports leader in her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, and she's also a special correspondent to the Trans Sporter Room. She'll have the fan per…
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Jun 20, 2022
Olympic champion Angela Ruggiero is now a successful businesswoman - Five Rings To Rule Them All
Angela Ruggiero has the Olympic medal trifecta: gold, silver and bronze. Since retiring from ice hockey, she's focused on becoming a successful businesswoman. That has taken her to the board room in 'The Apprentice' and now CEO of Sports Innovation Lab, which examines market research to help brands figure out the behavior of sports fans. While she's built a successful business, she has had to navigate a business world dominated by straight men.
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Jun 18, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 121: The disgusting pushback against Red Sox Pride Night
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex praises the words of straight MLB allies Liam Hendriks and Kevin Youkilis, and expresses his concern over the venomous pushback to Red Sox Pride Night on social media.
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Jun 16, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 157: Eddy McQueen
Hello, Lovelies! With only one day until Pro Wrestling VIBE's Pride & VIBE Weekend festival, we welcome another icon that carved a path for LGBTQ people in the wrestling world, Eddy McQueen. He and Brian Bell discuss the LGBTQ pro wrestling festival, his upcoming induction into Paris Honors and his fight to be taken seriously in pro wrestling in a less LGBTQ-friendly era. McQueen also touches on the mental toll wrestling takes on those in it and how he found balance through beauty.
Follow Eddy McQueen on Twitter: @Thefabulouslif3
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Jun 15, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep140 -- Ina Fried on Covering Technology, Covering Transness and Covering the Olympics
Since becoming the chief technology correspondent at Axios in 2017 Journalist Ina Fried has been a voice in covering the biggest pieces of what is coming next.
It should be no surprise in a nearly 30-year journalism, she's always been ahead of curve. She even pursued her truth ahead of curve, as a journalist at CNET 20 years ago.
Last summer, she was on the scene at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. As perhaps the only trans journalist covering the games, she covered some of key people that made these games the gayest, queerest, most transtastic in history.
Fried sits down with out Karleigh Webb to talk about Tokyo, tech and the state of being trans in a tenuous time.
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Jun 14, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Pride and Soul with Nicholas Spadaro
Nicholas Spadaro is loud, proud, and a gay athlete. Listen as he joins D.Gil to discuss his sports background, his journey as a Soulcycle instructor, and what pride means to him personally.
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Jun 13, 2022
Kristie Mewis on the Olympics, falling in love with Sam Kerr and being out - Five Rings To Rule Them All
Kristie Mewis was one of the most-discussed athletes at Outsports ahead of and during the Tokyo Summer Olympics. The question we wrestled with was whether she was publicly out as an LGBTQ athlete. Because we couldn't find a definitive answer to her being out, we decided she was not; Yet she considered herself publicly out because she was living her life openly. When her girlfriend, Sam Kerr, posted an image of them kissing shortly after the Olympics, all questions were answered. Mewis joins us this week to talk about that, the Olympics and her Title IX promotion with Six Star Nutrition celebrating female athletes and giving away jerseys.
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Jun 11, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 120: Michael Powell of the New York Times talks Lia Thomas
Happy Saturday! This week, Alex chats with Michael Powell of the New York Times, who recently wrote the feature story, "What Lia Thomas could mean for women's elite sports." Alex asks Michael about his approach towards reporting on a divisive topic and where he sees the debate going from here. Alex also admonishes the Rays for their Pride Night fiasco.
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Jun 9, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 156: Sandra Moone
Hello, Lovelies! We're going to the Subspace Division this week as we welcome "Lightning in a Bottle" Sandra Moone to the show. She and Brian Bell discuss her upcoming match against Papa Jace to crown the first PrideStyle Pro champion, the importance of breaking out of your comfort zone and her growing national presence on the independent pro wrestling scene. Moone also talks about coming out as pansexual during Pride month one year ago and the unique approach she and #S4TB take with their own promotion, Graphouse.
Follow Sandra Moone on Twitter: @SandraMoonepie
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Jun 8, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep139 -- The Future in the UK and a Pioneer in Canada
Pride 2022 is in Week Two, and our host Karleigh Webb is tanned, rested, ready and rather upset at the landscape -- especially Florida and Ohio
But the guest this week make up for it, one is future voice making her mark, the other is a pioneer back in the saddle
The Future: 14-year-old Emily Williams has spoken out for trans kids like herself in the UK since came out, teamed up with her loving mom Emma, they been a family in resistance, even while dealing with a piece of the current anti-trans media crush there. Also, Emily lived a dream last weekend, with a little help from Truk United FC
The Pioneer: Savannah Burton made history in 2015 as the first transgender Canadian to earn a place on a national team for an international competition when she made Team Canada Dodgeball and helped the team win a silver medal at the world championships that year. She also fought a successful fight to take down archaic regulations that hampered trans participation in the sport, which affect policy in…
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Jun 7, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Pride with Eli Danielson
Eli Danielson joins the podcast to discuss his background in sports, his coming out story, and why it's important to share coming out stories such as his. Happy Pride Month!
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Jun 4, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 119: Patriots rebuke homophobic fans
Happy Pride Month! On this week's show, Alex credits the New England Patriots for publicly rebuking homophobic fans, and former NFL tight end Desmond Clark for posting a heartfelt message addressed to his transgender son. To close out the show, Alex shares what he's most thankful for this Pride Month.
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Jun 2, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 155: IWTV World Champ AC Mack
Hello, Lovelies! We're kicking off Pride month in supreme fashion as IWTV World champion AC Mack returns to the show. He and Brian Bell discuss his historic title win in Jan. 2022, making pro wrestling history as the first out LGBTQ male world champion and the continued impact of that moment some five months later. They also discuss Mack's episode of IWTV's "The Life Of" docuseries, bringing Uncharted Territory to the South and finding love.
Follow AC Mack on Twitter: @AC_Mack
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Jun 1, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep138 -- Pride 2022: The Fightback, Fighting Golf, and The Future Is Now
The first show of Pride 2022 sees Karleigh Webb fresh off a birthday, Hailey Davidson set to tee off and fresh new face comes back to the Trans Sporter Room.
This week, Hailey Davidson, the first solo guest of the Karleigh Era, comes back for a preview of the upcoming Colorado Women's Open. It will be the biggest tournament of her career thus far and she talks about the work she's put in to upgrade her game to be ready, the success she has found in the '22 season, and why being a role model matters.
Also joining us is a 12-year-old swim star in the making, who told us about a research project they put together on popular perceptions of the issue of transgender participation in competitive sports. We beam them up again to present their findings.
HAPPY PRIDE!!!!!!
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May 28, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 118: Warriors reporter gets caught with horrible homophobic tweets
Happy Memorial Day Weekend! On this week's show, Alex talks about U.S. soccer officially banning anti-LGBTQ chants, and Warriors reporter Mark Haynes getting caught with at least 56 hateful tweets from his past. But the way they were uncovered is pretty odious.
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May 27, 2022
3 Strikes, You're Out: Dodgers Pride with Erik Braverman
It's time for Dodgers Pride Night!
My guest on today's episode is Dodgers Senior Vice President Erik Braverman and he takes us through the growth of his team's Pride promotion into the most popular event of its kind in Major League Baseball. We also highlight the history making game with the arch-rival Giants where both teams will be taking the field in rainbow insignia caps. And perhaps most importantly, we celebrate the return of Glenn Burke's family to throw out the Pride Night first pitch and reconnect the Dodgers to one of the most important trailblazers in team history.
Twitter: @KenSchultz_ @ErikBraverman
Insta: @kenthinguy @erik_braverman
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May 26, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 154: Billy Dixon
Hello, Lovelies! This one is going to be emotional, y'all. "The Business" Billy Dixon returns to the show one more time before they close this chapter in their pro wrestling journey. Dixon and Brian Bell discuss what factored into their decision to retire, the mental health and self-worth issues pro wrestling presents and what they want young wrestlers to learn from their example. Dixon also chats Pride & Vibe Weekend, Paris Honors, dropping the Chocolate City championship to Andino and his final match against Darius Carter at Cassandro Cup II.
Follow Billy Dixon on Twitter: @TheBillyDixon
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Tickets for Pride & Vibe Weekend are available here
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May 25, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep137 -- A Week of History and a Celebration of the Future
A lot of history in this week's transporter room.
This week, three years ago, a transgender woman walked into court in Connecticut, and walked out with the name she chose to represent who she is.
Three days after that she saw CeCé Telfer make NCAA history and a few weeks later she was writing for Outsports.
Around that same time, a freshman softball pitcher at the University of Scranton was battling on the field, while continuing wrestling who they were as a person.
In that same moment, a young woman who had ambitions with pro golf was navigating a year in Law School.
In this last year, these three lives have intertwined. The pitcher, now Scranton senior E Kerr, left the game because identity meant more. and explained why on the Trans Sporter Room in October.
In January, with the intense scrutiny surrounding Lia Thomas, the tour hopeful-turned-law student, Maya Reddy organized a mass response of support for the senior student-athlete who was seeking to make the history Telfer did.
Int…
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May 21, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 117: Pro soccer player Jake Daniels coming out and the issue of heteronormativity
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about 17-year-old English pro soccer Jake Daniels coming out, and how he's been widely embraced. But is he being embraced because he presents as heteronormative? Alex weighs in on the conversation. Plus, sports broadcaster Megan Barnard speaks out after being outed by a now-fired co-worker.
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May 20, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 153: Out In The Ring Director Ry Levey
Hello, Lovelies! "Out In The Ring," the documentary chronicling the history of LGBTQ identities in pro wrestling, has a premiere date, so it's only natural that we welcome back the film's director, Ry Levey, to chat about making the film and its significance ahead of its debut June 3 at the Toronto Inside Out Film Festival.
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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May 18, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep136 -- The Puget Sound Pronouns: Made In Seattle
Seattle, Washington.
A city that seems to groove to a beat all its own. It seems to zig when much of country zags.
It's known for grey flannel skies with a soundtrack of raw grunge.
It the place where a space needle once took up space on the jersey of the city's first winner. Its the town that gave us Supersonics, Kid Griffey, Ichiro...and "Baby Got Back"
It's the sports town that dared to embraced the beat of the Sounders, that welcomes the Storm, and now releases the Kraken.
In this city lives a proud lady named Brittney Miller. steeped in Seahawk blue-silver and Cougar crimson-grey fiercely worn through many Apple Cups, she loves to the hit and field in softball, and she can play. Just ask her ;)
A year ago , Miller decided to celebrate her game and her journey by starting a team built to bring those usually left on the bench into the fray.
She picked quite the name for this squad: Puget Sound Pronouns
For real. The Pronouns.
But as she as founder/manager and her front office right…
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May 16, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 116: Should Mark Jackson have to address anti-gay rumors before getting another NBA coaching job?
Happy Saturday! Alex talks about some enraging topics on this week's show, including more allegations of homophobia against Mark Jackson and outrageous comments from golf legend Greg Norman about discrimination against LGBTQ people.
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May 12, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 152: Darwin Finch
Hello, Lovelies! This we're taking a trip to the nerdy side of life as we welcome "The Punk Rock Poindexter" Darwin Finch to the show! They and Brian Bell discuss them finding a home at Santino Bros. in Los Angeles, their journey in defining their gender, fighting back against stereotypes and expanding the definition of a nerd. Finch also speaks about their close relationship with Kidd Bandit and the recent match between the two that framed Finch as an inspirational force at Santino Bros.
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Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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May 11, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep135 -- Natalie Washington and Football v. Transphobia: Earning Promotion
The Beautiful Game. The World's Game. Football, or Soccer to us North American types has not only been a vehicle of entertainment, but has often been a vessel for advocacy, activism, protest and progress. From anti-racist and anti-fascist efforts born of the 1980s and 1990s to the more recent struggle between democratization and unfettered monetization of the sport, the pitch has often been political.
In 2010, Football v. Homophobia was started in response to the sporting culture that was seen as unwelcoming, especially in the sports ancestral home, Britain. The effort, much like the Kick It Out anti racism movement a generation before spread across world.
In 2019, a effort along this same line was started, Football v. Transphobia. The goal is to make a dent in growing transphobia within the UK, that was showing up on the street as well as the stadium terraces.
At person has the lead is Natalie Washington, a football-loving trans woman who is at home discussing why inclusion and repres…
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May 10, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Being the Best Role Model You Can Be with Rhys Moore
Rhys Moore joins the podcast again to discuss what it means to be a good role model, how queer role models are needed, and the impact good role models can be in our lives.
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May 7, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 115: The Madison Cawthorn saga
Happy Saturday! Alex covers several topics on this week's show, including the latest on Brittney Griner, and his outrage over the commentary about Madison Cawthorn's leaked videos.
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May 5, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 151: Pollo Del Mar Returns!
Hello, Lovelies! We're back after a week off, and who better to brighten your spirits than the "Manager of Champions" Pollo Del Mar. Pollo and Brian Bell discuss her growing presence within GCW, her relationship with GCW owner Brett Lauderdale and accompanying Dark Sheik to the ring during GCW's San Francisco debut. They also discuss Pollo's growing presence in the NWA and her upcoming lip sync battle against Washy Heights at Pride & Vibe Weekend!
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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May 4, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep134 -- Danielle McLean and a Difficult Day of Leaked Decision
When Danielle McLean was a high school hockey player, growing up in hockey-mad Boston, she fought a 7-game series against Hodgkin's lymphoma. Her favorite game is what helped pull her through.
A few years later, she skated forward to embrace her truth and forge through her transition. Hockey was her canvas. A safe space. A place to belong.
On April 20, she put words to emotions to CNN.com and gave her view and her story, with the backdrop of the continuing "debate" over trans people in sport, and what position they should play. She wrote of a person who found acceptance between the blue lines, and comrades in the creases. Those comrades include those in the Team Trans Hockey locker room.
McLean sat down with Karleigh Webb to talk about her story, her Boston Bruins, and her view of what we are seeing. This conversation came as the larger issues loomed with gathering storm clouds with the news of the leak on a U.S. Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade that could greatly change the struc…
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May 2, 2022
Olympian Keith Frostad shares stories of homophobia and support around the 1992 Olympics - Five Rings To Rule Them All
Keith Frostad wasn't out publicly in the media around the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, but he was known to be gay in the elite swimming world. When he talked about all of this with Zachary Draves of Nuts & Bolts Sports, he shared publicly for the first time intimate details of being harassed repeatedly by male swimmers on Team USA and at the University of Texas. He also found strength in the support he received from some swimmers, including many on the women's teams. And his attempt to reach the 1996 Olympics gave him a heart-warming story of support that remains with him to this day. He shares with us details of his experiences, including apparent pressure from representatives of the US Olympic Committee to stay quiet about being gay at the Olympics.
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Apr 30, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 114: Gay college soccer captain Couper Gunn shares his sexual assault survivor story
This week, Alex welcomes on Couper Gunn, captain of the men's soccer team at Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire. Couper shares his sexual assault survivor history and talks about why he's going public with his experiences.
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Apr 27, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep133 -- Election 2022: Trans Athletes Are An Issue? Really?
As Americans ponder upcoming primary elections and the off-year campaigns in fall 2022, Australians will held to the polls for a general election on May 21.
You'd figure issues like the COVID, climate change, taxation, inflation and the Ukraine crisis would be front and center.
Would you believe, all of those are jockeying for position with...wait for it.... "THOSE TRANS ATHLETES WHO ARE THREATENING WOMEN'S SPORTS!"
In recent weeks as more as more anti-trans legislation piles up across America, and you are seeing the face of Lia Thomas in more campaign ads, Australia's threatened ruling party has gone all-in on transphobia, American style, right up to naming names and spreading blame.
Among those names being thrown around to sell fear are pioneers in sport and trans rights. One of those, rugby and track athlete Caroline Layt sits in with Karleigh Webb to give a picture of how a desperate ruling party is trying to sell transphobia, that is many ways was made in the USA.
Also this week:…
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Apr 26, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Yet Another Reason Why LGBTQ+ Representation Matters In Sports
D.Gil discusses yet why LGBTQ+ inclusion in sports is necessary after experiencing homophobic and transphobic rhetoric this past weekend.
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Apr 23, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 113: Being #FlippingExhausted over anti-trans sports bans
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about the #FlippingExhausted campaign to protest anti-trans sports ban, and his spot on a very desirable list. Alex also discusses NHL player Andrew Shaw's self-described evolution on LGBTQ issues, the WWE making light of same-sex marriage and more.
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Apr 22, 2022
3 Strikes, You're Out: Dale Scott Returns
What's this? A new 3 Strikes, You're Out episode?! As Vin Scully would say, "The impossible has happened!"
This week, retired major league umpire Dale Scott is back to discuss his excellent new memoir The Umpire Is Out. We talk about some of the professional challenges he overcame during his career and how it felt to endure them while remaining in the closet publicly. Dale also tells the truly excellent story of meeting his husband Mike and how their relationship really helped him get through the difficulties of establishing himself in the big leagues.
As always, Dale is very funny and immensely likable and you'll really enjoy the conversation!
Twitter: @KenSchultz_ @DaleScottMLB5
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Apr 21, 2022
LGBT IN The Ring Ep. 150: J-Rose Returns!
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome pro wrestling creative and one of the best ring announcers in the game J-Rose back to the show! He and Brian Bell discuss his new promotion, Naptown All-Pro, its focus on community outreach and building spaces for Black and queer fans in his hometown of Indianapolis. J-Rose also discusses the deeply personal motivations for connecting Naptown All-Pro to efforts to curtail gun violence in the city and build a pro wrestling presentation that honors the spirit of the city he calls home.
Follow J-Rose on Twitter: @thisisjrose
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Apr 20, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep132 -- Spotlight Special: Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud
As the legislative and regulatory tidal wave against trans people in and out of sports rises, those who are causing that wave are getting bolder. From anti-trans groups backed by anti-trans organizations with deep pockets to politicians from the Beltway to Brisbane trying to win votes, this wave is greatly affecting trans communities with negative results.
The recent situations in the sports world have been at the center of strategy for this wave. What accelerated with American college swimmer Lia Thomas has now at warp speed with the recent situation surrounding British cyclist Emily Bridges.
This week Karleigh Webb shines the TSR Spotlight on this heightened level of aggression, the theories behind it, and how fans, supporters and athletes must come step up and speak out to confront it, with aid of voices across the vast spectrum of the issue.
Warning: Some of those voice are not friendly.
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Apr 17, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 149: GCW For The Culture 2022
Hello, Lovelies! It's a little late, but we're closing the book on our WrestleMania week coverage by discussing GCW For The Culture, a celebration of Black pro wrestling. Brian Bell and their fiance, KC, team up to discuss the entire card, from AJ Gray and Darius Lockhart's clash of styles to Trish Adora and MJ Jenkins' stellar outing. They also delve deep into the historic deathmatch main event between Billy Dixon and Hoodfoot, the first all-Black deathmatch in pro wrestling history.
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Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Apr 16, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 112: How Magic Johnson came to love his gay son
Happy Saturday! This week, Alex talks about an interview Magic Johnson and his gay son, EJ, gave about their evolving relationship, and how their story shows the complexities of people. Alex also talks about the Texas Rangers yet again not holding an LGBTQ Pride Night and more!
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Apr 13, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep131 -- TSR HOME AND HOME WITH TALK TOWN DENMARK
In January Danish trans woman volleyball player Nadia Jacobsen and cybersecurity specialist/podcast host Maia Kahlke Lorentzen were beamed up to the Trans Sporter Room to discuss sports, inclusion and fighting the transphobes as their homeland's sports confederation revamped there transgender inclusion policies.
In April, they gave us a virtual welcome to Denmark via a conversation as part of Talk Town, a conference on feminism in equality held in Copenhagen each spring. With the 2022 conference coming up in May, TSR host Karleigh Webb was invited to be a part of a discussion on inclusion looking at where we've gone and what comes ahead as this issue is becoming global in the time since Lia Thomas' NCAA triumph and with the next person will debated looming, even with the decision not to allow Emily Bridges to compete in the last week.
Also this week:
A Good Man In Alabama
The latest on Brittney Griner
How You Tell When Transphobes Just Wanna Transphobe
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Apr 9, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 111: The special relationship between MLB and LGBTQ Pride
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about MLB Opening Day, and the special relationship baseball teams seem to enjoy with their cities' LGBTQ communities. Pride Nights in baseball just seem to mean more. Alex also discusses some of the more curious aspects of Lia Thomas' NCAA Championship performance and highlights a young gay field hockey star who's also a makeup enthusiast.
Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1.
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Apr 8, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 148: WrestleMania 38 Night 2 w/ Darnell Mitchell
Hello, Lovelies! Night two of WrestleMania 38 is the topic today, and we welcome back Darnell Mitchell to unpack a wild night in Dallas. He and Brian Bell discuss Triple H's retirement, Pat McAfee's glorious himbo energy, Sami Zayn and Johnny Knoxville delivering the most fun WWE match in years and a solid Women's Tag Team title match. Also, Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns.
Follow Darnell Mitchell on Twitter: @fabulousdnell
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Apr 7, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 147: EFFY's Big Gay Brunch Dallas w/ Diana Ramsey
Hello, Lovelies! It's time to make Texas queerer! We welcome Divine Diana Ramsey to the show to discuss EFFY's Big Gay Brunch Dallas. She and Brian Bell discuss violent clashes between Max The Impaler and Edith Surreal, Dark Sheik and Parrow and Keita and Billy Dixon. They also discuss Kidd Bandit's BGB debut, celebrate the legend Pimpinela Escarlata and so much more from the queerest show of WrestleMania week!
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
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Apr 7, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 146: WrestleMania 38 Night 1 w/ Patches Chance
Hello, Lovelies! WrestleMania week is over, which means it's time to relive and unpack it all on LGBT In The Ring! We kick off our coverage by welcoming Patches Chance (Let Them Wrestle) to chat night one of WrestleMania 38. From Bianca's conquest of Becky Lynch to Cody Rhodes' return to Stone Cold's final match, they and Brian Bell hit the highs and lows of the first of two wild nights in Dallas!
Follow Patches Chance on Twitter: @patcheschance
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Apr 6, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep130 -- Dr. Veronica Ivy
She has the nickname, "Her Thighness".
A plain-speaking Ph.D. from Canada with a dash of snark, a lot of heart, and a love for what she calls "chess and dueling on bikes"
Dr. Veronica Ivy has won two UCI masters track cycling world championships and is training for a attempt to win another with the return of the championship event after a 2-year COVID hiatus.
From her first title in 2018, she has stood out and spoke out from trans rights in sports, and she does without apology.
She's given master classes at the intersection of sporting policy and human rights in classrooms, lecture halls, and in some of the toughest rooms in news media.
This week she gets beamed up to our room for a sit down with Karleigh Webb that gets underneath the aero helmet for a probing interview that gets into the athlete, the activist, and a self-described "chick who just want to play sports".
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Anti-trans attorney general threaten Biden Administration over trans student-athletes
After Lia: Emil…
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Apr 2, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 110: Get ready for the Emily Bridges story
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about Emily Bridges, the transgender cyclist who won championships against men, and is now slated to compete against women. This promises to be an even bigger story than Lia Thomas. Alex also provides an update on the Brittney Griner situation and asks when the NFL will mandate that teams must hire LGBTQ.
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Apr 1, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 145: Sonya Deville
Hello, Lovelies! In a special WrestleMania week bonus episode, we welcome WWE's Sonya Deville to the show! She and Brian Bell discuss the big two-day event this weekend, LGBTQ visibility in WWE and pro wrestling as a whole, Deville's work with LGBTQ advocacy organizations and her heavily memed moment from Total Divas.
Follow Sonya Deville on Twitter: @SonyaDevilleWWE
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
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Mar 31, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 144: EFFY Is Fine
Hello, Lovelies! It's WrestleMania week, which means the return of GCW's The Collective and EFFY's Big Gay Brunch! So it's only natural that we welcome EFFY back to the show to chat about making Texas gayer. He and Brian Bell discuss Saturday's Big Gay Brunch card, including EFFY's match against lucha leyenda Pimpinela Escarlata, his "Terry Funk-esque" run over the last year and why using the Big Gay Brunch to raise money for the Transgender Education Network of Texas is vital to the event's mission.
Follow EFFY on Twitter: @EFFYlives
EFFY's Big Gay Brunch airs live on FITE this Saturday, April 2, at 12pm ET/9am PT
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Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod
The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
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Mar 30, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep129 -- Match Of The Day of Visibility: Lucy Clark and Natalie Washington
On Thursday night March 31, 2022 at a small stadium south of London, England, there will be a rather special match on fixture. The match will make soccer history on Transgender Day of Visibility.
Dulwich Hamlet FC, a women's squad at the top of a league table in the fifth division will meet TRUK United FC, the soccer team organized by Trans Radio UK.
The TRUK United FC side will be composed entirely of players who are transgender women. Perhaps the first such side organized in the English FA, and possibly in the entire world.
Joining Karleigh Webb to give a preview of this special match are one of the key voices for sport and inclusion in the UK and a trans pioneer in "The Beautiful Game".
Lucy Clark is the team's manager and the teams midfield "Number 10" playmaker. In 2018 she became the first out transgender person of officiate an FA league game, and now is a referee in the third level of the women's pyramid.
Natalie Washington is the head of the Football v. Transphobia campaign, th…
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Mar 29, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: An Epic Sports March Madness
D.Gil spills the tea on a variety of epic sports topics that happened this month that truly encompassed the term "March Madness",
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Mar 26, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 109: Should Thom Brennaman get another chance?
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about Cyd Zeigler's feature story on Thom Brennaman, and whether he deserves a second chance after uttering a gay slur on-air 18 months ago. Cyd spoke solely to other LGBTQ people, who rightfully were the ones telling the story. They all say Brennaman is doing the work, and it sure looks like it.
Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1.
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Mar 24, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 143: Dark Sheik Returns!
Hello, Lovelies! It's west coast all day this week as we welcome back the High Priestess of the Church of Wrestling, Dark Sheik! She and Brian Bell discuss her rise in GCW over the last year, including memorable battles with Nick Gage and Allie Katch, and bringing the influential promotion she founded, Hoodslam, back to crowds of thousands in the Bay Area. Sheik also discusses her upcoming Wrestlemania weekend matches against Charles Mason and Parrow and being named to the second class of Paris Honors!
Follow Dark Sheik on Twitter: @darksheikftf
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Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Mar 23, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep128 -- After Atlanta, and The Captain Returns
Last week, pride, prejudice and history came together at the NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships.
It was end of the line in the Lia Thomas saga. It ended with some bittersweet success, and with controversy that parachuted in from the U.S. and the UK.
What followed was a run of records, cheer, tears, a dominant Virginia, Iszac Henig with the tattoo of the week and move over, Ms. Telfer, make room for Ms. Thomas as trans student-athletes who can also call themselves National Champions
And look who returned to this bridge from the "away team" in Atlanta. Our old captain and podcast co-founder Dawn Ennis, now of Forbes, RETURNS!!! and talks about a week of history, destiny...and dust up with an infamous TERF.
Welcome back aboard, Captain.
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Mar 21, 2022
Olympian Nicole Heavirland came out after years of telling herself she never could - Five Rings To Rule Them All
Nicole Heavirland had told herself for many years that she couldn't be gay and certainly could never come out. Growing up in Montana, it just wasn't done. Now the Olympic rugby player for Team USA is coming out and finding love and accolades from family and friends. She hopes to inspire other athletes to be their true selves.
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Mar 19, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 108: The complexities of the Brittney Griner case
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about the complexities of the Brittney Griner case, and why raising widespread outrage may not be the best way to pressure Russia. Alex also talks about Lia Thomas' success at the NCAA Championships and why Carl Nassib's release has NOTHING to do with homophobia.
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Mar 17, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 142: Mateo Valentine
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome "The Fat, Femme Asian Sensation" Mateo Valentine to the show! Valentine and Brian Bell chat transitioning from theater to pro wrestling, NLA Is For Everyone and his continued advocacy for queer POC and Asian-American representation.
Follow Mateo Valentine on Twitter: @mateovalentine8
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
Check out IndependentWrestling.tv for the best in current and classic independent pro wrestling, including live events from top independent promotions worldwide. Use promo code “LGBTRingPod” or visit tinyurl.com/IWTVLGBT
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Mar 16, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep127 -- Chelsea Poe on trans athletics, trans rights and weaponizing trans bodies
One of the points of discussion of those who have been adversaries of transgender women in sport specifically is how a person body is used against them as evidence that they "don't belong".
In the current discourse leading into this week's NCAA Division Swimming and Diving championships, the bodies of both transgender student-athletes competing, Penn's Lia Thomas and Yale's Iszac Henig, have been studied, discussed and in some cases weaponized .
It is something seen before in sport, but this case seems hit some more raw places, especially when Lia Thomas, as a transgender woman, is the center of this conversation
To get a perspective on it, Karleigh Webb sits down to have a discussion on this critical underlying issue with someone for whom such issues are her business, and question on justice surrounded anthem has been her cause. Chelsea Poe is fast becoming a top-drawer erotic filmmaker and performer, with a global performer of the year award to her credit in 2021, and she's only 30.…
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Mar 15, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Sports Marketing & More with Zeke Goldsmith
D.Gil is joined by Drexel University student Zeke Goldsmith to share his thoughts on marketing in sports, his plans post-graduation, and innovative programs for LGBTQ inclusion at Drexel University.
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Mar 12, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 107: The big deal about NBA players' old anti-gay tweets
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex discusses Outsports' expose into old anti-gay tweets from 40 NBA players, and why their words matter -- regardless of when they were written. Alex also examines the shameful lack of coverage surrounding Britney Griner's Russian detainment.
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Mar 10, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 141: AEW Revolution 2022 w/ Colette Arrand
Hello, Lovelies! We're talking AEW Revolution this week with FanFyte's own Colette Arrand. She and Brian Bell discuss their favorite moments from the show, including the significance of CM Punk and MJF's dog collar match, Eddie Kingston topping Chris Jericho and Sting's balcony dive. They also discuss how the battle of Adams solidified Adam Page as a champion in our eyes.
Follow Colette Arrand on Twitter: @colettearrand
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Mar 9, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep126 -- Rep. Stephanie Byars: Sunflower Power
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Mar 7, 2022
Paul Poirier competed in his second Olympics and his first after coming out - Five Rings To Rule Them All
Paul Poirier came out publicly as gay last year, and then competed in the Beijing Winter Olympics. He and ice dance partner Piper Gilles has a top-10 finish, dressed in stunning outfits for both programs. Now they are focused on professional figure skating, even while Poirier keeps a third Olympics in his sights. Production note: Please excuse the static that clicks from time to time through the podcast.
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Mar 5, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 106: Good on Red Sox for immediately releasing prospect after anti-gay tweets
Happy Saturday! Alex is refreshed and recharged after his vacation, and ready to talk to the people. This week, he applauds the Red Sox for immediately releasing a racist and homophobic prospect, and condemns MLB owners for their selfish lockout. Alex also discusses Sports Illustrated's interview with Lia Thomas, and why it's a shame nuance gets lost in the debate.
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Mar 3, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 140: Kota Holliday
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome 1/3 of the Next Level Soldiers Kota Holliday to the show. She and Brian Bell discuss NLS' first foray into promoting, NLS Is For Everyone, building queer presence within the Chicago independent wrestling scene, how she discovered her inclusion in the QWI 200 and the perils of imposter syndrome.
Follow Kota Holliday on Twitter: @KotaHolliday
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Mar 2, 2022
Trans Sporter Room Ep125 -- Kyla Paterson: A Dispatch From The Midwestern Front
Sports history and the modern reality of the current anti-trans legislation fight collide in a state where women's sport mattered for decades before Title IX.
Since 1920, girl's high school athletics was administered by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union. The IGHSAU is recognized as one of the oldest confederations dedicated to opening doors in sports for girls in the world.
It began with its well-known, and well-attended annual state girls high school basketball tournament, but it grew over the decades to build a full slate of competition for Iowa girls pre-dating the passage of Title IX
“I take a lot of pride that every girl walks down every main street in every town in Iowa just as tall as the boy.” -- IGHSAU executive secretary/legend E. Wayne Cooley Jr., 2002
In 2014, IGHSAU was among the first states in the USA to form policy for the inclusion of transgender girls into high school sport. Again, Iowa leading the way.
The next year, a soccer player name Kyla Paterson don…
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Mar 1, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Josh Jones - All In Racing
Cyclist Josh Jones joins D.Gil on this episode to discuss his work with ALL IN Racing, a new initiative within competitive cycling to increase visibility and inclusion for LGBT+ riders and which aims to become a standard for championing diversity in amateur and professional racing.
ALL IN RACING
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Feb 24, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 139: Papa Jace
Hello, Lovelies! Get your freak flags ready because we have the Proud Papa, Papa Jace, joining us this week! Jace and Brian Bell discuss how and why Papa Jace completely reinvented his wrestling persona over the last year on his way to becoming the biggest heel in the Las Vegas scene. He dishes on his admiration for Jody, his journey to put more of himself into his in-ring self-expression and merging how his character interacts with cultural ideals of masculinity. Also, trash cinema.
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Feb 23, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep124 -- Alejandra Caraballo and Trans Joy and Pain In A Pool
The swim saga reached the first postseason test. The Ivy League Championship featuring a rare first. Two out transgender student-athletes competing...and in one race competing against each other.
Penn's Lia Thomas and Yale's Iszac Henig both chased and caught some dreams in a great weekend at Harvard, but both are also catching flak from those who'd rather exclude them from competition.
Alejandra Caraballo, trans right lawyers and Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic, took a break from legal briefs to take in the championship and cheer for two champs. Karleigh Webb beams her up and gets her impression on the competition and the controversy surrounding their participation. She has a lot to say about that, and about evolution of the story in a "Galaxy Far Far Away".
Also the week:
Team LGBTQ finishes strong in Beijing
Ivy League Swimming Championship Recap
Trans Shaming Is NOT An Argument
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Feb 22, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Celebrating LGBTQ Athletes in Black History Month
D.Gil shares his thoughts on some of his favorite black LGBTQ athletes to celebrate Black History Month. You probably heard some of these names, but some names might just surprise you. Happy Black History Month.
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Feb 19, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 105: Kamila Valieva was failed
Happy Saturday! Alex spends the bulk of the show this week discussing the Kamila Valieva doping scandal, and how the phenom teenage Russian skater was failed by the adults around her. Alex also praises the commentary work of Johnny Weir, who should win an Emmy already! Also, the Aaron Rodgers gay jokes are starting up again. Ugh.
Alex is off next week. The Sports Kiki will be back in two weeks!
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Feb 18, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 138: Trish Adora
Hello, Lovelies! We're late. We know. But this week's show is worth the wait as we welcome Pan-Afrikan World Diaspora Wrestling champion Trish Adora to the show! She and Brian Bell discuss her upcoming title match against Big Swole at F1ght Club's In Grapitol We Trust event on Feb. 20, returning to Hoodslam in March and what she learned from her time with Ring of Honor. Adora also chats about overcoming mental health issues and figuring out what she wrestles for as the landscape of pro wrestling continues to change.
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Feb 16, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep123 -- A TSR Tripleheader: Three Views On New Inclusion Policy
The Ivy League Swimming and Division Championships open Wednesday on the campus of Harvard University, and Penn's Lia Thomas will be there... to compete.
Looming in the background is what happens in regard to her eligibility for the NCAA championship meet in March. The new NCAA policy is a derivative of the International Olympic Committee guidelines that will go into effect in March. Yet question remains in regards to why the NCAA took this step, what it could mean, and will it need to be fixed.
This week, Karleigh Webb sits down with three guests each seeing the issues and questions from different vantage points.
University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke Jr. is an expert in the study of sports governance and look at both the NCAA and IOC frameworks and looks at where they could work and what the sore spots could be.
Ursinus College professor Dr. Johanna Mellis, also cohost of the End of Sports Podcast teaches sports history in relation to sport in society. She also was a competi…
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Feb 12, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 104: The struggles of being a gay football fan
In honor of Super Bowl Sunday, Alex dedicates his show this week to talking about the struggles of being a gay football fan, and his experience navigating sports fandom and gay life. He also talks about NBC's straight-washing of the Olympics and previews the big game.
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Feb 11, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 137: Billy Dixon
Hello, Lovelies! All rise for your gay president because "The Business" Billy Dixon is back on LGBT In The Ring! He and Brian Bell dish on Pro Wrestling Vibe's Pride and Vibe Weekend, the largest celebration of queer pro wrestling to date. Dixon also discusses nearly quitting wrestling before his iconic Pup Collar match with AJ Gray, the significance of AC Mack's historic title win and his two-year journey to conquer O'Shay Edwards at F1ght Club Pro Wrestling's In Grapitol We Trust.
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Feb 10, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 136: Kidd Bandit
Hello, Lovelies! Fire up your Rei-Gun because we've got The Protagonist of Pro Wrestling Kidd Bandit on the show! Bandit has built a large following less than a year into their in-ring career through their candid online presence and infectious personality, and they and Brian Bell unpack that growth and the pressures that come with it. They also discuss Bandit's variants, including Waifu and Edgelord Bandit, and the example they want to set for pro wrestling and the LGBTQ fans that enjoy it.
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Feb 9, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep122 -- Angel Flores on getting her wings and A TSR/Sports Kiki look at the Super Bowl
In the current season of Netflix's Queer Eye, a young trans woman powerlifter from Texas was subject of QE's regal remake, and Angel Flores' story, strength, talent, and drive goes deep. This week the Trans Sporter Room beamed up this dynamo for a chat with our Karleigh Webb on the strength lift up the weight, lift up her truth, and her goal to help lift up a community.
She also got deep into the parts of the trans sports inclusion issue and the derma of being trans and being an athlete in context with the continuing news surrounding transgender people in sports in recent months.
Also this week:
Winter Olympic Update
The Ivy League came up roses for what's right
Super Bowl LVI preview with Alex Reimer, the host of The Sports Kiki
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Feb 5, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 103: Speaking out against China
Happy Saturday! The Winter Olympics are underway, and it's another banner event for LGBTQ athletes, with at least 35 competing. But sadly, it's hard to get past the IOC awarding the Games to China, given its government's raft of human rights abuses. On this week's show, Alex talks about balancing geopolitics with the Games themselves.
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Feb 2, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep121 -- Maxwell Nagle: A Shooter's Story
Maxwell Nagle is young promising journalist covering the his favorite game. He's a high school basketball writer for Novahoops.com, based one of the nation's basketball hotbeds, the DMV (District of Columbia-Maryland-Virginia)
But he's only a few years remove from his time as a three-point bombardier at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.
As Nagle was helping Hollins through the difficult Old Dominion Athletic Conference, he was also working through finding his place as a transgender man on the court and off, while playing ball at an all-women university.
The examination led to a choice entering senior year between love for self and a love for the game. Nagle sit in with Karleigh Webb to look at how sport influenced his journey, what he took from the experience and how sports could adapt and grow to help trans student-athletes in the years ahead.
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The Hints and Allegations just don't stop
Kwame Brown: Really, bruh?
Why Avatar: The Last Airbender is an underrated…
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Feb 1, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Sean Cosgriff
Sean Cosgriff joins D.Gil to discuss what it's like to join an LGBTQ+ sports community at the age of 53. Swimming, running, and participating in triathlons are the go-to sports for this gay athlete who shares how special being in a community is.
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Jan 29, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 102: Trans sportswriter Karleigh Webb sounds off on the Lia Thomas hysteria
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex speaks with Outsports contributor Karleigh Webb, who's one of the most passionate and knowledgeable journalists in the country about trans issues in sports. They talk about the hysteria over Lia Thomas, the problems with the NCAA's hastily mandated new trans policy and more.
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Jan 28, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 134: DJ Accident Report
Hello, Lovelies! We wrap up Journo January by bringing back the Mother of LGBTQ wrestling media, The Nobodies' DJ Accident Report. He and Brian Bell discuss the origins of Nobodies Watching Wrestling, being part of LGBTQ pro wrestling's rise and the issues with the current digital media climate. They also chat the Mx. Nobody pageant and DJ Accident Report's Substack, Judgement!
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Jan 27, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 133: Da Shade
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome Strap Daddy himself, the Princex of Pride champion Da Shade! He and Brian Bell discuss his journey through the Las Vegas pro wrestling scene, winning the Princex of Pride title at Full Queer, the definition of Yeet Season and his title defense against Kidd Bandit at PrideStyle 2 this Friday.
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Jan 26, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep120 -- The Change in the NCAA's and The Fallout
On January 19, the NCAA Board of Governors voted to replace its 10-year-old Transgender Student-Athlete Inclusion policy with a completely new policy based loosely on the forthcoming International Olympic Committee set to take effect in March.
The NCAA's new policy instituted immediately in the middle of a competitive season and it will immediately have to be used. A transgender woman in the University of Pennsylvania, Lia Thomas has two confirmed A-cut qualifying marks in the NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships in Atlanta in March.
But the questions are on the table: What will the next policy look like, and how it will affect Thomas competing, and how will this affect in issue with is raging from college athletic departments to 38 state legislatures.
Joining Karleigh Webb this week is a pair of guest coming from different sides of the issue. Sports Illustrated Copy Chief and writer Julie Kliegman has been on this beat as a reporter for the last year, and will look at how…
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Jan 25, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Catching Up With Wyatt Pertuset
Wyatt is the first openly gay college football player to catch a touchdown. Now he's a grad student studying Behavior/Mental Health at the University of Dayton. Listen in as D.Gil catches up with Wyatt to discuss his sports journey from a child to now an adult. A story you'll want to hear again.
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Jan 24, 2022
Lewis Gibson is headed to the Olympics, out and married - Five Rings To Rule Them All
Lewis Gibson first shared his love for his now-husband with the world on Valentine's Day two years ago with a cute Instagram post. Since then he and his ice dancing partner, Lilah Fear, have risen the world rankings. Now they are poised to represent Team Great Britain at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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Jan 22, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 101: NCAA shamefully punts on trans inclusion
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about the NCAA's sudden changes to its transgender policy, and how one of the most influential sports organizations in the world essentially punted on this important issue.
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Jan 21, 2022
LGBT In The Ring: AC Mack Returns!
Hello, Lovelies! It's Southeast First day, and we've got the man challenging for the IWTV World title, AC Mack, on the show to chat all about it. Mack and Brian Bell trace his path to the IWTV World title, winning the SCI tournament, making Southeast First a statement to the wrestling world and the chance to become the first out LGBTQ male world champion in pro wrestling history!
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Jan 20, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 131: Trans Graps
Hello, Lovelies! Like wrestling media itself, Journo January evolves this week as we sit down with the creator of the new pro wrestling fan community Trans Graps, Sally. Trans Graps is a space for trans wrestling fans made by trans wrestling fans and is quickly growing into a platform for trans and gender-diverse people to discuss pro wrestling, queerness and everything in between. Sally and Brian Bell chat what led her to create Trans Graps, watching it blow up, her love for Candy Lee and Veny and cool dad Luther.
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Jan 19, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep119 -- The View from Denmark: Nadia Jacobsen and Maia Kahlke Lorentzen
Sporting federations around the world are taking a cue from the International Olympic Committee and looking at their policies regarding transgender athletes, and recent Denmark did as well.
The European nation had an inclusive process in many respects, but it is also dealing with a media that has trended towards anti-trans slants and is dealing with some dedicated sectors of resistance to inclusion.
Sound familiar?
At the intersection of this are people like Nadia Jacobsen. Three years ago she came out, while at the same time being in the game as a volleyball player. Through her transition, sports wasn't just a diversion, it was a lifeline.
And that lifeline ended up golden at last year's WorldPride and EuroGames in Copenhagen. She was part of a gold medal-winning squad in her volleyball division.
Through it all, Jacobsen and many others have been targets of emerging harassment on online, and that has been a focus of an investigative series that Maia Kahlke Lorentzen has taken on as pa…
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Jan 15, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 100: Time to celebrate!
Happy 100th episode! We've made it! On this week's show, Alex celebrates the Outsports community, and the importance of staying connected throughout this hellacious pandemic.
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Jan 14, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 130: Paul Pratt aka Pollo Del Mar
Hello, Lovelies! Journo January continues with the Paul Pratt (Wrestling Inc.), aka "The Manager of Champions" Pollo Del Mar. He and Brian Bell discuss how decades of work in drag, pro wrestling and entertainment paved the way for his breakout 2021, accomplishing his dream of writing for Pro Wrestling Illustrated and the connection wrestling built between him and his father. Plus, some fun Dustin Rhodes and Stone Cold Steve Austin stories!
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Jan 13, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 129: Mr. Grim Returns
Hello, Lovelies! This week we're welcoming back pro wrestling's Hitman for Hire, Mr. Grim. One year after coming out as pansexual, Grim and Brian Bell reflect on how things have changed for him, his stellar 2021 and the importance of being the role model he didn't have growing up in Washington, D.C. They also discuss Grim's packed early 2022, including matches at Wrestlers Lab, Enjoy Wrestling and F1ght Club Pro Wrestling.
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Jan 12, 2022
Trans Sporter Room EP118 -- Maya Reddy on Golf, Inclusion and the Law
Maya Reddy was a girl with a fairway dream in 2016. A three-time NCAA All-American was set step on an opening tee in the Symetra Tour.
She ran into was a brick wall of prejudice on the links. A South Asian, queer woman in a sport that seems to have no space for either identity. Her piece of mind demanding walking away from the game, but not from the greater fight for inclusion
Fast forward to now. Reddy is on track to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania with a law degree this coming spring, but even in this arena, she still in the game. With the continuing controversy surrounding Penn swimmer Lia Thomas raging, she rallied a group of law student to speak out against the cacophony of voice that have tried to demean this kid, to affirm her right by NCAA rule to take her mark and swim.
This week Karleigh Webb sits down with Reddy to talk about a fighting through, fighting back, missing the game she loved...and why the Star Wars prequels were actually really good.
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Jan 11, 2022
The GAMEDAY TEA: Martial Arts Tricking with Rhys Moore
Rhys Moore joins The GAMEDAY TEA to discuss what is Martial Arts Tricking, being a queer athlete, and LGBTQ representation in Tricking.
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Jan 8, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 99: Trailblazing gay sportswriter Roger Brigham
Roger Brigham became the first out gay editor for a metropolitan daily when he came out while working as sports editor of the Anchorage Daily News in 1982. Brigham retired this week after 46 years in journalism, spending the last 16 years at the Bay Area Reporter. Through the way, Brigham has battled serious health ailments, beginning with an HIV infection in 1982. Alex asks Roger about his life, career and lessons learned.
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Jan 7, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 128: Wrestle Kingdom 16 w/ Rachel Giuliani
Hello, Lovelies! It's Wrestle Kingdom time once again, which means Rachel Giuliani is back to help Brian Bell break down all the action from Wrestle Kingdom 16! They discuss Katsuyori Shibata's return and evolution, Stardom featuring on the card for the first time, Sho's sad boy energy and Hiromu Takahashi's next great look. They also put El Desperado, Kenta and Hiroshi Tanahashi's bloody hardcore battle and Kazuchika Okada's IWGP World title odyssey under the microscope!
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Jan 6, 2022
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 127: Lizzy "LizzyLucha" Flanagan
Hello, Lovelies! We're kicking off 2022 with the return of Journo January! This week, QWI Award-winning writer Lizzy Flanagan, aka LizzyLucha, joins the show. She and Brian Bell discuss her love of lucha, her goal to work in a major promotion and how her "Come Tuesday" meme came to be!
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The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital!
Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Jan 5, 2022
The Trans Sporter Room Ep117 -- Looking Back, Looking Ahead
2021 was another year were the Trans Sporter Room boldly went to tell stories at the intersection of sports, transness, sci-fi, all things nerd and geek and other stuff.
It was a year of Biden, COVID, a tide of anti-trans legislation and the Olympics that had no fans, but had Rainbow and Gold.
It was a year of kudos for Carl, Jonquel, Raven, Luke, Quinn, and Alana who made up Outsports' awards Olympus in '21
It was also a year where titans, authors, ultra distance runners, activist, jesters and and a lot of everyday people who love to play, compete and put together a win where beamed up.
It began with a story untold, and continued through many stories that would unfold, and we ended 2021, with a master and a protegé sharing our bridge.
And it also featured a Number One moving into the Captain's Chair, and Karleigh found out the chair is rather comfy.
Also this week
I'll take "Transphobes are at it again for $1000, Mayim"
Karleigh's Resolution for '22
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Jan 1, 2022
The Sports Kiki Ep. 98: 2021 was the biggest year ever for gay athletes
Happy New Year! On this week's show, Alex talks about why 2021 was the biggest year ever for gay athletes, and how the stigma around being LGBTQ and in sports is finally being erased once and for all.
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Dec 29, 2021
The Trans Sporter Room Ep116 -- Ending 2021 with Alana McLaughlin and Fallon Fox
On September 13, 2014, Fallon Fox fought her final professional MMA bout and scored a win.
It took a long time for someone to follow in the imposing footstep of a pioneer that Outsports' Cyd Zeigler dubbed "The Bravest Athlete Ever".
On September 10, 2021, nearly seven years to the day that Fox left the cage, a protegé entered the cauldron draped in trans pride azure-salmon-cream.
Alana McLaughlin showed her fire and her heart in a victory and provided another galvanizing touchstone in winning year for inclusion in sports
This week, our final episode of the The Trans Sporter Room is proud to bring you a special conversation among three proud transgender women on sports, life, trans joy, the journey, the roads they've travelled, the road ahead, and Karleigh Webb doing some special poetry, too.
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Dec 25, 2021
The Sports Kiki Ep. 97: NFL Network highlighted gay football players, and that's a big deal
Merry Christmas! On this holiday edition of the show, Alex talks about the NFL Network's segment on Carl Nassib's impact, and why it was so great to see out football players highlighted.
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Dec 23, 2021
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 126: QWI Awards Feedback
Hello, Lovelies! With Xms two days away, Brian Bell is in the giving mood this week. Specifically, giving feedback on your feedback after last week's inaugural QWI Awards. Brian addresses the most common critiques, including some of their own, regarding the QWI Awards nomination process and ballot. Why were no WWE wrestlers nominated? Why did it feel like voting took on an American focus? What categories could be added for next year and which need a much deserved tweak? Brian gets into it all this week as they prep for the holiday season!
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Dec 22, 2021
The Trans Sporter Room Ep115 -- Trans Joy! Featuring the 2021 Pull For Pride Grant Winner
For the second straight year, Pull For Pride co-headed by Breanna Diaz and trans powerlifter JayCee Cooper have put together a scholarship program for LGBTQ athlete seeking aid for their pursuit of strength sports. Training, equipment and competition fees can be an expensive proposition for those seeking to compete in the sport and that often prices out many with potential and many other seeking the physical and emotional health and wellness benefits.
In 2020, the opening year, the scholarship had a $2,000 budget to give grants out. Six athletes were able to get aid, there where more that the group wanted give to,.
In 2021, the scholarship fund grew to over $10,000 in donations, many coming from other grassroots athletes..
The grants were awarded in November to 24 titans of all ages, races, and identities.
Three grant winners, D'Auriel Epiphany, Taylor Selman and Afton Brooks join Karleigh Webb for one of most trans joyful conversations since this podcast became a podcast.
All three ar…
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Dec 18, 2021
The Sports Kiki Ep. 96: What Candace Parker's coming out tells us about closeted athletes
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about WNBA legend Candace Parker publicly coming out, and what her announcement says about athletes who stay closeted. Also, can Colton Underwood just go away?
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Dec 16, 2021
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 125: 2021 QWI Awards
Hello, Lovelies! We're rounding out the QWI season with the fan-voted QWI Awards ceremony! Brian Bell, along with Grit & Glitter's Em Fear and Val Pancakes, announce the winners in 14 categories celebrating LGBTQ pro wrestling in 2021, including a number of QWI 200 honorees. From Wrestler of the Year to Best Look, we celebrate and honor those who you voted the best in QueerWres in 2021!
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Dec 15, 2021
Trans Sporter Room Ep114 -- A TSR Home and Home Special: Phoebe Rose of Transition Stories
Every so often the Trans Sporter Room sends out an "away team" (okay, just Karleigh) do hopefully do a "home and home" with another podcast. In November Karleigh went to the road to appear on Phoebe Rose's "Transition Stories" podcast where they talked about trans life, their journeys and geeked out on Formula 1 racing.
This week UK-based Phoebe Rose gets beamed up to talk about her series now entering its 3rd year, the impact it's had on her and on a community in a place gaining a distinction as "TERF Island",
And yes, they are still going to geek out on Formula 1. Can you blame them after last weekend in Abu Dhabi?
Also this week
Anti-trans group protests USA Cyclocross Nationals
Why the NCAA needs to stand up and speak out for their own inclusion policy
Yeeted at Yas Marina
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Dec 11, 2021
The Sports Kiki Ep. 95: The LGBTQ silence about Lia Thomas
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex discusses the successes of UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas, who's shattering Ivy League records as a trans woman. The LGBTQ media has largely been quiet about Thomas, allowing bad faith right-wing pundits to control the narrative.
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Dec 9, 2021
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 124: 2021 QWI 200
Hello, Lovelies! As QWI 200 week reaches its end with the release of the top 20 today, Brian Bell welcomes a panel from Pro Wrestling Illustrated to discuss the list of the top 200 LGBTQ pro wrestlers of the year! "Manager of Champions" Pollo Del Mar (Wrestling Inc., PWI), Black Wrestlers 500 curator Righteous Reg (Fightful, PWI), Women's 150 curator Kristen Ashly (BellToBelles, PWI) and PWI Editor-in-Chief Kevin McElvaney break down this year's list, including a stacked top five, and open up about why lists highlighting underrepresented communities in pro wrestling are vital.
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Follow RIghteous Reg on Twitter: @RighteousReg
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Dec 8, 2021
The Trans Sporter Room Ep103 -- Britni de la Cretaz on their first book and their impact
Britni de la Cretaz has written some of most important journalism in the last couple years at the intersection of sports, gender, culture, queerness.
In the middle of groundbreaking articles on nonbinary inclusion in sports and the hidden stories of trans men in the continuing transgender athletic inclusion "debate", they found time to team up with standout sports writer Lyndsey D'Arcangelo and wrote a book.
Their effort Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League would be a sizzling piece of period fiction of sport coming in the cusp of the changes of the 1970s...
But the thing is, It's not fiction.
In 1973, after a prehistory full of sideshows, and barnstorming, a group of teams, investors, and women with athleticism, spark, and a dream got together and formed the National Women Football League. This is a story of the history of a league filled with a cast of characters that including a tough Texas-born quote machine, glamour teams from glamour towns, gritty…
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Dec 4, 2021
The Sports Kiki Ep. 94: Only 2 NFL players are supporting LGBTQ orgs for "My Cause My Cleats"
Happy Saturday! The NFL is running its annual "My Cause My Cleats" campaign this weekend, and only two players are supporting LGBTQ-related causes. On this week's show, Alex shares why that annoys him, and also talks about 49ers QB Trey Lance supporting an anti-gay Christian organization.
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Dec 2, 2021
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 123: PrideStyle w/ Milhouse Malott
Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome PrideStyle founder and VERSUS Pro co-booker Milhouse Malott to the show. Malott and Brian Bell discuss what led to the creation of Malott's new all-inclusive promotion and the bangers only level card planned for its debut on Dec. 10. Malott also delves into his coming out as pansexual on National Coming Out Day, the growth of the Las Vegas wrestling scene in 2021, Graphouse and running wrestling shows in a mall.
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Dec 1, 2021
The Trans Sporter Room Ep112 -- Kirsti Miller On Why the IOC Framework Can Work
Karleigh Webb returns from the holiday weekend to interview outspoken Australian athlete and transgender advocate Kirsti Miller who had a lot more to say, show and teach on the IOC policy based on her experiences in sport that reach back four decades. Also , she delves into the systemic issues beyond the sporting issue, in addition to talking what keeps her advocating and sometimes, agitating in the world of sport and in the Australia she calls home.
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Nov 29, 2021
Raven Saunders won't stop being Raven Saunders - Five Rings To Rule Them All
Olympic silver medalist Raven Saunders made a name for herself at the Tokyo Summer Olympics with her big personality, her died hair and her refusal to stop expressing her true self. When she received her silver medal, she held her arms over her head as an expression of solidarity with all people. Now several months later she has endorsement deals and the companies she's working with aren't interested in toning her down, they're looking to support all of who she is. She talks with us this week about all of that, and about her struggles with mental health and why that issue has become a big part of her platform. You can follow Raven on Instagram and Twitter.
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Nov 27, 2021
The Sports Kiki Ep. 93: What to make of Colton Underwood's Netflix series
Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about Colon Underwood's upcoming Netflix series, and why he finds the concept to be toxic. In addition, Alex speaks about the importance of racing champion Lewis Hamilton wearing rainbow colors when he won the Qatar Grand Prix.
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Nov 25, 2021
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 122: An Invisible Thanksgiving
Hello, Lovelies! We want to wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving in the only way we know how: beautifully goofy pro wrestling. Brian Bell and their partner KC are back to discuss a true classic - The Invisible Man vs. The Invisible Stan from GCW Joey Janela's Spring Break 3 Part 1. How do you have a match when only the referee is visible to all in attendance? Let referee Bryce Remsburg suck you into one of the greatest one-man shows pro wrestling has ever seen.
Watch the match on YouTube here
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Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp.
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Nov 24, 2021
The Trans Sporter Room Ep111 -- Raquel Willis One-On-One
Rachel Willis grew from just a kid in Georgia finding her way to a community organizer, fighter and journalist leading the way. The proud and studious 30-year-old activist has been strong, steady voice through a turbulent period for trans communities and his emerged among a new generation of LGBTQ leaders for today and tomorrow.
This week Karleigh Webb sits down with Willis to talk about her work, her story, her determination, and her hopes for the movement now and into the future.
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Nov 23, 2021
The GAMEDAY TEA: A D.Gil Thanksgiving Message
D.Gil has a Thanksgiving message for everyone that's ever played sports. Think deep as you listen to this episode and get ready to send a text or make a much-needed phone call. Happy Thanksgiving.
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Nov 22, 2021
Olympics' new gender framework has trans athlete Kirsti Miller very excited
The International Olympic Committee has announced it will end its trans-athlete policy in March, just after the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Instead, the Olympics are offering a 10-point framework to encourage each individual sports' governing body to create its own policies around who can compete in the women's category. Kirsti Miller joins us this week from Australia to talk about the new policy. The trans athlete has advocated for changes to sporting policy for trans athletes for years. This new policy reflects some of what Miller has been pushing for years, namely a framework that is built around each individual sport and athlete. She talks about the effects that transitioning has had on her, and why she is so encouraged by the new IOC policy. You can follow Kirsti Miller on Twitter.
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Nov 20, 2021
The Sports Kiki Ep. 92: How 'who cares?' became online code for 'I hate gay people'
Happy Saturday! Alex tackles two topics on this week's show, including how the phrase "who cares?" has become code online for "I hate gay people." Homophobes are more clandestine than they used to be, but their message is the same.
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Nov 18, 2021
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 121: Mercedes Martinez
Hello, Lovelies! Roll out the red carpet and protect your neck because hard-hitting legend Mercedes Martinez is on the show! Ahead of her Impact Knockouts title match against Mickie James at Turning Point Saturday, Martinez sits down with Brian Bell to chat the significance of stepping into the ring with James, how LGBTQ and female visibility has improved during her career, wrestling Cassandro at Rise Pride & Joy and overcoming anti-LGBTQ stigmas that existed early in her career.
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Nov 18, 2021
LGBT In The Ring Ep. 120: AEW Full Gear 2021 w/ Colette Arrand
Hello, Lovelies! We're chatting AEW Full Gear 2021 this week with Fanfyte's Colette Arrand! She and Brian Bell break down the highs and lows of the event, including Hangman Page's coronation as AEW World champion, Eddie Kingston and CM Punk delivering perfection and the genius of MJF and his jocks.
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