Outsports Radio

We start with the joyous news that Election 2020 is finally over and the days of the 45th president are numbered. Then a mom from the Seattle Area beams up to tell us about her 13-year-old son, Bobby, a soccer goalkeeper who fought to have local league rules changed so he could play on the boys team. Bobby is transgender and his mom Eleanor Jones is his biggest supporter. What's it like when people, even in your own family, think you're making a mistake allowing your child to transition? All this, PLUS we share our love for TNG, our favorite episode and who would be the best dinner date from the NCC-1701-D? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

D.Gil dives into some of the psychological related issues that LGBTQ athletes experience with Mental Performance Consultant Dr. Hannah Bennett. We also discuss psychological factors that affect athletes, LGBTQ inclusion in sports, negative impacts on athletes without inclusion, and ways athletes can improve their well being through psychological interventions. 11/17/20: In this episode, I refer to Dr. Hannah Bennett as a sport psychologist. To be transparent, she is not a licensed mental health clinician. Dr. Bennett holds a doctorate in human performance and works with clients on mental performance. Her research highlights diversity, inclusion, and social justice within sport and performance. Edits have been made to the episode description, however, I am unable to edit the podcast conversation itself. Follow The GAMEDAY TEA on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook: @The GAMEDAY TEA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ness Murby has competed on the national and international stage for three countries - Japan, Australia and Canada - in three different sports. Yet he's never done it as his true self. In this exclusive interview, Murby talks about being a proud member of the trans community and what he hopes to see change about gender-based sports going forward. He also talks about the dynamics of being blind and a member of the LGBTQ community, and how one often seems to overshadow the other in the minds of many. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex goes at it alone on this week's show. He kicks off the show talking about our never-ending election. While Joe Biden has already shattered the popular vote record, Donald Trump will receive at least 70 million votes himself. Alex says the close results, and exit polls, show the elite coastal media shouldn't be so dismissive of Trump voters. With the election behind us, Alex also says he expects sports to be less political going forward. At the end of the show, Alex talks about the coming-out story of NHL player agent Bayne Pettinger, and what it tells us about the seismic shift in attitudes regarding gay people in men's professional sports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! We're chatting all things Paris Is Bumping this week with one of the judges on the show, The Nobodies' DJ Accident Report! He and Brian discuss the impact of Billy Dixon's pro wrestling/ballroom hybrid event, including plenty of memorable moments and lasting images. Accident Report provides his firsthand account of the event and how LGBTQ pro wrestling can continue growing its profile within the industry as a whole. It's all about turning realness into reality! Follow DJ Accident Report on Twitter: @eric_shorey Support DJ Accident Report on Substack at judgement.substack.com Support The Nobodies on Patreon and listen to Nobodies Saying Hello on Spotify! 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, @S

It's the morning after the most contentious election of our lifetimes. Karleigh and Dawn offer their thoughts and salute transgender political candidates who won their elections, including Sarah McBride, the first out trans state senator in the U.S., and Taylor Small, Vermont's first openly transgender state representative. But first we're talking with the award-winning writer of sports and culture at espnW: Katie Barnes! And stay tuned for a snippet of Dawn's exclusive interview with Star Trek: Discovery's Ian Alexander, the franchise's first trans actor cast in a recurring role! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The vibrant Amazin LetHi joins D.Gil to discuss LGBTQ inclusion in sports, the adversity Asian LGBGTQ members have to overcome in society, the awesome Amazin LeThi foundation, and ways we can stay health via dieting and exercise in the midst of a pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NOlympics is an organization of community leaders and activists formed with the aim to end the Olympic Games. They claim the Olympics are bad for local communities of lower- and middle-class people, and that the Olympics are "dangerous" for the LGBTQ community. Joining us this week to talk about all of this are Gigi Droesch and Gia Lappe, who live in Los Angeles and came to the organization as Los Angeles mounted its successful bid to host the Summer Olympic Games (in 2028). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's show, Alex chats with a member of the Outsports family, Anthony Nicodemo. A high school basketball coach, Nicodemo came out in Outsports in 2015. He's currently an athletic director and president of his teacher's union, as well as president of the Hudson Valley Stonewall Democrats. Alex and Anthony talk about the troubling state of schools, the presidential election, and why it's important for LGBTQ people to be involved in politics. Follow Anthony on Twitter, @coachNicodemo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Well, we made it through an entire World Series episode without a single player testing positive for COVID. And you could ALMOST say the same thing about the World Series itself... Rangers beat writer and friend of the pod Alex Plinck (Dallas Sports Fanatic) is back this week. If you had told me back in February that I'd be talking to a Rangers expert in late October, I'd have predicted it would've been the most shocking thing in all of 2020. We were all so innocent in the Before Times. But with the World Series being held in Arlington, Alex had the privilege of attending all six games in person! So in this episode, we do a deep dive into it. The two of us debate over whether it's possible to understand why Justin Turner would celebrate with his teammates after testing positive. We manage to discuss the Rays' Game 6 strategy without Kevin Cash removing either of us halfway through the show. And we celebrate Brett Phillips's unlikely heroics in Game 4 as well as Clayton Kershaw earning a well-deserved champion

Hello, Lovelies! With Paris Is Bumping debuting later tonight, we welcome 1/4 of the event's Divas Championship match to the podcast: Jared Evans. Evans has enjoyed some his most high profile matches ever this year despite the pandemic, making up for years of "stagnation." Butch vs. Gore, EFFY's Big Gay Brunch, going through doors at the Polyam Cult Party: Evans packed a lot into 2020 thus far. And he isn't done. Evans chats all about Paris Is Bumping, the dark periods he overcame and why he doesn't "broadcast" his bisexuality! Follow Jared Evans on Twitter: @MrJaredEvans Check out Paris Is Bumping Oct. 29 10pm Et/7pm PT on independentwrestling.tv 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

Legendary NCLR athletic director Helen Carroll, recently retired, joins Karleigh and Dawn to talk about her incredible career, her thoughts on transgender inclusion and more! PLUS: SPOILER ALERT! Dawn has a sneak peek at her exclusive interview for Forbes.com with non-binary actor Blu del Barrio of Star Trek: Discovery! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ever see your favorite sports athlete on a magazine cover and wonder what it takes to make them look so darn stylish? Well D.Gil talks to sports stylist Cindy Whitehead on what exactly it takes to style an athlete. We discuss the difficulty styling athletes compared to more traditional models, some of Cindy's athletes that she's styled over the years, and her experiences with styling LGBTQ athletes.. This is an informative episode that will end up leaving you appreciative on what goes on behind the scenes to make that well dressed athlete look so good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Callan Chythlook-Sifsof is a brave athlete. Growing up in rural Alaska, a town of just 200 people, she forged a path for herself with no role models in her sport of snowboarding. Not only did she become the first Indigenous Alaskan to represent the United States in the Olympics, but she also came out publicly as gay during the 2014 Winter Olympic Games held in Sochi, Russia. She talks with us about the discrimination she's faced for her gender, sexual orientation and race, as well as what it was like dating one of her competitors on the team of another country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's show, Alex speaks with NFL free agent Ryan Russell, who publicly came out last year as bisexual. Alex and Ryan talk about his recent essay about the NFL's support for the LGBTQ community, and whether it's superficial. Follow Ryan on Twitter, @RKRelentless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here we are folks The dream we all dream of Rays vs. Dodgers In the World Series of...Texas? You know it's been a weird year when the Dodgers' longest homestand of the season takes place in Arlington. But that's where we find ourselves in baseball's first ever neutral site World Series. And this week, friend of the pod Adam Mamawala (Cubs Brawl: The Away Games Podcast) is back to break down Games 1 & 2. After leaving poor Clayton Kershaw for dead on the last episode, the Dodgers ace went all Jason Voorhees on Tampa Bay in the opener. But Wednesday evening, Brandon Lowe's bat finally got as hot as his face and the Rays evened things up. (Seriously, how did I watch the entire postseason and not realize Brandon Lowe is beautiful until he homered twice? My libido is as big a front runner as a Florida baseball fan.) And naturally, we sing the praises of Mookie Betts who remains as fun to watch as any player I can remember. In the span of five minutes, I comp Mookie to Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, and Oscar Ch

Hello, Lovelies! We kick off year two of LGBT In The Ring with our first tag team guests: The Runway. Calvin Couture and Tyler Klein's friendship is on full display in and out of the ring, epitomized by how they came together to form The Runway in the first place. The two discuss how The Runway was born, the personal freedom pro wrestling provides for each and the significance of EFFY's Big Gay Brunch. Follow Calvin Couture on Twitter: @calvin_couture Follow Tyler Klein on Twitter: @Tboy_TylerKlein Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod Don't forget to join us Friday, Oct. 23 at 4pm ET over on twitch.tv/wonderboyotm for our Birthday Charity Fire Pro Pride Championship stream. We're holding an all-LGBTQ videogame pro wrestling tournament and raising money for Transgender Law Center! 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 the

This week, we salute Fordham University Women's Basketball alum Bryson Cavanaugh who publicly came out as transgender via a post to his Instagram! Also: The U.S. Department of Education convinced Franklin Pierce University — the school that produced CeCé Telfer, the first out trans women to win an NCAA championship in track and field — to drop its policy on inclusion of transgender student athletes by threatening to withhold federal funding. But officials in New Haven, Conn. did not buckle to similar pressure from Betsy DeVos's Office of Civil Rights. Students there will get a $3M grant for five magnet schools that DoE threatened to withhold, because of trans inclusive policies. In other news, Dawn and Karleigh discuss Amy Coney Barrett lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee and using the phrase "sexual preference," plus the final presidential debate, and Dawn has the scoop on what's coming up on Star Trek: Discovery Season 3! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ever wonder why you still support your favorite sports team even though they continue to let you down? Due to another Atlanta Braves playoff collapse, D.Gil talks about six reasons why we stay in bad relationships to explain why we can never just quite give up on our favorite teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The International Olympic Committee is again hiding behind its false claims of not engaging in human rights and politics as questions emerge about the selection of China to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. At the same time, the Federation of Gay Games is embracing Hong Kong as the host of its 2022 Gay Games in hopes of having a positive impact on human rights in China. Plus, we talk about the future of Iran in the Olympic Games given its human-rights violations, as well as the impact of World Rugby's ban on trans athletes and whether we will see Laurel Hubbard or another trans athlete in Tokyo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices