Outsports Radio

On this week's show, Alex discusses Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barett using the term "sexual preference" in her confirmation hearing, and why focusing on the phrase distracts from the real threat she poses to the LGBTQ community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I love Clayton Kershaw. He's the best pitcher of this generation and a pure joy to watch. But...it's October. Which means that Kershaw is distressingly...ordinary. On this episode, Sara Sanchez (Cuppa Cubbie Blue) joins me to ponder that if an entire month could be Kryptonite, October is just that for the three-time Cy Young winner. To mix superhero metaphors (and universes), it's like that moment in Spider Man 3 where Spidey loses his web slinging skills and faceplants hard onto the street. Actually, scratch that. Kershaw in October is like Spider Man 3. Period. We then pay tribute to the incredibly fun Atlanta Braves of Ronald Acuña, Ozzie Albies and Marcel Ozuna. As well as the immensely fun Tampa Bay Rays of...um...that guy! There he is! And his friend too! Also: the Houston Astros are participating. Twitter: @KenSchultz_ @BCB_Sara @CuppaCubbieBlue Insta: @kenthinguy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! EFFY's BIg Gay Brunch put queer identities front and center Saturday afternoon, and who better to unpack it all than two queer pro wrestling connoisseurs. Brian Bell welcomes Elm Hill (Wrestling with Gender) to chat all the battles, moments and, yes, unlimited twinks the show had to offer. LGBTQ pro wrestling is pro wrestling. Book these queens. Period. Follow Elm Hill on Twitter: @tweedslacks Get your copy of Wrestling with Gender at wrestlingwithgender.bigcartel.com 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 i

Hartford community activist Kamora Herrington joins Dawn and Karleigh in a podcast to mourn Monica Roberts, the creator of the award-winning TransGriot blog. Roberts, who died Oct. 5, was known as an advocate, an activist, an avid fan of the Houston Texans and was a former tennis player in high school. We celebrate her life, share tributes from friends, and bring you selected clips from our talk with Monica herself in November 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode of The GAMEDAY TEA D.Gil talks to Torch George, the 16th female member of the Harlem Globetrotters. We discuss her growing up playing basketball, what's it's like being a Harlem Globetrotter, her fight against Grave's Disease, and National Coming Out Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jorik Hendrickx had already been to one Olympic Games when he came out publicly just days ahead of his second, the 2018 Games in South Korea. He had competed in Sochi, Russia, in 2014 and didn't feel comfortable coming out there. We talk with him about all of that, as well as having a sister who is also an Olympic figure skater. Once friendly 'competitors,' he now coaches his sister in her quest for a second Olympics. Plus Jorik talks about quarantining with his boyfriend and learning they truly are made for one another. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's show, Alex speaks with ESPN's Israel Gutierrez about his powerful coming out story, personal tragedy, and the journey to living a fulfilled life as an openly gay man in sports media. Happy National Coming Out Day! Follow Alex on Twitter: @AlexReimer1 Follow Israel on Twitter: @IzGutierrez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Houston Astros are like 2020. We're all just trying to survive until they're done. But they JUST WON'T GO AWAY. And now they're here to ruin the 2020 postseason by embarking on some kind of weird revenge fantasy against the rest of baseball for...watching as they cheated their way to a championship and then not punishing them at all? It's unclear. Today, comedian and friend of the pod Adam Sokol is back to give the Astros the roasting they deserve. Carlos Correa has turned out to be a tool, Dusty Baker's enabling all of this, and the whole thing just makes you want to dunk the American League playoffs in a giant vat of hand sanitizer. Fortunately, there's some genuine fun happening elsewhere in baseball, thanks to non-fraudulent greatness from players like Fernando Tatís Jr, Ronald Acuña, and Cody Bellinger. So we make sure to talk about the other three Division Series too. And we make a bold prediction about tonight's ALDS Game 5 that somehow results in us picking both the Yankees and Rays. So get bent,

Hello, Lovelies! We close out this week's two-fer with an engaging conversation with former AEW Women's World Champion and LGBTQ pro wrestling trailblazer Nyla Rose. The Native Beast has made a habit of making history since signing with AEW last year, becoming the first out transgender woman to sign with a major wrestling promotion. Rose discussing the significance of those moments and the importance of breaking those barriers. She also highlights the personal significance AEW Dynamite's first anniversary holds and what she has in store for the second year of AEW's flagship program. Our prediction: a whole lot of Beast Bombs! Also, we have a fun little surprise regarding LGBT In The Ring's 1st birthday next week. Download, listen & stay tuned, Lovelies! Tune into the AEW Dynamite Anniversary special on Wednesday, October 14 at 8pm ET live on TNT! Follow Nyla Rose on Twitter: @NylaRoseBeast Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag

Hello, Lovelies! We have a doubleheader of shows this week and we're kicking things off with an in-depth conversation with pro wrestler EFFY discussing his Big Gay Brunch event this Saturday. From living works of art to street fight realness, EFFY's Big Gay Brunch is set to showcase a litany of LGBTQ pro wrestling talent deserving of such a stage. EFFY also gets into his personal feelings about the original Big Gay Brunch's postponement and the card's evolution due to the coronavirus pandemic and #SpeakingOut movement. He also answers the age old question: what exactly is a Twink Gauntlet? Stream EFFY's Big Gay Brunch on Fite.tv this Saturday, Oct. 10, at 11am ET Follow EFFY on Twitter: @EFFYlives 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 Ho

They're far away in Southern Sweden right now but Quinn is the toast of the world of soccer as the sport's first out transgender professional player. We talk about deadnaming, transition, trailblazing and a potential appearance in the Tokyo 2021 Summer Olympic Games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

D.Gil talks with soccer player Henry Bethel about his experiences with gay slurs on the pitch, our reaction to Collin Martin of the S.D. Loyal being called a gay slur, and what measures can be taken to stop gay slurs from being used in sports while increasing LBGT activism in soccer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Olympians across the LGBTQ spectrum have been trailblazers when it comes to coming out. Literally hundreds of people who have competed in the Olympic Games have shared their stories publicly, some before competing and some after competing. Among others, we revisit the story of Karen Hultzer, who came out while competing the Olympics. Plus we talk about the stories of other out Olympians over the years, including Greg Louganis, who came out in a particularly special way that empowered LGBTQ athletes at every level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's show, Alex chats with Jeff Rueter, who's a staff writer at The Athletic covering professional soccer. Alex and Jeff talk about the Collin Martin story, and Jeff's coming out as bisexual on Bi Visibility Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As you can hopefully tell from listening over the past year, this podcast is mostly about celebrating your baseball team. I've had guests from across the MLB fan spectrum on and I always enjoy hearing what makes rooting for their team fun. However, there are two exceptions. The Cardinals, obviously. The podcast has to be a minimum level of standards, after all. And the other team that inspires nothing but bile is the Miami neé Florida neé Jeffrey Loria's beloved Marlins. Today, I'm again joined by friend of the pod Kevin McCaffrey (Cubs Brawl: The Away Games Podcast) to go off on the abomination from The Sunshine State. And for once, I'm not talking about Ron DeSantis. The Marlins are what would happen if DeSantis could clone himself nine times. We do a deep dive into Marlins loathsomeness: from their terrible gimmicky history to victimizing other far better fanbases to despicable ownership to horrific 1990s colors. (Teal? Really?!) And above all else...they handed it to the Cubs in Game One. Because, as Kevi

Hello, Lovelies! Bi+ Awareness Month comes to an end this week as Brian welcomes independent wrestling staple Solo Darling to the show. Darling came out publicly as pansexual during Pride month and details that experience while getting into why she was hesitant to make the announcement. The discussion also focuses on issues like bi+ fetishization, fears of not belonging and the #SpeakingOut movement. It's a fun, hard and inspirational conversation that looks to rewrite "chapter one" of being bi+! Follow Solo Darling on Twitter @SoloDarling & Instagram @regulationsolodarling 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

Her mom disowned her when she came out... because that burst her fantasy of having a gay son to go shopping with! Dawn Ennis and Karleigh Chardonnay Webb beam up trans runner, author and advocate Caitlin Spice (YES! That's her real name) from New Zealand to talk about her transition, her work in LGBT children's literature, and what she's reading. As always, we start with the news and, admittedly, it's looking rather grim. TW: suicide. If you are a trans or gender-nonconforming person considering suicide, ages 24 and younger, contact the Trevor Project Lifeline at 1-866-488-7386. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255 and is available to people of all ages and identities. Trans Lifeline can be reached at 877-565-8860. All are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Last week we talked with former Ambassador to Germany and Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell about the push to ban Iran from the Olympic Games after the murder of national-champion wrestler Navid Afkari and in light of human-rights abuses, namely against the LGBTQ community. Our Outsports colleague Ken Schultz, who hosts the great podcast Three Strikes, You're Out podcast on the Outsports network, took us to task and we respond. Plus we talk about the importance of including Iranian athletes in the Olympics, even when the government and its symbols are banned. The Olympics have a way of creating understanding and building bridges across borders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's show, Alex interviews Aria DiMezzo, who is a trans satanist anarchist running for sheriff in New Hampshire. Alex asks Aria about her belief system and decision to run in the Republican primary -- and how she won it. Visit Aria's website for more information: aria4sheriff.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I didn't think I was going to do a Cincinnati Reds episode this year. For most of 2020, the Reds seemed to be spinning their wheels. They finally put together a top notch pitching staff but their hitters steadfastly refused to approach competence. It looked to be another long season--even though it was only 60 games. But lo and behold! Comedian and Queen City native Mark Chalifoux (The Dad) is stopping by to talk Redlegs baseball! As the late Fred Willard once asked, "Hey, wha happa?" Well, suddenly in mid-September, it was like Reds hitters looked up at the clouds and saw the face of Mufasa (voiced by Ted Kluszewski) commanding "Remember who you are." From that point forward, it was as if their offensive philosophy could be summed up as "Oh right...I AM Joey Votto!" And Joey Votto is one of the best things you can be as a baseball player. In this episode, we pay tribute to Votto's awesomeness in many ways: The greatest hitter of this generation. A secret stand-up comedy fan. A Canadian national treasure. And