Posted on 04/21/2010 1:08:32 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy
SEATTLE - Three bisexual men have filed a federal lawsuit against a national gay-sports organization, claiming they were unfairly deemed not gay enough to play for a gay softball team during the Gay Softball World Series.
Steven Apilado, LaRon Charles and Jon Russ contend the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance discriminated against them during the Gay Softball World Series held in Seattle in August 2008.
The lawsuit, first reported by The Seattle Times and the Seattle Weekly, was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court. It accuses the alliance of violating Washington state laws barring discrimination.
According to the lawsuit, the three California men were on a softball team called D2 that advanced to the championship game in Seattle. During the game, play was stopped several times after the team that lost to them in the semifinals protested that D2 was in violation of a league rule permitting no more than "two heterosexual players" on a team.
Following the championship game, which D2 lost, Apilado, Charles and Russ were each separately called into a conference room in front of more than 25 people for a "hearing" by the Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance to determine whether each was "heterosexual" or "gay," the lawsuit says.
The men say they were forced to answer "highly personal and intrusive questions" about their sexual interests and private life, including whether they were "predominantly attracted to men" or "predominantly attracted to women."
At one point during the proceedings, the lawsuit alleges, one of the plaintiffs was told: "This is the Gay World Series, not the Bisexual World Series."
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Guess they smelled something a little fishy about these guys.
Sad, but I fear true.
Heterophobia.
They need more diversity in their ranks.
I bet the bench clearing brawls are a real treat.
“Coach, I understand your whole team is on the disabled list for sprained wrists from slap fights, bruised egos, and hurt feelings from harsh language?”
Way to go homos - show us how stable your lifestyle really is, love to hear your argument. Give us something to laugh at.
Funny, they want to be married and treated like equals but when it comes to gay softball, they sound like petty bitches.
The quota systems the Left railed against are still in place. Break the lavender ceiling.
They need someone who can catch as well as pitch.
It’s all about going to the showers after working up a sweat...
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Obama isn’t black enough, these “switch hitters” ain’t gay enough, I am not rich enough.......life is a bitch!
**How can someone be not gay enough?**
They also wondered if Fuhrer Obama was BLACK ENOUGH!
Wow. How sad. I think somebody should organize a March on Washington in order publicize the sad plight of the “not gay enough” in our society. I never realized they were being tretaed so poorly “big-homosexual”.
You can’t make this crap up!
No problem with him being discriminated against for THAT...
I don’t think we want to go there...
I KNOW I don’t.
Are you trying to get me banned ? You can't imagine how hard this is for a Utah man to not recite every sick BYU joke we came up with all those years when they were tromping us in football .
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