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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How can someone be not gay enough? Kinda like being a little pregnant.
Every baseball team needs a switch-hitter or two. Or three.
That must suck.
Is this for real????? I’m laughing so hard at the ridiculousness of it...discriminated against for not being gay enough....too funny.
I always thought that it was an asset to be a switch hitter in softball.
Some straight men need to try to sign up for this baseball team, then sue the sh##### out of them when they refuse to allow them to join.
I’m sure they can call on the ACLU for legal help. (sarc)
The very first sentence had me laughing.
There's a team called that in L.A.
How do you “prove” you are gay? Is there a test?
Thanks, I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time.
I don’t care what people do in private, which is one reason why I find question even having a Gay Olympics. Sounds like fodder for stereotype jokes.
As to these 3 litigants: What do they propose? Tryouts?
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Gives switch hitter a whole new meaning!
Hesus Key-rist!
What is the hell is the world coming to? There is a guy at work who’s wife left him. He has two kids. After getting upwards of 45, he can’t find a new girlfreind, so he joins a bi-sexual/gay homo swingers group and all of a sudden he’s now gay. Whatever. Wake up one morning and just be gay.
Either you s* d*
or you do not.
They would probably be afraid to “try out” for the team!
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