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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 IndependentWrestling.tv for

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. Also The Week: Team LGB

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 on Spotify and Bandcamp

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 goal is now Paris in 20

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 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

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. Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! Follow Jensen Ryan on Twitter: @jensenryanpw 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 prom

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 Erica Smith and the Mean

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! Follow Pro Wrestling VIBE on Twitter: @PWVibe 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

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. Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! Follow Pro Wrestling VIBE on Twitter: @PWVibe 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 Twitte

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 perspective. Dr. Juniper S