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Hello, Lovelies! It's time to make Texas queerer! We welcome Divine Diana Ramsey to the show to discuss EFFY's Big Gay Brunch Dallas. She and Brian Bell discuss violent clashes between Max The Impaler and Edith Surreal, Dark Sheik and Parrow and Keita and Billy Dixon. They also discuss Kidd Bandit's BGB debut, celebrate the legend Pimpinela Escarlata and so much more from the queerest show of WrestleMania week! Follow Divine Diana Ramsey on Twitter: @DivineDiRamsey 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 promotion

Hello, Lovelies! WrestleMania week is over, which means it's time to relive and unpack it all on LGBT In The Ring! We kick off our coverage by welcoming Patches Chance (Let Them Wrestle) to chat night one of WrestleMania 38. From Bianca's conquest of Becky Lynch to Cody Rhodes' return to Stone Cold's final match, they and Brian Bell hit the highs and lows of the first of two wild nights in Dallas! Follow Patches Chance on Twitter: @patcheschance 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 pro

She has the nickname, "Her Thighness". A plain-speaking Ph.D. from Canada with a dash of snark, a lot of heart, and a love for what she calls "chess and dueling on bikes" Dr. Veronica Ivy has won two UCI masters track cycling world championships and is training for a attempt to win another with the return of the championship event after a 2-year COVID hiatus. From her first title in 2018, she has stood out and spoke out from trans rights in sports, and she does without apology. She's given master classes at the intersection of sporting policy and human rights in classrooms, lecture halls, and in some of the toughest rooms in news media. This week she gets beamed up to our room for a sit down with Karleigh Webb that gets underneath the aero helmet for a probing interview that gets into the athlete, the activist, and a self-described "chick who just want to play sports". Also this week Anti-trans attorney general threaten Biden Administration over trans student-athletes After Lia: Emily Bridges left out of co

Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about Emily Bridges, the transgender cyclist who won championships against men, and is now slated to compete against women. This promises to be an even bigger story than Lia Thomas. Alex also provides an update on the Brittney Griner situation and asks when the NFL will mandate that teams must hire LGBTQ. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! In a special WrestleMania week bonus episode, we welcome WWE's Sonya Deville to the show! She and Brian Bell discuss the big two-day event this weekend, LGBTQ visibility in WWE and pro wrestling as a whole, Deville's work with LGBTQ advocacy organizations and her heavily memed moment from Total Divas. Follow Sonya Deville on Twitter: @SonyaDevilleWWE 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 tinyurl.com/IWTVLGBT Learn more about your ad cho

Hello, Lovelies! It's WrestleMania week, which means the return of GCW's The Collective and EFFY's Big Gay Brunch! So it's only natural that we welcome EFFY back to the show to chat about making Texas gayer. He and Brian Bell discuss Saturday's Big Gay Brunch card, including EFFY's match against lucha leyenda Pimpinela Escarlata, his "Terry Funk-esque" run over the last year and why using the Big Gay Brunch to raise money for the Transgender Education Network of Texas is vital to the event's mission. Follow EFFY on Twitter: @EFFYlives EFFY's Big Gay Brunch airs live on FITE this Saturday, April 2, at 12pm ET/9am PT 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 Bandca

On Thursday night March 31, 2022 at a small stadium south of London, England, there will be a rather special match on fixture. The match will make soccer history on Transgender Day of Visibility. Dulwich Hamlet FC, a women's squad at the top of a league table in the fifth division will meet TRUK United FC, the soccer team organized by Trans Radio UK. The TRUK United FC side will be composed entirely of players who are transgender women. Perhaps the first such side organized in the English FA, and possibly in the entire world. Joining Karleigh Webb to give a preview of this special match are one of the key voices for sport and inclusion in the UK and a trans pioneer in "The Beautiful Game". Lucy Clark is the team's manager and the teams midfield "Number 10" playmaker. In 2018 she became the first out transgender person of officiate an FA league game, and now is a referee in the third level of the women's pyramid. Natalie Washington is the head of the Football v. Transphobia campaign, that has sparked a great d

D.Gil spills the tea on a variety of epic sports topics that happened this month that truly encompassed the term "March Madness", Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about Cyd Zeigler's feature story on Thom Brennaman, and whether he deserves a second chance after uttering a gay slur on-air 18 months ago. Cyd spoke solely to other LGBTQ people, who rightfully were the ones telling the story. They all say Brennaman is doing the work, and it sure looks like it. Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! It's west coast all day this week as we welcome back the High Priestess of the Church of Wrestling, Dark Sheik! She and Brian Bell discuss her rise in GCW over the last year, including memorable battles with Nick Gage and Allie Katch, and bringing the influential promotion she founded, Hoodslam, back to crowds of thousands in the Bay Area. Sheik also discusses her upcoming Wrestlemania weekend matches against Charles Mason and Parrow and being named to the second class of Paris Honors! Follow Dark Sheik on Twitter: @darksheikftf Follow Hoodslam on Twitter: @HOODSLAM 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 IndependentWrestlin

Last week, pride, prejudice and history came together at the NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships. It was end of the line in the Lia Thomas saga. It ended with some bittersweet success, and with controversy that parachuted in from the U.S. and the UK. What followed was a run of records, cheer, tears, a dominant Virginia, Iszac Henig with the tattoo of the week and move over, Ms. Telfer, make room for Ms. Thomas as trans student-athletes who can also call themselves National Champions And look who returned to this bridge from the "away team" in Atlanta. Our old captain and podcast co-founder Dawn Ennis, now of Forbes, RETURNS!!! and talks about a week of history, destiny...and dust up with an infamous TERF. Welcome back aboard, Captain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nicole Heavirland had told herself for many years that she couldn't be gay and certainly could never come out. Growing up in Montana, it just wasn't done. Now the Olympic rugby player for Team USA is coming out and finding love and accolades from family and friends. She hopes to inspire other athletes to be their true selves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex talks about the complexities of the Brittney Griner case, and why raising widespread outrage may not be the best way to pressure Russia. Alex also talks about Lia Thomas' success at the NCAA Championships and why Carl Nassib's release has NOTHING to do with homophobia. Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! This week we welcome "The Fat, Femme Asian Sensation" Mateo Valentine to the show! Valentine and Brian Bell chat transitioning from theater to pro wrestling, NLA Is For Everyone and his continued advocacy for queer POC and Asian-American representation. Follow Mateo Valentine on Twitter: @mateovalentine8 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 tinyurl.com/IWTVLGBT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of the points of discussion of those who have been adversaries of transgender women in sport specifically is how a person body is used against them as evidence that they "don't belong". In the current discourse leading into this week's NCAA Division Swimming and Diving championships, the bodies of both transgender student-athletes competing, Penn's Lia Thomas and Yale's Iszac Henig, have been studied, discussed and in some cases weaponized . It is something seen before in sport, but this case seems hit some more raw places, especially when Lia Thomas, as a transgender woman, is the center of this conversation To get a perspective on it, Karleigh Webb sits down to have a discussion on this critical underlying issue with someone for whom such issues are her business, and question on justice surrounded anthem has been her cause. Chelsea Poe is fast becoming a top-drawer erotic filmmaker and performer, with a global performer of the year award to her credit in 2021, and she's only 30. She also been one to be

D.Gil is joined by Drexel University student Zeke Goldsmith to share his thoughts on marketing in sports, his plans post-graduation, and innovative programs for LGBTQ inclusion at Drexel University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Saturday! On this week's show, Alex discusses Outsports' expose into old anti-gay tweets from 40 NBA players, and why their words matter -- regardless of when they were written. Alex also examines the shameful lack of coverage surrounding Britney Griner's Russian detainment. Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! We're talking AEW Revolution this week with FanFyte's own Colette Arrand. She and Brian Bell discuss their favorite moments from the show, including the significance of CM Punk and MJF's dog collar match, Eddie Kingston topping Chris Jericho and Sting's balcony dive. They also discuss how the battle of Adams solidified Adam Page as a champion in our eyes. Follow Colette Arrand on Twitter: @colettearrand Follow FanFyte on Twitter: @FanFyte 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 worldwid

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Paul Poirier came out publicly as gay last year, and then competed in the Beijing Winter Olympics. He and ice dance partner Piper Gilles has a top-10 finish, dressed in stunning outfits for both programs. Now they are focused on professional figure skating, even while Poirier keeps a third Olympics in his sights. Production note: Please excuse the static that clicks from time to time through the podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices