“Our community needs healthy competitive outlets where different parts of the community can come together without fear for their safety or fear of their belonging.”
Annie Nelson tells why she enjoys playing softball with Stonewall Sports League. The inclusive organization is for LGBTQ+ individuals and allies.Since community sports non-profit Stonewall Sports established an Indianapolis chapter, LGBTQ+ members and allies have joined the organization – looking for and finding different things.
“Our community needs healthy competitive outlets where different parts of the community can come together without fear for their safety or fear of their belonging,” Merkley said. The teams are not required to be split up by gender. Nelson said she likes this because it holds everyone to the same competitive level and is inclusive of transgender and nonbinary people.Each division of each league competes at the end of the season in a championship tournament. The winners of each division get to pick a philanthropic organization and Stonewall will make a donation to each one. Last kickball season, the winners picked Friends of Frederick Douglass Park and GenderNexus.
Most days these sideline conversations center around trivia spots and stories about fun nights out. But she also knows she is free to talk about her issues as well. She is free to talk about how church leaders at her college would say that it was okay to be gay but not to act on it. She is free to discuss how she always knew she was “not completely straight" in a hometown where she felt wrong for being anything but.“In high school, you had to force me to play,” he said. “I just hated them.
Crawford thought kickball, a game he played as a kid, would be easy. He quickly discovered it’s much more complicated when people actually want to win. But Crawford said he doesn’t mind because he loves the competitive nature of the league. “Even when we lost, oh, we still had fun,” Phillips said about her team. “We would joke on the field and everything.”
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