How Gay Is Gay Enough?

April 21, 2010 at 8:37 pm

There are times when you just need to pause, take a deep breath, and ask yourself: “What would Iain Dale do?”. We see that:

Three bisexual men filed a lawsuit in Seattle, Washington against the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance (NAGAAA) claiming they were discriminated against for not being gay enough to participate in the organization’s Gay Softball World Series, The Seattle Times reported Tuesday evening.

The three men who filed the suit, Steven Apilado, LaRon Charles and Jon Russ, claim their softball team, D2, was disqualified from participating in the softball championship because the alliance ruled they were “nongay.”

Ooh, get you! There will be handbags…

After D2 qualified for the 2008 championship series, the NAGAAA held a hearing to determine the sexual orientation of D2 players. The plaintiffs allege they were asked “personal and intrusive questions” about their sexual attractions and desires. At one point during the questioning, D2 players were allegedly told, “This is the Gay World Series, not the Bisexual World Series.”

So they are complaining that someone showed them pictures of breasts and asked if that didn’t work for them just a teeny tiny bit? This being in America, of course it’s got nothing to do with…

The men are asking for $75,000 each for emotional distress, are seeking to invalidate the alliance’s findings on the men’s sexual orientations and to reinstate D2’s second-place World Series finish.

…ah yes, money. What a surprise. Why does it always come down to money?