D.Gil gives his thoughts on the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and hero Mark Bingham.

Mark Bingham

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The 2021 NFL season is officially underway! On this week's show, Alex talks about the league's praiseworthy LGBTQ outreach efforts, and why it's OK for the cynics to give the NFL some credit.

Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1.

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Hello, Lovelies! A Big Gay Brunch went down in Chicago on Sunday, so grab a pastry, a mimosa and relive the chaos of one of the gayest wrestling events of the summer! Brian Bell welcomes his close friend and former co-host Andrew Clough to the show for a queer-het connection break down of the event. They chat about standout competitors, matches and Andrew's own journey into understanding why queer and other underrepresented groups' presence in pro wrestling matters so deeply.

Also, listen to the end for the latest on this year's QWI list!

Follow Andrew Clough on Twitter: @achater3283

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

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Hello, Lovelies! After a week off, we're back to tackle AEW's best event yet: All Out 2021. Brian Bell welcomes Phil Lindsey (Bleacher Report, Daily DDT) and Patches Chance (Daily DDT, RealSport101) to the show help break it all down. From CM Punk's return to the Lucha Brothers' steel cage of emotion to an appearance from Murder Daddy himself, Minoru Suzuki, All Out packed so many memorable moments into a 4-hour package. And that's even before we get to Adam Cole, Ruby Soho, Brian Danielson and Paul Wight going deep on a chokeslam!

Follow Phil Lindsey on Twitter: @PhilDL616

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 promo code “LGBTRingPod” or visit tinyurl.com/IWTVLGBT

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The episode marks the 100th episode of the Trans Sporter Room, and it comes in a week that had some breaking news, and for an MMA hopeful, a big break at last.

We say goodbye to emmy-nominated actor Michael K. Williams, the force behind one of the most iconic LGBTQ characters on American television, and what his presence and talent meant to many, including this show's host

Inclusion completes a winning time in Tokyo with Team LGBTQ Paralympians setting a standard for tomorrow

A women's pro league decided to take "women" out of the name

And after a COVID delay, MMA fighter Alana McLaughlin is just days away from a debut, and history. A special encore excerpt from Karleigh Webb's interview with her in July

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The 2021 NFL season is here and D.Gil shares his thoughts on each divisional NFL teams, his picks on divisional winners, and his locked in Super Bowl winning team. Spoiler* They've won the Super Bowl recently!

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Happy Labor Day Weekend! On this week's show, Alex talks about a variety of LGBTQ sports stories, including Carl Nassib making the Raiders' roster. So far, the biggest story about the first active openly gay player in NFL history is that it hasn't been a story. Now the question is, will that continue into the regular season?

Follow Alex on Twitter, @AlexReimer1.

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Mets fans have spent most of the past month booing their own players--and their frustration is understandable. It was a rough August!

But then Mets fans and the media decided to turn Javy Báez into the biggest villain in New York for having the temerity to boo them right back. And that's when your humble podcaster goes full-on Ash vs. Evil Dead and tells all of Queens to "Come get some."

Friend of the pod Sara Sanchez returns and we leap to Javy's defense the way he leaps after literally any line drive that has the misfortune to cross his path. We explain why neither of us likes booing the home team and how doing so doesn't make you a smarter or more sophisticated fan. Even if Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo insists it does. (And honestly, should you really be taking sophistication lessons from a grown man who insists on sticking "Mad Dog" in the middle of his name?) Plus we dig into the biases of baseball media power brokers and how quickly they turn a deaf ear to marginalized voices.

NOTE: My apologies that the audio is occasionally a little glitchy. My zoom connection was wonky but I hope you agree it's worth the occasional hiccup. Our discussion gets pretty deep!

Twitter: @KenSchultz_ @BCB_Sara

Insta: @kenthinguy

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This week we talk to someone who helps keep some threads together when COVID frayed them out.

The COVID pandemic affect in terms of keep many apart was especially difficult on LGBTQ communities. Many meeting places, safe spaces, and support spaces were shutdown and some of those haven't come back despite the effort to reopen. Such situations hit trans communities hard, especially trans youth.

At the same time, the coordinated assault on trans rights but power anti-LGBTQ concerns also grew to be nearly as virulent as coronavirus.

In this breach stepped New England-based DJ Xandra Xero. For the last year, she's been locked out of the clubs due to the pandemic, but locked in on giving shut-in people and virtual space to get down, and along the way she's used her virtual sets, dubbed "Trans Dans" to raise money for a bevy of national trans-related causes.

She has another fundraising, and planed back-to-school bash via Twitch.Tv and sat down with our Karleigh Webb to discuss how she got her groove flowing through the pandemic, how music is a part of her own journey, and how she is combining turntables, mixers and beats into a heartbeat to keep things together in a tough time.

Also this week

Paralympic Update: Team LGBTQ makes their move, including some golden moves

More on the New York Times and all the news that's fit to cis

Trans Joy: A Pride put their foot down on TERFS, Shon Faye's first book hits the shelves, and CeCé Telfer

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Cuoper Gunn shares his coming out journey with D.Gil along with sharing insight on an average day in college and what it means to be an out queer soccer player.

Wearing a Pride shirt inspired a gay college soccer captain to come out - Outsports

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