This week SFist told you the odd tale of discrimination within the glitzy world of softball. (So many, many straight folks play in local gay sports leagues; this shouldn't be a problem, really.) Jerry Pritkin, however, reminds us that anti-straight sentiment in the world of gay sports is nothing new. While playing for Oil Can Harry's softball team back in 1978, a similar thing happened. Check it:

The more things change, the more they seem the same... There was an article in today's Seattle Times about 3 Bi Sexual men who are suing the promoters of the 2008 Gay World Series because they were kicked out of Tournament because they were bi-sexual.

Back in 1978, I played on the Championship Oil Can Harry's softball team, that won the right to represent San Francisco and the S.F. Community Softball League( Originally called the Gay Community Softball League) in the 2nd ever Gay World Series in New York. and the first gay organized sports league in the country. The name was changed because many of the gay players worked for Fortune 500 companies, And feared if their employers found OUT, they could be fired. .. OUR TEAM WAS ALSO KICKED OUT FOR HAVING TOO MANY NON-GAYS The following is a story I wrote . I also gave the story to the Associated Press, and it was picked up by Walter Cronkit's CBS Evening News and Paul Harvey's ABC Radio Commentary...

Read more about Pritkin's Gay Sports History 101.