- James Yamasaki
Three years ago, a disagreement erupted on some ball fields just south of Seattle. The 2008 Gay Softball World Series was under way, an alternate universe of competitive sports that moves each year to a different city, bringing with it nearly 200 gay softball teams from across the United States and Canada, as well as thousands of spectators. Drag queens rally the fans. Shouts of "Giiiiirrrl" carry across the grass. Guys with their arms draped over other guys stand in the dugout, next to women with biceps bigger than their own.
It's serious competition, with all the usual intensity and emotion—including, in 2008, suspicions of cheating.
