The newark times review. Both devious covered many of these authors. You can watch the full programs on our website, booktv. Org. Host and now were joined by cyd zeigler whose book is called fair play how lgbtq athletes are claiming their rightful place in sports. G heres the cover. First of all all, youre the cofounder of sports. Com which is what . Guest out sports was started many years ago because being gay sports fans we realize gave people did want to talk about sports and people in sports did want to talk about gay issues. But we did and we knew that there was a large group of people who were like us. So we started talking about these issues, talk about homophobia in sports, athletes coming out on their teams, and slowly we kind of became the experts in becaus there becausee the only ones talking about it. Im talking about back in 1999, 2000, 2001. Slowly as for facial thousand one. Slowly as professional athletes started coming out of the closet in womens sports and in mens spo
Not know all lots of things but more importantly i wanted to tell my story and explain my role. Not to justify or even to condemn those involved but to be as honest as i possibly could [inaudible conversations] i am here with scott farris and author of inga who was inga . In 1931 she was an actress, ballerina, anthropo logist, explore, concert pianist, hollywood gossip columnist comiskey screenwriter paul also the great love of jfk and they wanted to marry each other but she was a suspected not to spy issue is merry to second husband. You believe that is inaccurate accusations as a suspected nazi spy . 1200 page fbi file i would say all ultimately was concluded she was not a spy but she was considered the prime suspect with the entire as being not Network Based on circumstantial evidence but even hoover himself was convinced and president roosevelt even intervene to and have her phone tapped and her male opened in Department Budget was remarkable. Un the author of two other things book
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Fairplay how lgbt athletes are claiming the rightful place in sports. Color, mister cyd zeigler, you are the cofounder of outsports. Com which is what . Outsports was started many years ago because being gay sports fans we realize gay people didnt want to talk about sports and people in sports didnt want to talk about gay issues but we did and we knew there was a larger group of people who are like us so we started outsports to talk about these issues, talk about homophobia in sports, athletes coming out on their teams and slowly we kind of became the experts in the area because we were the only ones talking about it. Im talking about back in 1999 it 2000, 2001. As slowly as professional athletes coming out of the closet in womens court and mens sports, Mainstream Media started paying a little more attention because they liked it. They like to Pay Attention to professional athletes. Thehigh School Athletes that we focused on and the Smaller School College Athletes we write a lot about,
Hello, a lot to get to this sunday morning. Most of us are begging for spring. So much of the country battered by the recordbreaking winter. And u. S. This weekend, yet another blizzard in the northeast. And out west, an epic drought. Whats behind the weird weather, what can be done about it, and abc meteorologist ginger zee starts us off. Reporter most of the nation is in a state of meteorology exhaustion. The coldest winter in minnesota in 33 years. The great lakes, almost 90 frozen. Normally it would be just over 30. And new york city, buried. Now in their top ten snowiest seasons. Snowfall totals from North Carolina up to indianapolis between two and three times their normal. 75,000 flights cancelled since december 1st. Thats an alltime record. And pennsylvania, theyve been in the heart of the misery, a giant pile up on friday. Abcs linn swree janice was right there. Reporter the sun was shining, the roads mostly clear, but there was one problem, temperatures plummeted overnight an