0.18. Take Me Out to the Ball Gayme: Will Graham Talks "A League of Their Own"
History is Gay
Leigh Pfeffer
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Have you, like our dear host Leigh, gotten totally sucked into the amazing new Amazon Prime adaptation of A League of Their Own? Do you want to hear all about the show, its meticulous research into queer life of the 1940s and how the writers, producers, and cast opened up the scope of the movie to focus on the lives of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League's queer players? Well then, hop in to this episode, where I'm joined by co-creator Will Graham to dive deep into A League of Their Own, early queer nightlife, the importance of representation both on and behind the camera, and what it means to be a young, queer kid who just wants to play ball and has finally found their team.
Where To Find Will Graham Online:
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@WillWGraham on Twitter
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@willwisslergraham on Instagram
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@LeagueOnPrime on Twitter
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@LeagueOnPrime on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to another interview episode that I did back in October that I'm so happy to finally be bringing to you. |
| 0:09.1 | This one that you're about to listen to is one of my favorites. |
| 0:12.7 | I got the opportunity to hang out with Will Graham, the co-creator and producer for the new A League of Their Own series. |
| 0:21.6 | And I could not be more excited about the opportunity to talk about the show with him as well as just his love of queer history and the way that so much of that was infused into the show. |
| 0:35.1 | Hope this will tide you over until next month when we'll be doing a |
| 0:38.3 | full episode on the queer history of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and just |
| 0:44.1 | queer women in baseball at the time. I'm going to be joined by Frankie De La Cretta, who is a sports |
| 0:49.7 | journalist and who wrote a wonderful article back in 2018 on the queer history of the league and did a |
| 0:55.4 | phenomenal amount of research. And so I'm really excited to get to collaborate with them on an |
| 1:01.6 | episode really diving into some of the things that I got to chat with Will about. So I hope you all |
| 1:07.0 | are having a wonderful continued start to your 2023, and we'll see you for our next one. |
| 1:13.1 | We've always been here every single year, from ancient gays right up to today's sea, his story is queer. |
| 1:27.1 | Some think it's a new way, but we've got something to say. |
| 1:35.1 | History is very, very, very, very gay. |
| 1:43.1 | Hey, everyone, welcome to History is Gay. |
| 1:47.0 | I'm Lee, and I am coming to you in your podcast feeds with a very exciting bonus episode. |
| 1:54.9 | I have had my entire brain taken over with the wonderful new Amazon series, a league of their own, |
| 2:06.1 | basically expanding the world of one of my favorite movies from when I was a kid, |
| 2:10.0 | and it's delightfully queer, meticulously researched, and just an absolute queer joy. |
| 2:16.1 | If you've listened to this show, you know that the majority of things that I talk about when they're not queer history and I'm talking about media tend to be with Zena. |
| 2:24.2 | This is the first piece of media that's attached onto my brain in this sort of way since that. |
| 2:30.0 | So it's the highest of praise from me. |
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