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The Rare Bird that was Rodman with Zach Stafford | THE STORIES

Spinsters

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4.6938 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Zach Stafford joins the Spinsters to share his relationship as a kid in the '90s to Dennis Rodman's gender nonconformity, and to explore the question of why there have been so few openly queer athletes competing in male sports since. Spinsters fans! We want to learn more about you! If you have time, it would mean a lot if you could fill this quick survey out. Everyone who fills it out will be entered for a chance to win some Spinsters gear!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh, if you ever catch me starting a recording, by the way, doing like my baby voice, which is just like a quiet, sounds like I'm shy voice. I hate hearing it on pot. When I open it up and I'm like, God, you've got the baby voice again. Just stop me and be like, Haley, be louder. Speak like an adult. Puff your chest out a little. Okay. All right. Gotcha. Okay.

0:26.1

Welcome to Spinsters, a podcast for the girls in the gays. Hi, Jordan. Hi. Happy pride to you.

0:34.8

Thank you. Obviously, as you can tell from my voice, I've been celebrating.

0:40.5

I was thinking about the last big time that I've celebrated pride. I celebrated in New York a

0:49.0

couple weeks, or a couple weeks, a couple years ago. And one time I was in San Diego during their pride parade

0:56.2

and Natasha Benningfield was performing. What? Release your inhibitions. Release your inhibitions.

1:04.3

The rest is still unwritten. That Natasha Bettingfield. It was amazing and it was a welcomed surprise. So that's a good little

1:12.9

memory that I have. That's amazing. As the pride parades have gotten a little bit, like there

1:18.5

have been so much tension this year about are they, you know, going to corporate, are we

1:24.5

protecting the core of pride? It has always been nice and I will say it's always at the forefront, like the WMBA.

1:31.9

I just want to like applaud your girls.

1:33.8

Yeah.

1:34.7

The W has, I mean, we know that they are at the forefront and have led so many charges.

1:40.5

And especially, you know, most recently, Lasia Clareden, who is a WMBA player and just had an

1:47.1

amazing feature by Katie Barnes and ESPN.

1:50.7

And they are the first openly trans player to get top surgery.

1:58.1

And just from the W as a unit, everyone has been so supportive and it was wonderful to

2:04.7

see. Yeah. And shout out Katie Barnes. Yeah, definitely. Okay, guys, we will be right back after the

2:10.4

break. Something you and I talk about a lot and something that's unavoidable when talking about how Pride Month fits into sports

2:19.4

is that it's extremely lopsided between male and female sports and who has led the charge

2:27.0

and done the extremely vulnerable and I'm guessing scary thing of sharing their sexuality with

2:32.7

the public and their fans. And I forever want to

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