{"id":1606183,"date":"2022-08-15T07:50:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1606183"},"modified":"2022-08-15T07:51:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:51:05","slug":"amazon-series-a-league-of-their-own-makes-lead-characters-gay-brings-back-rosie-odonnell-as-queer-bar-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-series-a-league-of-their-own-makes-lead-characters-gay-brings-back-rosie-odonnell-as-queer-bar-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Series &#8220;A League Of Their Own&#8221; Makes Lead Characters Gay, Brings Back Rosie O\u2019Donnell As Queer Bar Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famazon-series-a-league-of-their-own-makes-lead-characters-gay-brings-back-rosie-odonnell-as-queer-bar-owner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1606183&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Amazon Prime Video\u2019s new streaming series, <em>A League of Their Own<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 based on the\u00a01992 baseball film \u2014 will be a \u201ccoming out\u201d story filled with multiple LGBTQ narratives, including the return of original star Rosie O\u2019Donnell as the owner of a gay bar.<\/p>\n<p>While nobody in the original 1992 film is gay, the show\u2019s co-creator and star\u00a0Abbi Jacobson says \u201cIt\u2019s an iconic gay film,\u201d and the new show will be a\u00a0coming-out story for its two central characters, Carson (Jacobson) and Max (Chant\u00e9 Adams),\u00a0according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/a-league-of-their-own-baseball-abbi-jacobson-lgbtq-tom-hanks-150021617.html\">report<\/a> by Yahoo! Entertainment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLike no one\u2019s gay, but maybe they are!\u2026 I think a lot of queer people feel a connection to that film,\u201d\u00a0Jacobson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were always about expanding this lens and showcasing a generation of women playing baseball, and also showcasing the queer stories that were not told in the film,\u201d she added.\u00a0\u201cMax and Carson are really the hinge of this show, and ping pong back and forth between these two worlds as they\u2019re going through very different journeys on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the show, Carson is a married woman with a soldier husband who is away at war. After joining the Rockford Peaches \u2014 one of the founding All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) teams \u2014\u00a0her teammate Greta (D\u2019Arcy Carden) stirs up homosexual feelings that she had previously pushed away. Meanwhile,\u00a0Max \u2014 who has a boyfriend \u2014 is wrestling with her attraction to women.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The series, which premieres Friday on\u00a0Prime Video, even touches upon the issue of transgenderism, as Max finds out that her\u00a0estranged aunt Bertie (Lea Robinson) has been passing as a man for years, which leads\u00a0her to begin experimenting with her own gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>While the show subtly touches upon transgenderism, co-creator\u00a0Will Graham and\u00a0executive producer Desta Tedros Reff say that Max will not turn into an actual transgender character.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a queer story, not specifically a transgender story,\u201d Reff said. \u201cMax is on her own journey of queerness, and sort of seeing what parts of her fit and feel true and what parts don\u2019t quite fit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The series will also feature the return of Rosie O\u2019Donnell \u2014 who played third base player Doris Murphy in the 1992 film \u2014 as a new character.<\/p>\n<p>In the new\u00a0<em>A League of Their Own<\/em>,\u00a0O\u2019Donnell \u2014 who came out as gay in 2002 \u2014 plays\u00a0Vi, the owner of a LGBTQ-friendly bar where some of the baseball players congregate in secret after dark.<\/p>\n<p>One episode reportedly ends with Vi\u2019s bar being raided by police, with Carson and Greta just barely escaping.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana\u00a0Mastrangelo on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Prime Video\u2019s new streaming series, A League of Their Own\u00a0\u2014 based on the\u00a01992 baseball film \u2014 will be a \u201ccoming out\u201d story filled with multiple LGBTQ narratives, including the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1606338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1606338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}