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The Queer Sports Project: Come Out and Play! @ TCAF

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A comics anthology celebrating LGBTQ+ stories in sports! Published by award-winning Stacked Deck Press! Kickstarter launches March 4: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stackeddeckpress/come-out-and-play-the-queer-sports-project

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The Queer Sports Project: Come Out and Play! @ TCAF @queersportsproject.bsky.social · Mar 4

Time to get in the game. The Kickstarter campaign for Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project is live! This full-color #comics #anthology about #LGBTQ+ people and their love of #sports features the work of over two dozen comics creators! Back it today here:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

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The Queer Sports Project: Come Out and Play! @ TCAF @queersportsproject.bsky.social · 1d

I love the smell of Kickstarter fulfillment in the morning…or early afternoon…whatever…

#kickstarter #fulfillment #ComeOutAndPlay #lgbtqcomics #sportscomics #queercomics

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Shelby @vanekatthedisco.bsky.social · 4d

A headline stating “former Russian Olympic ice hockey coach Vladimir Plyushchev has blamed ‘petty bisexuals’ for the country’s exclusion at the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics”.

Bryan Cranston pointing at himself going “me?”

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Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social · 12d

the opened up the first lesbian sports bar in chicago yesterday and they had to shut down for the rest of the weekend because they ran out of liquor😭😭😭

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Scarleteen @scarleteen.com · 14d

LGTBQ+ youth disproportionately experience homelessness compared to their straight and cis peers. In the US, up to 40% of unhoused youth identify as LGBTQ+.

That’s why this series was created - to provide support, essential tips, and resources to youth who are so often overlooked by the system.

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Stacked Deck Press @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social · 13d

Prism Comics is hosting the book launch of Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project at Los Angeles Comic Con! We had a delightful panel discussion, and now until 6:00 PM we’re having a book signing at booth 1420! @queersportsproject.bsky.social @prismcomics.bsky.social

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Stacked Deck Press @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social · 13d

I am signing books at the @prismcomics.bsky.social table at booth 1420 at Los Angeles Comic Con! Stop by and get the latest from Stacked Deck Press, Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project! We also have the ever popular Sports Are Gay five-panel cap! @queersportsproject.bsky.social

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The Queer Sports Project: Come Out and Play! @ TCAF @queersportsproject.bsky.social · 17d

Happy bi visibility day!

a pink and blue heart with a smaller heart in the center

Alt: a gif of a radiating pink and blue and purple heart

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 22d

Support independent media, now more than ever. Not just news and politics, but film, TV, fashion and other cultural criticism and commentary, from podcasts to apps to good old-fashioned web sites. Pay for it. Turn your adblocker off so they can keep the lights on. Share it.

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Laurz Drawz | they/them @illaurastrates.bsky.social · 29d

As promised! Here are two pages from 'One on One' an all new Sapphic sports comic written and illustrated by yours truly, coming soon!....ish 🏀

Comic book page featuring two women in a heated confrontation playing basketball

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 24d

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 24d

people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life

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Fanbase Press @fanbasepress.bsky.social · 25d

The GLAAD Media Award-winning coming-of-age graphic novel, FOUR-COLOR HEROES, by @richardfairgray.bsky.social is available from Fanbase Press! Two boys from wildly different worlds find love and self-discovery through comics

fanbasepress.ecrater.com/p/42007307/f...

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Meghan Kemp-Gee, SPORTS POET @meghankempgee.bsky.social · 25d

This is gonna rock! Women’s sports anthology from Lifeline Comics :

Kat Calamia @NYCC L-21 @comicuno.bsky.social · 25d

PAID WORK - CALLING COMIC CREATORS!

Lifeline Comics - Creators of the Ringo Nominated Transphoria and Hairology are opening submissions for our next anthology WOMEN SPORTS!

DUE DATE: OCTOBER 19th 11:59 PM EST

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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The Queer Sports Project: Come Out and Play! @ TCAF @queersportsproject.bsky.social · 25d

Join Come Out and Play contributors Andy Casdonte, @dogspunk.bsky.social, Steve MacIsaac, @meganpraz.bsky.social, @sonyasaturdayart.bsky.social, and @losthiskeysman.bsky.social for a panel discussion at Los Angeles Comic Con! Saturday Sept 27 at 3PM in room 402B and the book signing at booth 1420!

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 28d

“I’m thrilled to have another opportunity to compete and continue using this platform to represent and inspire others,” Reeves said.

How this transgender American Ninja Warrior athlete finds strength in sports

Clayton Reeves, who became one of the first out trans men to reach the show's semifinals, is using the platform to advocate for LGBTQ+ visibility.

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Sadia @sadiabies.bsky.social · 28d

I love seeing queer artists draw bodies. Queer attraction and beauty has such range to it, and I love seeing body types and parts that we've been told are ugly drawn with such care. I love getting to see the body from so many different perspectives

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The Queer Sports Project: Come Out and Play! @ TCAF @queersportsproject.bsky.social · 28d

Stacked Deck Press will be sitting in once again with our friends @prismcomics.bsky.social at Los Angeles Comic Con! We’ll be debuting our latest publication Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project! Join us for a panel discussion and a book signing with several of our talented contributors!

The Queer Sports Project: Come Out and Play! @ TCAF @queersportsproject.bsky.social · Sep 5

Got mailers. Got stickers. Now we need the books to get into fulfillment for Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project!

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Your neighborhood autism creature @splumpi.bsky.social · Aug 24

Do not stop. Be the people who get arrested for repainting a memorial.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · Aug 24

YOU MUST MAINTAIN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER! HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.

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The Queer Sports Project: Come Out and Play! @ TCAF @queersportsproject.bsky.social · Aug 24

It's official! Sports icon @thechrismosier.bsky.social is writing our FOREWORD!

He's "the man who changed the Olympics": an 8-time Team USA member, 5-time Men’s National Champion, and founder of TransAthlete.com.

Read this fierce, proud essay in COME OUT AND PLAY! Get your copy: kck.st/41Hjqj6

Macro image with a quote from Chris Mosier: "The truth is this: we've been here all along. ... We play sports because our bodies are not apologies. We play because competition runs in our blood just as fiercely as pride does. We play because when we move -- when we sprint, leap, throw, tackle, dance across ice or grass or court -- we become undeniably, powerfully ourselves."

A picture of a page from Chris Mosier's foreword to Come Out and Play.

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The Queer Sports Project: Come Out and Play! @ TCAF @queersportsproject.bsky.social · Aug 24

We're so HONORED to announce that @heatherhogan.bsky.social is writing our book's INTRO!!

We're big fans of Heather's AWESOME writing about sports, queerness, & pop culture.

Read her beautiful essay in COME OUT AND PLAY this fall! Preorder your copy: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

Picture of writer/editor Heather Hogan, wearing glasses and smiling in front of a bookshelf

A macro image of a quotation from Heather Hogan:

"As I was reading Come Out and Play the first time, with tears running down my face, I kept thinking, "This is me! Here I am!" Come Out and Play is about all of us. Folks for whom sports and queerness are tangled together, inextricable. Queer athletes, at all levels, who want to be their full selves, on the field and the court and the pitch, in the weightroom and the pool, at the skatepark and the gym."

A page from Heather Hogan's introduction to Come Out and Play.

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Lane! Draws! Comics! @lanedraws.bsky.social · Jul 31

I've got 2 cover slots available still to help pay some bills. Turnaround is fairly quick, and I've worked for AHOY, IDW, IMAGE, ONI, CEX, LEGENDARY, and hopefully, you! Please share if you can.

Portfolio: lanelloyd.crevado.com

#comics #art #comicjobs

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Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · Aug 18

NEW: I spoke to SJ Joslin, a park ranger and wildlife biologist who was fired by Yosemite National Park last week for helping to raise a transgender pride flag on the park's iconic El Capitan rock face.

For @nbcnews.com:
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

Park ranger fired after helping drape a transgender pride flag on Yosemite's El Capitan

The ex-ranger said they plan to fight the decision, citing an executive order issued by President Trump that protects Americans’ free speech rights.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jonah Newman @jonahnewmancomics.bsky.social · Aug 12

It’s here!!! It’s real!!!!!! Let’s goooo @queersportsproject.bsky.social @meghankempgee.bsky.social @meganpraz.bsky.social

The Queer Sports Project: Come Out and Play! @ TCAF @queersportsproject.bsky.social · Aug 11

Advance copies of Come Out and Play: The Queer Sports Project just arrived! Preorders still open on @kickstarter.bsky.social!

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