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On That Gay Flex Again

On That Gay Flex Again

FromThe Body Serve


On That Gay Flex Again

FromThe Body Serve

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Length:
68 minutes
Released:
Jun 22, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

As tennis transitions to grass, we're scrambling to catch up on the post-Roland Garros results, beefs, surprises, and clunky, poorly conceived solutions to ongoing problems. Barty is steps away from the no. 1 ranking, Berrettini eases onto the turf, Felix's rise continues unabated. Since it's Pride Month, we're giving a mini-reprise of last year's Pride episode: looking at the difference between genuine allyship and tokenism, how capital subsumes real LGBTQ issues, and what Taylor Swift has to do with it.
 
2:00 ATP retroactively counting Laver Cup matches in head-to-heads ... huh?
5:50 A thought experiment on alternative ranking systems
16:00 A propos of nothing, the US Open says they want to allow coaching during matches, delighting Patrick Mouratoglous everywhere
24:45 Grass results: Garcia wins, Vekic gets frustrated, Berrettini & Felix take to the grass 
31:30 More grass: Venus charms in Birmingham, Barty eases into the grass season, Sir Andrew Murray returns!
36:35 WTA finally acknowledges its LGBTQ fans
42:30 Marco Trungelliti blows the whistle on match fixing, gets trashed by fellw players
46:00 What Jonathan is mad about: Sania Mirza getting blamed for the Pakistani cricket team's loss
51:20 Discussion: how to feel about the proliferation of corporate Pride branding? What is for-profit queerness? Do we risk straight people co-opting and blunting the force of queer politics? You know, really laidback stuff like that.
Released:
Jun 22, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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Tennis podcast featuring casual, semi-respectable conversations about the ATP & WTA.