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The women’s baseball drama smashes it out the park when it comes to representation. Long may shows like this existMost gay or bi women I know have watched a great deal of very bad TV. That’s not because there isn’t anything out there for us – gone are the days when pretty much the only option was The L Word. But good, non-tokenistic, non-queerbaiting on-screen representation of lesbians is still relatively uncommon, making the recent TV version of A League of Their Own a rare and special thing.Co-created by Abbi Jacobson of Broad City, who also stars, what has been called the “lesbian baseball show” on social media has broadly the same premise as the 1993 film, which is based on the real-life sportswomen who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the second world war. But this version focuses on the voices that were largely left out of the original: the Black women who were barred from playing in the league, and the queer players who secretly went to illegal gay bars together. Continue reading...