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Skip navigation! I'll never forget the first time I sat in a roomful of gay people, not because I finally felt like I was "at home" or "living my authentic self" or anything nearly as heart-warming. I was terrified and, honestly, a bit confused. Since I hadn't told anyone that I was a lesbian yet, we can chalk the terror up to fear that my conservative roommate would figure it out.

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Much like the Navy , as well as all other military branches in general where women are involved , women's sports are really, really gay. The Lesbian Jock— as her name would suggest — loves sports and also loves the ladies. Usually, this trope either takes the form of lesbian characters playing sports, or other people assuming correctly or incorrectly that a female character is a lesbian because she enjoys sports.

There is a golf tournament in town and thousands of women have arrived, but not to watch the sport. Much to the chagrin of the tournament's organiser, the LPGA, and its sponsor Nabisco, this elite event has become a sapphic debauch writ large, as lesbians from all over America converge in the desert for the Dinah Shore Classic. Television personality Dinah Shore, a keen golfer and sports fan whose other claim to fame was a six-year affair with Burt Reynolds , started the tournament in , putting her name and money into the then grossly underfunded LPGA, when female golfers earned a pittance in comparison to the men and were rarely covered on TV. Because Shore was a big Hollywood name, she was able to get friends in the business to give their support, and the event took off as her presence attracted all-important sponsors. She also attracted women, despite not being gay herself, although the lesbian nation likes to claim her as a sister.