A federal judge ruled against three men who filed a lawsuit claiming a softball organization disqualified them from playing in a tournament because they weren’t gay enough.
The lawsuit was filed last year contesting the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance rule that limits the number of heterosexual players on each team. The rule states that each team may not have more than two non-gay players on their roster.
The NAGAAA runs the annual Gay Softball World Series, and the men filed suit after their team’s second-place finish in the 2008 tournament was nullified because they are bisexual, not gay.
U.S. District Judge John Coughenour said that the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance has a First Amendment right to limit the number of heterosexual players, much as the Boy Scouts have a constitutional right to exclude gays.
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