Gay 49er fans

Celebrate 49ers PRIDE! The 49ers are proud to recognize all 49ers fans who identify as LGBTQ+ and Allies. Join our page of LGBTQ & Ally FANS of the San Francisco 49ers! Great page to share pics, stats, posts if you're at a game or watching while while. The 49ers announced Wednesday the unveiling of 49ers PRIDE -- the official Community of 49ers Fans who identify as LGBTQ+ and Allies.

According to the team site, the team will use this platform "to connect with the team, where you can be loud and proud about your Niners pride!". Cisco Mejia is a leader with the 49ers’ Pride Club, the only team-sponsored LGBTQ fan club in the NFL. While there are gay NFL fans everywhere, that’s especially the case in San Francisco, one of the queer cultural capitals of the world. The 49ers launched their PRIDE fan club in , becoming.

What most people outside of that blue collar city may not know is that everyone from Pittsburgh is a sports fan. In the late 70s and 80s I was lucky to be in college and living downtown during the heyday of Pittsburgh championship teams in baseball and football. After I moved to San Francisco in , I still rooted for my hometown teams but quickly got familiar with the Bay Area teams, their players, and coaches.

To have a winning season is one thing more wins than losses ; to make it to any playoff games is what we live for as fans. I apologize to any neighbors who may have heard me yelling at my TV during this close game. The season started September 11 with high hopes as the new starting quarterback Trey Lance took the field.

He was drafted third overall in the NFL draft.

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After his season-ending broken ankle minutes into his second game on September 18, former Niners starting quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo led the team for the next 10 games. Backed by arguably the best defense in the NFL, Garoppolo got the team to a 7—4 record until he injured his foot on December 4. Perhaps that misperception is due to lack of visibility. I enjoy the concepts of healthy competition, personal bests, team spirit, good sportsmanship and sportswomanship.

Sports can grow on you as well at any age. I was never much into basketball until the local Golden State Warriors started winning with their style of play, much like the Harlem Globetrotters. Only diehard fans stick through the losing seasons, but it was easy to become addicted to the winning ways of the Warriors with four NBA Championships in the last eight years.

Newer in the modern era of professional sports is the growing relationship between the LGBTQ community and teams. The Niners were also the first professional sports team to create unisex, team-branded fan merchandise in Some show the games with the volume on, especially during big playoff or championship games. The banter can be fun during a game, and the groups often help one learn more about sports, and share news of unused tickets for free or sale.

During the first two years of the pandemic, it was a godsend to have my most knowledgeable sports friend, Colby Michaels, text back and forth with me during Giants, Warriors, and Niners games while we sat alone in our homes. As an unofficial ambassador for the Niners, he recruited me to join him as one of several diverse LGBTQ fans modeling for the groundbreaking unisex apparel campaign.

What fun, and we got to keep all the cool merchandise! It thrills me immensely that the 49ers organization has taken the lead in becoming the first-ever NFL team to have a dedicated club offering events, merchandise, and other benefits to their LGBTQ fans and allies! I can still remember my grandfather passing time in his rocking chair, listening to Pittsburgh Pirates baseball games on his clunky radio.

My late mother played softball with her siblings and cousins as a teenager and was so good that she batted fourth—the home run hitter—in the lineup! Winner of the Mr. Leather title in , Virginia could probably take home that or a similar honor yet again given his continued dedication to fitness and the LGBTQ community.