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Growing up, Todd Feiler believed he wasn't a "sports person," having faced homophobia in youth sports leagues and gym class.
When he returned to Pittsburgh as an adult, he decided to join a volleyball league through Stonewall Sports, a nonprofit that hosts recreational sports leagues for the LGBTQ+ community, as a way to make friends. He writes about the healing experience of the league in a first-person essay ([link removed]) .
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