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'Jumpers for Goalposts' is a tender, offbeat take on the locker room play by Nelson Pressley

How gently can you make a joke about a largely gay soccer team called Barely Athletic struggling to beat a squad of transgender players in heels? This kind of thing comes across as sweet and feather-light in the way that English writer Tom Wells handles it in "Jumpers for Goalposts." Barely Athletic is a band of outsiders and underdogs, notwithstanding the mouthy lesbian coach, and there's a bashfulness to this tende…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:56PM on May 18, 2015

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