Coming Out Stories
Pro Soccer Player Comes Out
Robbie Rogers, 25, a former player on the U.S. national soccer team, Major League Soccer and in the English League Championship, has come out as gay.
The Desperate Consequence Of Casual Words
Mainers are no strangers to overcast skies like the one sitting outside James Nutter’s bedroom window one day last November. The leaves had fallen in Kennebunk. The first snow flurries had...
Gay baseball player at MIT
Sean Karson is the third-baseman for MIT's baseball team. He hit .350 as a sophomore last season and is co-captain of this year's team. A chemistry and computer science major, Karson spent Super...
Wade Davis Comes Out As Gay
It’s still dark in his small Upper East Side apartment when the alarm clock introduces Wade Davis to this Thursday morning in late May. His partner, Steven, sleeps while Davis slips into his...
Fallon Fox Comes Out as Trans Pro MMA Fighter
She talks about gay conversion therapy, her passion for the sport and her post-coming-out fears
Pro Soccer Player Comes Out
Robbie Rogers, 25, a former player on the U.S. national soccer team, Major League Soccer and in the English League Championship, has come out as gay.
The Desperate Consequence Of Casual Words
Mainers are no strangers to overcast skies like the one sitting outside James Nutter’s bedroom window one day last November. The leaves had fallen in Kennebunk. The first snow flurries had...
Gay baseball player at MIT
Sean Karson is the third-baseman for MIT's baseball team. He hit .350 as a sophomore last season and is co-captain of this year's team. A chemistry and computer science major, Karson spent Super...
Wade Davis Comes Out As Gay
It’s still dark in his small Upper East Side apartment when the alarm clock introduces Wade Davis to this Thursday morning in late May. His partner, Steven, sleeps while Davis slips into his...
Minor League Baseball Player Comes Out
John Dillinger did a double-take as he walked through the lobby of the Seaport Marina Hotel in Long Beach, Calif., one night in 2005 after a baseball game. He saw a flier with a “really...
Gay Gymnast Sets Sights On Olympics
The United States has never had a publicly out male gymnast participate in the Olympics. Josh Dixon hopes to be the first. The Stanford grad took a big step toward that goal at the U.S. Men’s...
TCU's Vincent Pryor set school sack record
Growing up, Vincent Pryor fought for years the fact that he was gay. It was especially hard since he was a starter on TCU's football team. But after being true to himself, he felt liberated and set...
Coming out is relief for high school basketballer
Emma Delsohn plays basketball at a Catholic girls school and feared what her coming out would mean. She tells about her journey of self-acceptance and team-acceptance.
Gay High School Volleyball Player Comes Out
Editor's note: At 15, Los Angeles volleyball player Galen Dodd is likely the youngest athlete who has ever told his coming out story for Outsports. He contacted us and had the full backing of his...
Ex-Baseball Owner Comes Out
Friday night was restless for Kevin McClatchy. His identity since his early 20s had been in part defined by the closet he hid in. With Saturday’s approaching dawn, that closet door would be flung...
Texas high school swimmer comes out at graduation
No one knew Mitch Anderson was gay before his speech
Gay pro Ultimate Frisbee player
Seattle Rainmakers defender Elliot Trotter is breaking new ground for Major League Ultimate
Podcast: Unexpected soccer & b'ball trailblazers
Robbie Rogers and Jallen Messersmith continue a parade of athletes coming out publicly
David Testo, Ex-Soccer Player, Is Gay
Moments after professional soccer player David Testo publicly came out of the closet in an interview with Radio-Canada’s Marie Malchelosse, the reporter warned Testo that his revelation would...
Gay College Basketball Player Just One Of The Guys
Jallen Messersmith was raised Mormon, overcame bullying and is openly gay on his Catholic college's basketball team in Kansas. And he goes on more dates than his teammates.
