Wrestler, former football player Akil Patterson gets engaged to a man
Akil Patterson One of Outsports' favorites, Greco Roman wrestler and former University of Maryland football player Akil Patterson, popped...
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Outsports partners with It Gets Better to highlight videos shot by athletes and coaches
Wrestler Akil Patterson with the first video Outsports is excited to announce a new partnership with the It Gets Better Project™....
Openly gay wrestler Akil Patterson profiled by his hometown newspaper
Last year we ran the story of Akil Patterson, the former University of Maryland football player who is now an elite-level Greco-Roman wrestler. Today his hometown paper, the Baltimore Sun, ran a...
27 sports people have already come out in 2011: athletes, journalists, coaches and execs
Updated: May 19, 2011 When Ross Forman of the Windy City Times asked me to come up with a list of all the people in sports who have come out publicly this year, I had no idea the number would...
Four athletes make Advocate's Forty Under 40
The Advocate released their annual Forty Under 40 this week. The list highlights the work of LGBT people under 40 who are making a difference. It was cool to see several people on the list that had...
Greco-Roman wrestler comes out publicly
In October, I profiled AK, a former University of Maryland football player and now an elite-level Greco-Roman wrestler who is gay. At the time, AK did not want his full name used, but that has now...
