Equality Coaching Alliance hits 100 members
Akil Patterson is an active member of ECA Equality Coaching Alliance, a relatively new organization that aims to bring together LGBT...
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Roger Brigham gives insights into the failed Gay Games and Outgames events merger
Roger Brigham When the Federation of Gay Games (FGG) and Gay and Lesbian International Sports Association (GLISA) recently announced that they had ended...
Nebraska: Fire Football Coach Ron Brown
Athlete Ally launches petition targeting anti-gay coach
Olympics' Women In Sport conference virtually ignores lesbian issues
The Federation of Gay Games had a couple members at the International Olympic Committee's Women in Sport conference last month. All of them reported on a strange lack of discussion about lesbian...
Moment #52: Roger Brigham comes out to his managing editor
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Sports reporting, 1982. When Anchorage Daily News sports editor Roger Brigham walked into his managing editor's...
New gay coaching alliance forms
We got this in today from Roger Brigham, a high school wrestling coach, Gay Games advocate and longtime sportswriter. We couldn't think of a more perfect person to launch the project advocating...
High school wrestler Jaime Loo comes out
Last month we brought you the story of gay-sports pioneer Roger Brigham, a sports journalist, wrestler and wrestling coach. In that story Roger talked about one young man he felt particularly proud...
Gay sports pioneers series: Roger Brigham
Traveling in Germany with Dave Kopay it struck me how few young gay athletes today realize who he is and the impact he has had on our culture. After I returned from the Gay Games I thought about...
