Month: September 2009

Editor’s note: Mark Ertel will be writing daily updates from the Gay Softball World Series this week. With over 4,000 participants and fans from 37 leagues in North America, NAGAAA's Gay Softball World Series is the world's largest annual GLBT sporting event. Monday night was filled with fun, and Tuesday was filled with softball!! The […]

Editor's note: Mark Ertel will be writing daily updates from the Gay Softball World Series this week. We are so thrilled to be here in Milwaukee, this beer chugging town has a rich gay softball history. In 1977, four teams arranged "pick-up" games to play softball during summertime. Each week these teams would compete against […]

Johnny Weir on ice. Photo by Leah Adams I was honored to talk earlier this week with Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir. I was a fan of him before, and that interest grew exponentially after talking with him for a half hour. Some divas are phonies, projecting an image that is not themselves; Johnny is […]

Whatever your opinion is of Buffalo Bills receiver Terrell Owens, there is no denying his amazingly sculpted body (he says he has 6% body fat at 220 pounds). A lot of it is great genetics, plus the time as a pro athlete to devote to working out (and the money to hire personal chefs for […]

Editor's note: Mark Ertel will be writing daily updates from the Gay Softball World Series this week. Milwaukee is playing host to the largest gay softball event in the country this week: the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance World Series. Softball teams from all across America and Canada have invaded the Midwest city to […]

A member of the Seattle Stonewall gay soccer club. It is still not that common when a mainstream columnist tackles head on homophobia in sports. So it was refreshing to read a strong piece by John Leicester, AP's international sports columnist, where he decried the treatment of gays in soccer. He used as his jumping […]