Month: June 2010

The two-time defending champion Sydney Convicts will try to show again they are the best gay rugby squad when Minneapolis hosts this year’s Bingham Cup international rugby tournament Friday through Sunday. The event is named after Mark Bingham, a rugby player who died on one of the planes hijacked on Sept. 11. Sydney won the […]

One in a series of first-person articles from athletes competing in the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne. By Tedd KonyaToronto This will be my first Gay Games and I will be running in the 5K and 10K road races. I had always heard about the Gay Games, but thought it was like the Olympics and […]

A lesbian softball coach in Memphis, Tenn., says her team was banned from a local church softball league because she is gay. Jana J. Jacobson claims she was questioned about her sexual orientation by administrators at Bellevue Baptist Church. “Finally, in my frustration, I said that I am going to be clear. I am gay, […]

How happy were South Korean soccer fans when their team beat Greece in their World Cup opener? Agence France-Presse reports: Sales of condoms jumped five-fold in South Korea as fans celebrated after the nation’s football players rose to the occasion in their opening World Cup game against Greece. That's one way to celebrate! How happy […]

The sport of soccer has officially come out of the closet, ending decades of speculation. I guess Americans were right all along. Said one analyst: If anything, I think we'll see a firmer commitment to the gayest parts of soccer. Players will feel free now to do their bicycle kicks, juggle the balls with their […]

English soccer goalie Joe Hart is getting some attention from fans after World Cup starter Rob Green blew a save and cost his team a win against the United States. Hart is one of three English goalies in South Africa. But he’s been getting attention from gay and straight-female fans for a while for his […]

This picture of openly gay rugger Gareth Thomas and straight Nick Youngquest may look like just a couple very hot guys with their shirts off. And it is that. But it’s also a statement. Youngquest didn’t have to pose shirtless rubbing bods with Thomas, but he did. And with the flirtatious tweeting between the two […]

People in Ghana go gay after win. It appears that winning its opening World Cup match against Serbia has turned the entire nation of Ghana gay. At least according to the headline writer at Modern Ghana.com. Under the head "Ghana goes gay," we got this: Ghana went into a jamboree yesterday when referee Héctor Baldassi […]

New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez is such a fan of Broadway musicals that he introduced a song from “Memphis” at the Tony Awards on Sunday. “I’ve become a huge fan of musicals since I’ve come to New York,” Sanchez said from the stage at Radio City Music Hall, “and I’ve taken some heat from […]

The last thing I expected to be doing on a June Sunday afternoon was to be on BBC Radio 5 debating the merits of the vuvuzela, the plastic horns that have turned the World Cup into one giant constant annoying buzz. I was invited after I wrote an article expressing hate for the vuvuzela, a […]

Tucked into this Q&A in the New York Times Magazine piece on the home life of soccer’s Freddie Ljungberg, now with the Seattle Sounders, was a question about gossip and this was his response: There’s been a gay rumor for a long time. I don’t mind at all. I am proud of that. I love […]

Openly gay Olympic diving champ Greg Louganis is throwing his support behind Equality California’s ‘Swim For Equality’ in September. To kick off his support, Louganis is the headline guest speaker at a cocktail party next Saturday, June 19. I am so proud to be a part of the inaugural Swim for Equality, an event that […]

Lady Gaga went gonzo at a Mets game the other day, popping the finger to photographers and then making out with a woman (much more interesting than a Mets game). The Mets moved her from her original seats since she was being besieged by paparazzi. This is where Jerry Seinfeld comes in. She was moved […]

I taped and fast-forwarded through the 1-1 South Africa-Mexico match that opened the World Cup in South Africa. And I am already sick of the vuvuzela, the plastic horns that fans blow endlessly. The collective noise sounds like a gigantic swarm of bees and it drowns out everything else going on. ESPN will need to […]

As Kyle Beach was being harassed with anti-gay slurs for reporting sexual assault to the Blackhawks, players got caught on camera doing this.

The NCAA has found that Pete Carroll, Reggie Bush and the USC football program cheated in the early 2000s. Bush apparently got benefits he should not have gotten. And now that Carroll and Bush and virtually everyone else who benefited from it are gone, the NCAA has punched the new players and coaching staff in […]

While South Korea plays Greece in the World Cup on Saturday, the gays in Seoul will be marching the streets in their gay pride festivities. Yep, somehow Korea’s opening match fell while the country’s gays won’t be anywhere near a TV. CNN’s gay Korea correspondent Kyle Burton is picking the parties over the soccer. While […]

It seems Gareth Thomas and Nick Youngquest have a Twitter affair brewing. The two began a banter about Thomas’ profile picture (which is now a shirtless shot, right), and it quickly turned to pubic hair and Youngquest being on all fours. The latest entry came yesterday from Thomas… Not had our naked twister yet,but we […]

Jonathan Toews Patrick Kane scored on a bizarre goal four minutes into overtime to give the Chicago Blackhawks a 4-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers and the team's first Stanley Cup title since 1961. The Blackhawks won the thrilling series, 4-2, in which there were two overtime games. Kane's goal was strange because he seemed […]

Germany’s Lukas Podolski The World Cup starts in two days and most of the world is obsessed with the month-long event. In the U.S. though, interest is not as high. More Americans do follow the World Cup and ratings increase every four years (it's great that every game is now televised), but the game is […]