Month: June 2010

Since the day the First World Outgames were announced, there has been a segment of the gay community that sought first and foremost to destroy the Outgames. The latest installment is a press release from Team San Francisco publicly refusing to support the Outgames or athletes attending the event in 2013. From Team San Francisco’s […]

Editor’s note: This article first appeared more than two years ago, but with the World Cup a week away, it seems appropriate to reprint it. It consistently gets passionate (and often over-the-top or jingoistic) comments. Weighing in on the tired debate over why Americans fail to love soccer as passionately as the rest of the […]

Most people expected the Los Angeles Lakers to be in the NBA Finals, but few thought the “aging,” “tired”, “banged-up” Boston Celtics would be their opponent. And after knocking off the top two seeds in the Eastern Conference, the men in green are underdogs again to win their series. You’re currently getting 5/2 odds for […]

Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga was chasing a perfect game Wednesday. He had retired the first 26 Cleveland Indians he had faced, and the 27th batter, Jason Donald, hit a ball down the first base line. Miguel Cabrera, fielded it and tossed to Galarraga, whose touched the bag first. Perfect game? Nope. “Safe,” yelled umpire […]

One in a series of first-person accounts of athletes attending the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne, July 31-Aug. 7. We invite anyone to send their story, along with a photo to: [email protected]. By David Cisneros I am 23 years old and live in San Francisco. I play soccer and will be traveling to Cologne to […]

Four athletes made this year’s AfterElton Hot 100. Ben Cohen (77), David Beckham (49) and Matthew Mitcham (16) all return for the second straight year, though they all dropped in ranking; And this year recently out Gareth Thomas (55) joins the group. It’s one more than last year. Athletes are unquestionably underrepresented on this list. […]

Despite all the work to open minds that John Amaechi has done in front of the camera and behind the scenes, some people in the gay community had turned a little sour on him because of a perception that he was being too dour in his assessment of homophobia in sports. A couple recent media […]

Jason Akermanis has been demoted to a lower league by his Aussie Rules Football League team for two weeks for saying in a newspaper column two weeks ago that gay athletes should stay in the closet. In addition, he is stepping away from his media work for the next three weeks to reconsider his commitment […]

Novak Djokovic certainly has a great sense of humor. In his latest video he puts on a blonde wig and lip syncs to Shakira’s Gypsy as his his shirtless doubles partner, Viktor Troicki, strums a ukelele. Djokovic gets hot and bothered, rubbing Troicki’s bare chest and getting a little spanking from his doubles partner. You […]