Month: January 2011

Gwen Samelson, an artist and business consultant who lives on Whidbey Island north of Seattle, was so enamored to hear about the three openly gay high school athletes who started a blog that she has set up a Facebook page to try and get them on the “Ellen” show. "Brad, Robert and Ben for ELLEN […]

The gay-wrestling icon is tearing down walls while dealing with debilitating health issues By Cyd Zeigler “I think sports are one of the most vital and valuable aspects of our lives and yet in the LGBT ‘community’ sports are largely treated with disdain or indifference, especially in the media. I love opera and cinema and […]

With articles like “Player Stalking: A User’s Guide” and “The Sizzle Query: The Tuesday Torso Trifecta,” the soccer (or “football” for their readers) site Kickette does not concern itself with on-field strategy or player transfers. Instead its mission is hell of a lot more entertaining: “all things fun, fluffy and footie-related. Multi-millionaire football star shenanigans, […]

Ben Cohen and Hudson Taylor, the two strongest straight allies in the fight against homophobia in sports, met in New York this weekend and will work together on their joint passion. Wrote Cohen on his Facebook page: Met Hudson Taylor last night what a great guy. We share the same passion on homophobia in sport […]

The NOH8 Campaign is joining us for Equality Night with the Los Angeles Clippers. The event, on Wednesday, Feb. 2, is the first LGBT night with the NBA team. The first 50 people to arrive at the event’s cocktail reception (starting at 6pm on the City View Terrace at Staples Center) will have their NOH8 […]

At least his heart was in the right place. Barkley talked about the importance of including gay people in the vision or Martin Luther King Jr on TNT yesterday and said he loves gay people (calling them “homosexuality people” at first). Check out the video clip after the jump (Barkley talks at 5:50 in the […]

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 changed. His name is Akil Patterson and he decided to come out publicly since his family and close friends […]

Jets get revenge on Patriots in huge upset. Up next — the Steelers. The Packers look scary, but will have their hands full against the Bears. By Jim BuzinskiOutsports.com How I saw the divisional round of the playoffs, where both top seeds were eliminated. Wow! The Jets’ 28-21 win at New England was a total […]

Carl Lewis is one of the people lending his voice to the remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. this weekend with a column at the Huffington Post. Lewis was my first sports hero; His four-gold performance at the 1984 Olympics captured my imagination and started me off on a wonderful six-year varsity running career. Part […]

This spring, national LGBT rock-climbing group Homo Climbtastic will host its next major climbing trip in Bishop, Calif. The trip from April 14-18 will feature bouldering in some of the West’s most renowned boulder areas plus sport climbing in the incredible route-packed Owens River Gorge. The four-day convention already has an RSVP list over 50 […]

Bloomberg has an article today about the proliferation of gay sports bars, which the publication attributes to an increase in disposable income. In the past few years, almost a dozen sports bars catering to a gay clientele have opened around the country, including Crew in Chicago, Fritz in Boston and GYM Sportsbar in Los Angeles […]

Gay and HIV activist Judith Light stars in Broadway’s new hit play about the legendary NFL coach By Cyd Zeigler What could a play about the roughest, toughest, most legendary coach in NFL history have to do with a gay audience? You might be surprised, but there’s plenty in the current Broadway run of “Lombardi […]

New York Jets defensive back Antonio Cromartie laid into Patriots quarterback Tom Brady this week, calling Brady an “asshole” and answering “fuck him” to a question posted by the New York Daily News. And despite appearing in the “No Hate” campaign, Cromartie said he hates Tom Brady. Shaun Ellis backed up Cromartie's hatred with claims […]

Out lesbian golf coach Katie Brenny has filed a lawsuit against the University of Minnesota claiming she was removed from her coaching position at the university because she is gay. According to Golf Week: “The atmosphere that was created became more and more hostile, to the point where it made it intolerable for me to […]

I know lots of people are tired of hearing about Johnny Weir, but with so few openly gay male athletes out there – and none with the media platform that Weir has – we can’t ignore it when he says something interesting. A couple things came out of his “Today Show” interview yesterday (videos after […]

Ryan Nadeau is a 23-year-old former club swimmer at Boston University. He is straight but his father and his brother are gay and he has many gay friends. So he readily accepted the invitation from wrestler and gay rights activist Hudson Taylor to participate in a NoH8 photo shoot late last year in New Jersey. […]

Someone lamented that we have not posted about the BullCrap Series game last night, so I’m filling the void. I was in annual “boycott the BCS title game” mode so I didn’t watch it. The system is a sham and I wish everyone would realize that we could get a playoff if we all stopped […]

The successful and sometimes controversial novelist Anne Rice offers the following advice to aspiring writers: write the book you want to read and that doesn’t yet exist. Another piece of advice she has: don’t listen to other peoples’ advice. I wasn’t aware of these words of wisdom at the time, but my instincts told me […]

According to some fans, Johnny Weir is again getting screwed by United States Figured Skating. Weir is only the second skater ever to receive the Readers Choice Award (Michelle Kwan Trophy) twice, and he will be given the award at the US Figure Skating National Championship at Jan. 30. However, Weir has been told he […]

The college football season ends tonight with the BCS title game between Oregon and Auburn. My pick is Oregon, 38-30, but one bonus will be to see some good eye candy on both teams. My picks for the hottest on each team are: Cam Newton (Auburn quarterback) and Jeff Maehl (Oregon receiver). Since we are […]