Month: October 2011

From our friends at Puck Buddys comes a nice little story about Bobby and Jon and their date at a Dallas Stars NHL game. Bobby, 23, is a huge Stars fan and he realized his dating relationship with Jon was going well when he agreed to attend a game. “I was so excited for him […]

As the Federation of Gay Games meets this weekend in Toronto, the hot topic will be the potential merger* of quadrennial events between the Gay Games and Outgames in 2018. While a combination of events is being discussed, no merger of organizations is on the table. Eight years after the Outgames separated from the Gay […]

This summer we presented the 100 most important moments in LGBT sports history. We have encouraged leaders throughout the community to give us their top 10. This list comes from longtime IGLA and Gay Games leader Charlie Carson. It’s impossible to rank certain of the moments over others so I’ve chosen to list them chronologically. […]

Former Oneonta State lacrosse player Andrew McIntosh, whose story Outsports made public in early 2010, is making a difference as a public speaker at schools across the country. He returned to Upstate New York last week and gave a presentation at the University of Albany. Upcoming speaking engagements for the former lacrosse captain will be […]

There are really no words to convey the sadness over another suicide by a gay teenager, this time Jamie Hubley, 15, from Ottawa. He killed himself Saturday, overcome by depression from being bullied and harassed as the only openly gay student at his school. He was picked on because he preferred figure skating to ice […]

Former NBA superstar (and sure-to-be Hall of Famer) Shaquille O’Neal has recoreded a short video (watch after the jump) against bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth. Shaq looks like he’s put on a couple pounds since retirement, but he also speaks with more inflection than usual; Somebody’s doing good work with him on […]

Editor's Note: Greg Congdon was a high school football player and wrestler in rural Pennsylvania. He struggled with his sexual orientation for years until he was outed. It was such a touchstone in 1998 that it is our #83 most important moment in gay sports history. For the first time ever, Greg tells his story […]

We have featured Brenner Green before, a college runner in Connecticut who did a great It Gets Better video and also wrote about his coming out experiences. He has a great idea for his senior honors thesis and needs the help of other athletes. I’ll let him explain: Hi, my name is Brenner Green and […]

The World Series starts Wednesday with a matchup few expected — the Texas Rangers vs. the St. Louis Cardinals. I can’t say this is one to excite the senses. I will be rooting for the Rangers, the first World Series loser to make it back since the 1992 Braves. I can't stand baseball allowing wild […]

Read more from Pat Griffin on her blog. Last spring just after GLSEN launched Changing the Game, our new sports project, I got an email from Edward Tylicki from Nike. Edward is a member of Nike’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Friends Employee Network. Edward sought me out as director for the Sports Project because […]

By Ben Baldus-Strauss and Evan Heiter, with Cyd Zeigler Evan Heiter (left) and Ben Baldus-Strauss Editor’s Note: Ben and Evan were teammates on the 2010 men’s gymnastics national championship team at the University of Michigan. At the time, Evan was out on the team and had been for a while; Ben was in the closet […]

Our latest video in Outsports’ partnership with the It Gets Better Project comes from Vincent Pryor, who was out to his teammates while playing defensive end for TCU in 1994. We chronicled his amazing story about how he set a school single-game sack record the week after coming out to his team. “When you’re closeted […]

Hot player of the week The 49ers beat the Lions, but the big story is the coaches acting like bitches after; Saints coach breaks leg; Cowboys wimp out against Pats; MVP pick; hot player of the week. How I saw Week 6 of the NFL: The coach of the year so far this season is […]

My latest piece picked up by the Huffington Post is a column about why Rick Welts’ hiring by the Golden State Warriors is the most important gay sports moment this year: While people focus on the travails of athletes, the real power brokers in sports are the guys Welts works with every day. And they've […]

A male high school cheerleader in Alice, Texas, says he was kicked off his cheerleading team because he was “caught” kissing another boy on a surveillance video. See the video interview with the boy after the jump. From NBC: Student handbook prohibits discrimination Alice High School, a public school in South Texas, states in its […]

While many people know about the four-part Washington Post series in 1975 in which David Kopay came out of the closet, few have read the text or know about the other three parts. So I was excited to stumble across the December 10, 1975, Part 1 of the series on Google this morning. What a […]

#1 on The List: Lassi Karonen of Sweden In 2008, American rower Megan Kalmoe put up a list of her 20 hottest male rowers and it has become so popular it is now called simply "The List" and rowers lobby to get on it (video montage of the 20 below). Kalmoe told the Toronto Star: […]

The Harvard wrestling team showed their endorsement of National Coming Out Day on Tuesday, gathering with rainbow pins and fun T-shirts to support gay athletes and students. One of the T-shirts worn by a wrestler summed it up perfectly: “Some dudes marry dudes. Get over it.” From the Harvard Crimson: Before their Tuesday afternoon practice, […]

Aaron Hicklin has a great piece on out Swedish soccer player Anton Hysen, who came out earlier this year. He talks about how he finds American men super hot, coming out to his mom (who already knew), and the dangers of online dating… Like most celebrities, Hysén has had to come out twice. The first […]

Sean Chapin, the San Francisco resident who helped get the baseball Giants to make an It Gets Better video in June, has now started a petition to get the 49ers to become the first NFL team to do the same. Chapin has garnered 6,068 signatures on an online petition asking the team to lend its […]