A majority of athletic trainers at NCAA college and universities hold a positive view of of gay and lesbian student-athletes, a first-of-its-kind survey has found. Trainers also dealt with a much higher percentage of lesbian athletes than gay athletes. The conclusion of the survey of 964 heterosexual athletic trainers, published in the current issue of […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 8, 2011Marty Brennaman, Cincinnati Reds broadcaster, uses a homophobic attack to go after a softball supporter
By Jim Buzinski | February 8, 2011Olympic rowers and (so they claim) Facebook kinda sorta creators the Winklevoss twins (now of The Social Network fame) are featured in a three-part video series on The Daily. And wow, do they come off as a couple whining bitches. They got $65 million from Mark Zuckerberg, their dad is worth hundreds of millions of […]
By Cyd Zeigler | February 8, 2011Sorry it’s taken a few days to get up some pictures from the Equality Night with the Clippers last Wednesday. The event was attended by over 300 people with many more buying tickets throughout the arena. I think the loudest cheers of the night came from the gay-ish sections when Esera Tuaolo sang the national […]
By Cyd Zeigler | February 7, 2011Super Bowl MVP Aaron Rodgers The Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-25, to win the Super Bowl. I wrote a recap of the contest, along with presenting my hot players of the game. I also briefly mention the commercials, which were as uninteresting as usual. But the one by Groupon that made light […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 7, 2011Packers jump out early and hang on to beat Steelers, 31-25, in the Super Bowl. Aaron Rodgers is on, Ben Roethlisberger is off; hot players and butts; bad play calling and an offensive commercial. By Jim BuzinskiOutsports.com How I saw Super Bowl XLV: The Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-25. My pregame pick […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 6, 2011With all the insanity of Super Bowl media day, it seems at least one reporter had gay on the brain. While I can’t figure out who it was, a media day attendee from Dallas’ 105.3FM The Fan asked some sexually charged questions. From Time: But in a new media day low, a reporter from Dallas-area […]
By Cyd Zeigler | February 4, 2011Hudson Taylor is being honored by the Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays with its Straight for Equality award, given to an ally of gay rights. Taylor, a former collegiate wrestler and now wrestling coach whom we written about many times for his amazing work, has most recently founded Athlete Ally. In its first […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 4, 2011Sean Avery of the New York Rangers is one of the more contentious players in the National Hockey League (“despised” would be a better word for many), but he made the most forceful gay-positive comments I have ever heard from a pro athlete in an interview with the Toronto Sun. “If there’s a kid in […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 4, 2011If you know your football, you can win a copy of a two-CD resissue of George Michael’s 1987 album “Faith.” Outsports has 10 copies of the "Faith" reissue to give away as part of a Super Bowl contest. To win, just pick the winner of the game between the Packers and Steelers and come closest […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 4, 2011Cycling champion Graeme Obree, 45, has revealed he is gay and told the Scottish Sun he even pondered suicide because of his sexuality. "I was brought up by a war generation; they grew up when gay people were put in jail. Being homosexual was so unthinkable that you just wouldn't be gay. I'd no inkling […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 3, 2011Philadelphia Eagles players DeSean Jackson, Todd Herremans and Jamaal Jackson made a surprise visit on “The View” today to show their support for Nadin Khoury, a 13-year-old student set upon last month by seven teenagers who beat him and hung him from a tree while one of them videotaped it. Khoury said he was beaten […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 3, 2011Tonight Outsports co-hosts the first Equality Night with the Los Angeles Clippers, along with Equality California and the Clippers themselves. Amazingly, the event is sold out and has been for a week. When we scheduled the event back inNovember we targeted the game against Chicago because we figured the Bulls would be good this year, […]
By Cyd Zeigler | February 2, 2011It’s Super Bowl week and there’s not a whole lot of on-the-field news to report since the teams haven’t played in 10 days. So let’s talk about hair, long beautiful hair, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen. This might be the hairiest Super Bowl in history. The Pittsburgh Steelers have two major attractions — safety Troy […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 2, 2011Call this Homophobia in European Sports, Part 742. This time it’s the president of the Greek basketball team Iraklis Thessaloniki B.C. apologizing for a loss by his team by calling their play a “queer game.” Some media outlets are claiming the coach forced the players to remove their jerseys after the game, but a more […]
By Cyd Zeigler | February 1, 2011Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas, whose powerful coming out story has inspired gays and lesbians worldwide, has started a foundation to help young people via grants, mentoring and networking. The goal of the Gareth Thomas Foundation: To allow young people and those from marginalized groups to fulfill their potential, addressing the challenges of diversity and […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 1, 2011U.S. Masters Swimming has apologized for running a homophobic letter to the editor in its magazine in response to a profile of an openly gay swimmer. The apology came after pressure from gay swimmers, many of them affiliated with International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics. One group, though, was way out of line by threatening the […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 1, 2011