Month: June 2011

The Chicago Cubs have released their 1-minute promised “It Gets Better” video aimed at telling kids that life gets better and telling everyone else that bullying shouldn’t be tolerated. They’re the second MLB team to produce an “It Gets Better” video. They rolled out some heavy hitters for the video: club manager Mike Quade, first […]

David Tyree opposes same-sex marriage in a big way.

Ray Knight, a color analyst for the Washington Nationals and former Major League Baseball player and manager, apologized for using the word “sissy” during a June 5 telecast, the Washington Blade reported. Knight said this when discussing hitters being hit by pitchers who throw inside: “So you don’t go up there playing the game like […]

University of Texas-El Paso college basketball player John Bohannon got himself in trouble when he tweeted: “#letsbereal it is NOT cool to be gay! (Zro voice) *jordan shrug*.” Bohannon was apparently reacting to the public service announcement aired during the NBA playoffs where Grant Hill and Jared Dudley of the Phoenix Suns said it was […]

As the marriage battle heats up in New York, hockey badboy Sean Avery visited state senators in Albany to push them for a vote in favor of marriage equality. He was teamed up with actress Cynthia Nixon for the tour of the state capital. Check out the video after the jump. Hat tip to Towleroad. […]

There are few moments in sports with the excitement of a game 7 in hockey. With hard hits and goals at such a premium, every pass, every check takes on such importance that tension in the arena is hard to match anywhere else. When you add in suspensions, illegal season-ending hits, biting, and six games […]

A gay Nationals Web fan site is claiming the Washington Nationals is the latest MLB team to commit to producing an “It Gets Better” video. The Giants have already made theirs, and the Cubs, Red Sox and Mariners have made commitments to do so. If true, that would make it five MLB teams to make […]

Canadian fans can act as idiotic as fans anywhere and Canucks fan are especially bad losers. From the New York Times: Rioting hockey fans overturned vehicles and set them ablaze, broke store and hotel windows and set several small fires in downtown areas here moments after the Vancouver Canucks lost Game 7 of the Stanley […]

Former New York Giant wide receiver David Tyree has come out vocally against gay marriage, recording a video for anti-equality organization NOM (video after the jump). He talks about how children need fathers (thus two lesbians can’t be parents) and mothers (thus two gay men can’t be parents). His only argument behind his positions is […]

Tisch appears in a video to support same-sex marriage in New York

The DC Gay Flag Football League is publishing a 24-month calendar to help raise money for gay and lesbian youth. The calendar will be available starting in August. The calendar will feature both gay and straight players from the league. DCGFFL has released two It Gets Better videos, one that had straight players talk about […]

With so much attention on gay-sports issues over the last couple months we at Outsports have started looking at everything that came before it. In our humble opinion, not enough people know the rich history of the gay sports movement that started 40 years ago. To help fix that we're compiling a list of the […]

Out former NBA player John Amaechi was awarded the Order of the British Empire by the Queen in her Birthday Honours List. It’s a big deal in Britain, handed out to a select few individuals for their chivalry. Amaechi was given the honor for his work with kids. NBA commissioner David Stern praised the honor: […]

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been strangely silent these NBA playoffs, uncharacteristic for a guy who never hesitates to say what’s on his mind. Cuban left his self-imposed cone of silence after the Mavs won their first NBA title, beating the Miami Heat in six games. On "SportsCenter," Cuban let fly with some profanity […]

The verdict is in on “The Decision”: TKO, Dallas in six. The Dallas Mavericks won their first NBA championship, beating the Miami Heat, 105-95, in Game 6 of the Finals. But outside of Dallas, all most people will focus on is the failure of LeBron James to win a championship the year he bailed from […]

By now most people have heard about Tracy Morgan’s “comedy rant” about how he would kill his son if his voice was too high, among many other horrible anti-gay sentiments. Morgan has since issued a cookie-cutter apology. I found Morgan’s rant a little strange given the role he played in “The Longest Yard,” crushing on […]

New York Giants great Michael Strahan vocally supports same-sex marriage equality.

It’s officially a groundswell. The Seattle Mariners announced today they will produce an ‘It Gets Better’ video encouraging gay youth to hang in there and focus on their positive future. The San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox have produced or plan to produce ‘It Gets Better’ videos. That’s four of the 29 […]

While many are talking today about his alleged ties to Kim Kardashian, New England Patriots safety Bret Lockett is the latest professional athlete to pose in front of Adam Bouska’s camera for the NOH8 campaign (click on photo for full image). A former standout at UCLA, Lockett spent last season on injured reserve after his […]

Downtown Soccer Toronto will host its annual Toronto International Pride Cup June 17-19, with games at L’Amoreaux Park South. This year, eight teams and 110 players have registered. In addition to Toronto, teams will come from Chicago and Philadelphia. There are five open teams and three women's teams. Chicago Blaze Soccer has won the last […]