Month: July 2011

In recognition of the team’s Equality Night on July 23, Chivas USA players Justin Braun and Michael Lahoud are the first professional teammates to appear in the NOH8 campaign together. They join teammate and goalie Dan Kennedy in publicly opposing homophobia. Chivas USA is one of two Major League Soccer teams based in Los Angeles. […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in LGBT sports history. Boxing, 1993. Savoy Howe shot into the sports world out of a cannon. She first stepped foot in a boxing ring in 1992; A year later she was fighting in Toronto’s first-ever sanctioned women’s boxing event. And in 1993 she agreed […]

Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson is the latest pro athlete to drop the F-bomb. He appeared on a cooky radio show on Eminem’s Sirius XM channel and snapped back at a caller saying he’s a “gay-ass faggot” (listen to the audio after the jump). I listen to Sirius XM all the time, and Howard […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Mountain Bike Racing, 1995. She was one of the first female stars of her sport. Originally she took to biking to improve her skiing; She was already a Junior National Champion skier in 1990 and was looking to reach the next […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Tennis, 1993. While she came out of the closet a decade earlier, it was 1993 that a marriage between the tennis legend and the gay community was finally consummated. Throughout 1992 Martina had spoken at length against Colorado’s Amendment 2, which […]

Green Bay Packer superstar Clay Matthews will serve as the honorary chair of AIDS Walk Wisconsin. The event is Oct. 1. Matthews released a lengthy statement on passion for the cause and his role with the event: I’m proud to take a stand and fight back against the AIDS epidemic. There are too many lives […]

Illinois lineman Chris Jones has been arrested for aggravated assault stemming from an incident last weekend, and some say it was an anti-gay hate crime. Illinois head coach Ron Zook has suspended Jones indefinitely for the incident. Jones has been charged with aggravated assault and not a hate crime because the former carriers a heavier […]

With Novak Djokovic’s explosion to the top of the world tennis rankings I went back to an interview I did with Martina Navratilova. In 2007 I asked Martina whom she would want to coach if she could coach any tennis player in the world: It would have been Novak Djokovic, but he’s in good hands […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Various sports, 1997. With the subtitle, ‘True stories of America’s gay male athletes,’ Dan Woog’s book ‘Jocks’ opened eyes in 1997. This wasn’t one athlete’s story about being gay: This was over two dozen male athletes talking about being gay in […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Softball, 2004. When Andrea Zimbardi, an SEC honor roll student and a senior captain on the team, was kicked off of the University of Florida softball team in the midst of their march to the NCAA tournament, Zimbardi suspected it was […]

In 2011, Outsports listed 100 important moments in LGBT sports history.

While many complain about the doldrums of summer sports that have set in (especially now that Wimbledon is behind us), we are in the midst of a major worldwide sporting event: the women’s World Cup in Germany. But on the front page of ESPN.com, the only mention is a question for their Streak for the […]

Lori and Jeff Wilfahrt wondered: Had their boy died protecting homophobes who would deny him his rights back home?

The Boston Red Sox are now the third MLB team to release an ‘It Gets Better‘ video. And this one’s the best of them all. It features manager Terry Francona (right) and star players Kevin Youkilis and Jason Varitek. It also includes various members of the LGBT community. It’s the first video I’ve felt speaks […]