Year: 2011

We have been writing for two years about NFL linebacker Scott Fujita and his strong stand for gay rights. His views first became known when he was a member of the 2009 New Orleans Saints, who won the Super Bowl. Now with the Cleveland Browns — and on injured reserve –Fujita has continued his advocacy. […]

The Onion nails it again as only they can… Hat tip to Chris Rico. The Onion nails it again as only they can… Hat tip to Chris Rico.

Tennis legend Margaret Court, winner of seven straight Australian Opens and a record 24 Grand Slam titles, is urging Australians to fight against the push for gay marriage in her country. Now a senior pastor in Perth’s Victory Life Church, had a littany of thoughts on the subject for The West Australian: No amount of […]

LSU defensive star and Heisman Trophy finalist Tyrann “Honey Badger” Mathieu is learning not to get into a spat with ex-girlfriends/hookups. Spurned these days means sending out penis pictures of the offender on the Internet. Media Takeout has the pics, which are allegedly of Mathieu's private parts. Since the photos are headless, they could be […]

Gay Baby is a fantastic short film that made the film festival rounds over the summer. It’s about a straight couple who finds out their baby is going to be a gay boy, crushing the dad’s hopes of having a Major League Baseball pitcher in the family. When they go shopping for their new gay […]

While most schools are spending wine-and-dine money on flashy Heisman campaigns for their top candidates, Stanford coach David Shaw did what any self-respecting Stanford grad would do for his quarterback: He created a PowerPoint deck that he presented at a recent press conference. Unfortunately, the video after the jump only has Shaw's presenting of the […]

There is a full-on kiss between two soccer players on the pitch, but this one takes place in the popular soccer video game “FIFA 12.” From Kotaku: Some might call this a fluke, a twist of fate—a coincidence. Striker Andy Carroll makes his way down the pitch, tries to score a goal and ends up […]

Former Purdue swimmer Andrew Langenfeld is at the World LGBTQ Youth Leaders Summit in Tel Aviv this week. He’s representing the Federation of Gay Games and LGBT sport in general; Langenfeld is an advisory board member of Our Group and GLSEN’s Changing The Game. You can check out his progress on the Gay Games' blog, […]

Von Wafer, a career journeyman in the NBA who played with the Boston Celtics last year and currently plays in Italy, says he’s not gay and blames a hacker on Twitter for sending out a tweet that says he was. Wafer wrote this on Twitter after his agent said his account was hacked: i cant […]

Major college football is the most unsatisfying of our sports, the only one where computers and voters determine who gets to play for the “national title.” This is how Nos. 2 and 3 finished in the BCS rankings this year: Alabama, 9419, Oklahoma State .9333, the closest ever between two and three. And thus, because […]

Hot player of the week How I saw Week 13 of the NFL: How bout dem Cowboys? Leave it to the Cowboys to lose a game like no one else ever has, by icing their own kicker. It was both lovely and bizarre to watch and was the most important result on Sunday. Dallas kicker […]

Madonna will be the halftime performer at Super Bowl XLVI, the NFL announced during during the Lions-Saints Sunday Night Football game tonight. It will be the material girl’s first Super Bowl appearance. The NFL said her performance will be “imagined” by Cirque du Soleil. Team up Madge with Cirque and you’re sure to get LOTS […]

Yet another example how European soccer is one of the most homophobic corners of the sports world. Italian Players Union president Damiano Tommasi demonstrated an incredibly shallow understanding and compassion for living as a gay person when he said in an interview that gay athletes should stay in the closet, and that there is no […]

Our good friends at Puckbuddys are celebrating their gay NHL blog’s one-year anniversary with the first-ever gay night with the Washington Capitals. Co-hosted by Team DC, the event this Saturday, Dec. 3, against the Ottawa Senators. The block is sold out, but you can try to snag some tickets from Ticketmaster or Team DC. Congratulations […]

Towleroad has tracked down several rumors floating around that openly gay Swedish soccer player Anton Hysen is coming to Major League Soccer, and it could happen as early as today. From Hysen’s site: hey everybody ! I hope everyone is doing good tonight/today wherever you are. I just got back from my friends place. We […]

Sexual hazing at Andover.

Now that the swimming federation FINA has banned full-body swimsuits as the equivalent of fashion doping, Speedo has unveiled its newest suit that promises faster times. And, as a bonus, will show us more of the swimmer’s body. The Fastskin3 suit, unveiled today in London, site of the 2012 Olympics, combines a suit, a cap […]

I guess we should have seen this coming. Take a celebrity break-up, toss in a big-mouth bitchy diva, mix in a hot, metrosexual 20-something and voila! We have a Star magazine gay rumor. This time they have Kim Kardashian labeling her soon-to-be-ex-husband, NBA player Kris Humphries, gay. The tell-tale signs? He dresses well…he gets his […]

It seems Mystic Valley Regional Charter School in Malden, Mass., recently hired a new English teacher and crew coach named Kevin Hogan. The local Fox affiliate got a tip that that new teacher also happened to appear in porn. Gay porn. With the terrible porn name of Hytch Cawke. The school has put Hogan on […]

Editor’s note: A month ago, we ran the first-person coming out story by high school volleyball player Galen Dodd. His father, Ian, wrote us a week later and then gave us permission to reprint his letter. We seldom hear from parents about how their child’s coming out affected them and thought Ian Dodd’s letter would […]