Month: November 2012

Calgary Stampeders running back won the Most Outstanding Canadian award in the Canadian Football League as his team prepares for Sunday’s Grey Cup championship game. In attendance was his mom, Margaret, a school teacher turned Anglican priest, now married to a woman. Cornish told the Calgary Herald how he came to learn about his mom […]

With one game remaining on the regular season schedule, Minnesota Golden Gophers wide receiver A.J. Barker has quit the team, sending a lengthy, scathing letter to head coach Jerry Kill that Barker also posted on his tumblr account. In the letter, the walk-on junior, who leads the team in receiving this year, accuses Kill of […]

Christine Daniels was a pioneering trans sports writer for the Los Angeles Times. When she transitioned back to her former self and took her own life, it sent shockwaves through the trans community.

James Nutter Last week we brought you the story of James Nutter, a former college baseball player in Maine who was driven toward a suicide attempt by casual homophobia. How the story came about has an equally powerful message about the impact of coming out. Boston Herald columnist Steve Buckley came out in 2011. I've […]

Orlando Cruz celebrates his Oct. 19 win (Photo: J. Meric / Getty Images) Orlando Cruz, the first openly gay active pro boxer, gives a wonderful interview to Lukas Eberle of the German website Spiegel. One revelation is that boxer Oscar de la Hoya once asked Cruz if he was gay. And I loved Cruz's answer […]

Jack Taylor of Division III Grinnell College in Iowa scored 138 points (not a typo) in leading the Pioneers to a 179-104 win over Faith Baptist Bible College on Tuesday. The number of points broke the record of 113 set in 1954. Taylor, a 5-foot-10, 170-pound sophomore from Black River Falls, Wis., made 27 of […]

Seth Davis, college basketball analyst for CBS and Sports Illustrated, is a dad and has no problem letting his sons watch two guys pummel each other in a boxing match. But he draws the line at mixed martial arts, because it’s two guys pummeling each other in a homoerotic way. Davis tweeted this on Sunday […]

LGBT youth represent as much as 40% of the homeless youth. Often they run away from home because of family rejection and then face rampant discrimination when seeking alternative housing. LGBT homeless youth suffer higher rates of abuse and victimization, and engage in risky behavior at alarming rates – often for survival. New York City’s […]

Akil Patterson is an active member of ECA Equality Coaching Alliance, a relatively new organization that aims to bring together LGBT coaches, has already attracted 103 members according to the group's founder, Roger Brigham. The membership in the organization is about 40% male – 60% female and includes transgender coaches. The coaches range from high […]

The Toronto Marlies, a professional hockey team in the American Hockey League, have taken a pledge from the You Can Play project. The pledge dedicates the team to being inclusive and support everyone “gay or straight.” Several players also appear in a video to compliment the pledge, which will be hung in the locker room […]

Argonaut Joe Eppele Xtra took the field with the Toronto Argonauts at a recent practice and interviewed offensive lineman Joe Eppele and wide receiver Mike Bradwell. Both expressed support for a gay teammate (video below). Eppele told Xtra that he thinks some of the guys on the team would feel awkward around an openly gay […]

Ivan Stuffer is a player in the Italian handball league and he didn’t take too kindly too when opponent Pasquale Maione kissed him on the cheek when they were bumping and jostling on the court this weekend. Stuffer shoved Maione, then walked to the center of the court and pulled his pants down and grabbed […]

Matthew Mitcham Australian diver Matthew Mitcham will be available to chat on Google+ on Monday at 6 p.m. EST. Check it out here. Mitcham will be talking about his new autobiography "Twists and Turns." In the book, as we reported Friday, Mitcham talks about his addiction to crystal meth and how he fought to overcome […]

British teenage diving sensation Tom Daley loves to take his clothes off and he does it again in a new video for charity. Daley is one of several British Olympians and Paralympians who danced to a video of “Do Your Thing” for the charity “Children in Need 2012.” Daley's the only one who shows any […]

Australian Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham was addicted to crystal meth in 2011 that almost derailed his career. He had treated it with rehab, hypnotherapy and help from friends, he writes in his new book, “Twists and Turns,” out Monday. “I certainly was addicted to crystal meth,” Mitcham told [Australia] Nine Network’s 60 Minutes. “I just […]

Seattle Sounder Marc Burch was suspended There's a great column by Caleb Hannan at Grantland about the reasons Major League Soccer is taking on-field homophobia more seriously than the other Big Five sports leagues. While MLS is handing out playoff-game suspensions to their players for calling others "faggots," the other leagues are offering slaps on […]

Former NFL player Wade Davis, who came out publicly on Outsports last spring, has had quite a year. He worked heavily for Barack Obama’s re-election, he has been on a whirlwind speaking tour, and now he’s been named one of The Root’s 100 most influential black Americans. Also on the list are other 25-45-year-olds including […]

Chamique Holdsclaw in 2005 (Photo by: Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images) Atlanta police have issued an arrest warrant for former University of Tennessee basketball star Chamique Holdsclaw following an incident involving a woman who called herself Holdsclaw's ex-girlfriend. Holdsclaw allegedly fired a gun inside a vehicle the woman was driving. The warrant is for charges of […]

Relaunched LGBTQ student-athlete organization is making inroads, building membership and expanding quickly Anna Aagenes My college girlfriend and I were both Division I student-athletes. Although she and I were both smart, strong and determined women, we both struggled with being the only “out” members of our varsity sports teams. According the Campus Pride 2012 LGBTQ […]

Ian Bishop Former Manchester City and West Ham United midfielder Ian Bishop opened up to Manchester Evening News about gay rumors during his playing days. He calls the rumors "ridiculous" and said it may have kept him from playing for his country at the international level. Nothing against gay people. People are free to be […]