Month: November 2012

Chris Kluwe from his Twitter feed Being a huge advocate of same-sex marriage and posing shirtless for a gay magazine are not common for pro athletes, but Chris Kluwe of the Minnesota Vikings can lay claim to both. For his passionate support of marriage equality, Kluwe was named by Salon magazine its Sexiest Man of […]

It’s been a good week for lovers of the male butt, with players showing some bare ass (and Bear ass) in NFL locker rooms. Deadspin archived both images, which have since disappeared from their original sources. The latest was Chicago Bears Brandon Marshall, who tweeted a picture of himself getting gear from the University of […]

When Major League Soccer suspended a player three games for using a gay slur, it followed its own policy of zero tolerance towards any sort of discrimination on the pitch. It dovetails quite nicely with the league’s “Don’t Cross the Line” campaign, unveiled this fall (video below). When it comes to discrimination, we don’t cross […]

Locker room language drove closeted baseball player James Nutter to embark on a suicide attempt. Now he wants to help gay athletes find their way out of the closet.

Brendon Ayanbadejo The Baltimore Ravens brutalized the Oakland Raiders on Sunday, 55-20. It was the most points scored in Ravens history. Yet some Raiders still tracked down Baltimore linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo and congratulated him on the same-sex marriage victories at the ballot box last week. From TMZ: Brendon tells us, “Three Raiders congratulated me on […]

Ian Thorpe reiterates that he is not gay, and again asserts he is straight.

Major League Soccer has suspended Seattle Sounder Marc Burch for calling an opponent a gay slur during his team’s game last Thursday. While Burch issued an apology the next day, it wasn’t enough for MLS. Burch said on Friday: I apologize for my horrific choice of words last night during our match. This is something […]

U.S. Olympic swimming gold medalist Ryan Lochte was back in the pool this weekend as he swam in the Minneapolis Grand Prix, his first meet since London; he won both his events. He tweeted: “It was fun racing tonight. it felt like i was back in high school having fun and enjoying the sport. now […]

Megan Rapinoe, left, and teammate Lori Lindsey U.S. women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe was one of the team's stars as it won the gold medal at the London Summer Olympics in thrilling fashion and won a new legion of fans. Her greatest contribution, though, came off the pitch as an openly lesbian athlete. For being […]

MSG Network ad has angered some folks MSG Network built a tongue-in-cheek billboard campaign for their New York Knicks broadcasts this season, but some gay men and Broadway dancers aren't laughing. The particular ad in question, which you can see to the right, compared a certain friendly neighborhood superhero… It's Friday night. You can either […]

Rookie Tampa Bay Bucaneer running back Doug Martin has exploded onto the NFL scene in the last few weeks. His 272 total yards and four touchdowns last week against the Oakland Raiders was probably the best single-game performance by a player at any position this season. In fact, it was one of the greatest single-game […]

Christy Martin (left) in her 2011 comeback match. Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images Christy Martin is an iconic female boxer who became the face of the sport in the 1990s. At 49-6-3 she holds the most professional victories of any female boxer, and her record measures up well against greats like Muhammad Ali and Mike […]

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo has been publicly passionate for years about same-sex marriage, and said that Maryland passing a gay marriage law on Tuesday was “like Christmas.” He also doesn’t care whether his views are popular in the locker room or not, telling David Ginsburg of the Associated Press: ‘‘The majority of the people […]

Bullied football player Kasey Strough More details are emerging about the attack on 16-year-old Iowa football player Kacey Strough that sent him to brain surgery and a medically induced coma. It was six weeks ago that his own teammates threw a football repeatedly at the back of his head. A blood clot apparently formed, creating […]

Croatia’s Supreme Court has ordered Vlatko Markovic, the former head of the country’s soccer federation, to publicly apologize for an anti-gay remark he made in 2010. According to the court order, Markovic cannot make anymore discriminatory comments against gay people, and he must pay for the publication of his apology in the newspaper. When asked […]

In sports terms, same-sex marriage was the Washington Generals of the political world, with our side going 0-32 when the issue was placed before voters over the years. No more. Pro-gay marriage forces won in Maine, Maryland and Minnesota and looked poise to make it a clean sweep with a win in Washington state. Voters […]

Out former NFL player Esera Tuaolo has a message for voters in Minnesota debating the same-sex marriage question: Vote No on 1. He recorded two video messages for Minnesotans United for All Families, which is fighting the question that would ban same-sex marriage in the state constitution. In one message he takes on the Bible, […]

The Royal Dutch Football Association, or KNVB, has released a new campaign to fight homophobia in soccer. The Netherlands governing soccer association has created an 11-point action plan to battle homophobia in their sport. They’ve also created a fun video (watch it below) that says to gay athletes, “Why not step out of the closet? […]

Football player in coma after attack.

Robert Griffin Jr. (Photo: Geoff Burke-US PRESSWIRE) The Washington Redskins lost at home Sunday to the Carolina Panthers, 21-13. In 18 of the previous 19 elections, when the Redskins won their final pre-election home game, the incumbent party won the White House. When the Redskins lost, the incumbent party lost. Translation: This is good news […]