Month: December 2012

Brian Sims Buzzfeed is notorious for page-view grabbing lists of the "20 best this" or "30 top that," and their latest is a good one — the "15 Hottest Politicians From Around the World." Making their cut is Brian Sims, the openly gay former college football captain and now new state rep in Pennsylvania. "Slow […]

ESPN 980 has suspended radio hosts Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin for their heinous attack on Gabrielle Ludwig and other transgender athletes on their Dec. 6 show. The station has released this statement: We strongly believe two of our employees crossed the line when discussing a tanssexual person on their program last Thursday. Such intolerance […]

ESPN spokesperson Josh Krulewitz has released a statement to Outsports regarding the anti-transgender comments made by ESPN 980 radio hosts Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin: “The two are not employees of ESPN and made the comments on an affiliated radio station that controls its own local content. The offensive commentary goes completely against ESPN’s company […]

A gay professional hockey player in Europe has written a lengthy piece about his life and career for the hockey blog Puckbuddys. While he doesn’t reveal his true identity, he talks about the ups and downs of his career and living life in the closet. None of his teammates in Europe know he’s gay, but […]

Brendon Ayanbadejo is well-known to Outsports readers for his strong advocacy of gay rights. The Baltimore Ravens linebacker has been a vocal supporters of gay marriage for years and was part of the successful campaign for marriage equality this November in Maryland. His stance is now getting a wider audience, thanks to Sports Illustrated. In […]

Update Dec. 11: Hosts suspended by station, ESPN distances themselves from comments Last Thursday, 980AM ESPN Radio in Washington DC featured one of the nastiest, most anti-transgender rants I've ever heard. Along with their guest, they lashed out at trans college basketball player Gabrielle Ludwig. Among their horrific comments: They said transgender people should not […]

Two of the co-founders of War Room Sports, Jimmy Williams and Devin McMillan, joined our latest Outsports Podcast to talk about the intersections of race, religion and sexual orientation. Their insights were fascinating. When the conversation turned to the Bible as the root of perceived homophobia among black men, the guys personally rejected the notion: […]

Eli Manning (Photo: Evan Habeeb-USA TODAY Sports) Last week I wrote about the curious phenomenon of NFL players not wearing cups despite the violence of the game. Sam Borden of the New York Times spent the week asking New York Giants players why no one wears a cup and he got this interesting take from […]

Jeff Buttle is a natural on skates, winning the world figure skating title in 2005 and the Olympic bronze medal in 2006. He still skates in exhibitions and has found a new ice outlet as a member of the Toronto Gay Hockey Association. The Hockey News has a great feature on Buttle’s newfound sport. Openly […]

Arian Foster (Photo: Mike Carter-USA TODAY Sports) Houston Texans running back Arian Foster says it won't be long before there is an openly gay NFL player and he would be fine with it. Foster, one of the key reasons the Texans have a legitimate Super Bowl chance this season, was a guest on this week's […]

Dave Kopay, the first NFL player to come out publicly as gay, is featured in the latest Buick Human Highlight Reel, which shows sports people who have made a difference. A one-minute spot was aired Saturday on ESPN and the full three-minute version is below. The spot was filmed in Kopay's home in the Eagle […]

Scorpio Sky, the low-level professional wrestler who tweeted a gay slur and attacked the people who didn’t like it, might be learning a lesson about how to treat other people. Mr. Sky, whose real name is Schuyler Andrews, hasn’t tweeted in almost a week since the incident, and at least two wrestling groups are distancing […]

Gabrielle Ludwig (center) and her Mission College team Gabrielle Ludwig could become "the most dangerous" women's college basketball player in California, according to Mission College basketball coach Corey Cafferata. The coach feels confident because, despite being 50 years old and a veteran of Desert Storm, Ludwig is 6-foot-8. She's also transgender, having completed her transition […]

Goodell has always embraced the gay community thanks in part to his brother.

Swedish soccer team Sörskogens IF has suspended their entire team for anti-gay slurs and language directed at their opponents, the Stockholm Snipers, earlier this year. From The Local, which has a full account of the incident: During the match, players from Sörskogens were heard saying “you suck cock for 50 kronor”, “all of you have […]

GQ has named NFL Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe and Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo ‘Honorary gays of the year‘ for making the NFL “this year’s surprise hothouse of social liberalism.” But it wasn’t just these two doing it, the shift also came from Connor Barwin, Robert Griffin III, Trent Richardson, and many other current […]

Joey Barton In a really weird and offensive column, Martin Samuel of the London Daily Mail says that Joey Barton of the English Premier League (on loan to a French league) should come out as gay. For some reason I don't fathom. Even though Barton is straight and married. As I said, it's a weird […]

Shooty Babitt says an out athlete would be 'a detriment to the team'

Jessica Adair (Photo: Jennifer Stewart-USA TODAY Sports) Amber Harris and Jessica Adair play pro basketball for the Minnesota Lynx. Both are also openly lesbian and both are African American. “You got two strikes against you — you’re Black and you’re gay,” says Adair in an interview with Charles Hallman in the Black and female-owned Minnesota […]

Jordan Vega I always enjoy seeing videos for the It Gets Better Project that include athletes, even more so if they feature young athletes. Videos that include people in the target range of the It Gets Better audience have an immediacy often lacking from those made by older LGBT people. Three athletes from Whittier College […]