Month: July 2012

He talked with teammates about the issue after Wade Davis came out

After the Freeh Report showed failures by Penn State to effectively stop a known pedophile, putting their football program ahead of the welfare of children, the NCAA has left that football program a shadow of its former self. The NCAA handed down a litany of punishments that include: After the Freeh Report showed failures by […]

Chicago Fire’s Gonzalo Segares Major League Soccer announced Friday it will end its relationship with the Boy Scouts of America at the end of this season. The two groups announced a partnership on Jan. 12 of this year. The statement by Major League Soccer was just one sentence: Major League Soccer’s agreement with the Boy […]

Jackie and Doug Christie at gay club Eleven Doug Christie married his wife, Jackie Christie, 17 years ago. Every year they have celebrated their anniversary with a wedding to renew their vows. This year, they chose to do so at Eleven, a gay bar in West Hollywood, at the unveiling of their NOH8 photo. The […]

For the next two weeks we’re running a daily series of our conversations on the red carpet at the ESPYs. This is the fifth in the series. Seattle Seahawks running back Michael Robinson is no stranger to gay people. Having played for the San Francisco 49ers for four years, he said he received fan letters…about […]

While some LGBT activists are calling for the International Olympic Committee to ban countries that discriminate against its citizens based on sexual orientation, don’t count me among them. An Olympic ban would affect no policy change and would only serve to hurt the athletes, some of whom are gay, who have trained so hard for […]

A West Virginia rock climbing and outdoor gear shop has created a Gay Gay Gay promo video to welcome the folks at HomoClimbtastic to their 2012 Convention starting July 26. What’s even crazier is that Water Stone Outdoors got almost a dozen local guys with smokin’ hot bodies to strip to their speedos for the […]

Kurt Warner is an inclusive Christian and a voice of the NFL.

ESPN radio host Jared Max, who came out of the closet last year, talked at length with Out magazine about his new publicly out life. One of the pieces that struck me was Max’s repeating of the same story we hear over and over and over and over again in sports: How easy it was […]

Anastasia Ashley told Outsports she loves the gays.

Lolo Jones, track Following up on my list of the 30 best male bodies in the Olympics, we bring you the 20 best female bodies. Not being — to the best of my knowledge — a straight guy or a lesbian, I felt out of my depth. So I turned to the terrific Lucy Hallowell […]

Matthew Mitcham (Photo: Chris Hyde/Getty Images) Story updated.The number of openly gay and lesbian athletes at the 2012 London Summer Olympics is ahead of the totals for Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008, with all but three being lesbians. There are 23 openly gay and lesbian London Olympians, plus two coaches. There are also […]

What I love most about Steve Buckley is that he does his job. The Boston Herald sports columnist came out of the closet publicly last year. While he’s happy to appear at Boston gay softball events, or do the occasional media appearance talking about LGBT issues in sports, his focus has continued to be the […]

Last week, WWE Hall of Fame wrestler Shawn Michaels tweeted a biting response to a fan who asked him a question about his hairline. While the tweet has since been removed from Michaels’ Twitter feed, Wrestling News Source reported it as: Another Dude obsessed w/my hair #homo On Sunday, Michaels tweeted this "apology": Last week, […]

Yes, you read that headline right. John Rocker, who in 1999 became the poster child for homophobic athletes, told Politico that he doesn’t have the right to oppose same-sex marriage: Am I someone that thinks that I have the right to sit back and judge someone that I don’t know, will never meet, on how […]

Jayden Hadler, swimming The Olympics are the best sports showcase for the beauty of the human body, male and female. One bonus of hours of insane training and diet is a rockin' bod, and we all notice, gay, straight or somewhere else on the spectrum. As one Olympian told ESPN the Magazine, "Even if their […]

The former NBA All-Star talks to Outsports about his gay former teammate

Matthew Mitcham is the only openly gay Australian Olympian (Photo: Chris Hyde/Getty Images) Australian Olympic shooters Russell and Lauryn Mark are making asses of themselves after whining that they won't be able to stay together in the Olympic village. He says it's anti-heterosexual discrimination. "The stupid part of this, which I have argued to them, […]

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Young Professionals Council (YPC) is hitting the sand for the fourth annual YPC Beach Volleyball Classic at Will Rogers State Beach on Saturday, Aug. 11. The tournament benefits the Center and volleyball players of all skill levels are welcome! Each team of six to eight players has a choice […]

The NFL superstar would have no issue with a gay player on his team.