Month: January 2013

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Robin Johnstone and Gareth Thomas Out former pro rugby player Gareth Thomas is apparently the new front-runner in the UK's Dancing On Ice show. On this week's installment, Thomas topped the judges' scores with a 22.5 (out of a possible 40), prompting judge Jason Gardiner to share some unexpected surprise by by the muscled athlete's […]

Girlfriend hoax has many people asking if the Notre Dame linebacker is hiding his sexual orientation.

If you’ve noticed the complexion of Denver Broncos wide receiver Eric Decker clearing up, it’s not by accident. Peyton Manning’s second favorite target this season appears in a new ad for the acne treatment Proactiv trying to convince men that skin treatment isn’t “too girly” for them to use. If only he’d find someone to […]

The Peoria Rivermen of the American Hockey League have released one of the best You Can Play videos I’ve seen yet. In case you didn’t know, the AHL is a 30-team pro hockey league that serves as a developmental circuit for the NHL. There are a few things I like about this one. First, they […]

We often hear that a professional athlete won’t win the Super Bowl and tell the media, “I’m taking my boyfriend to Disney World,” but that’s the exactly what actress Jodie Foster did Sunday night (video below). Upon receiving the Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes, she had the audience shedding tears with a […]

Gay Hockey Ohio will host what is believed to be the first “Pride Night” at a Div. 1 men’s hockey game when Ohio State hosts Notre Dame on Feb. 1. What’s more, the You Can Play project is getting behind the event, as is the OSU hockey team itself. And from what we hear, there […]

As I am writing this item, “faggot” has been posted 24,000 times on Twitter in one day, “no homo” 8,000 times, “so gay” 7,600 times and dyke 2,900 times. This comes courtesy of nohomophobes.com, which keeps a daily track as it calls attention to the widespread use of homophobic language. The site is run by […]

NFLPA’s George Atallah As the NFL Players Association gears up for its second annual Collegiate Bowl, Outsports talked with the union's assistant executive director of external affairs, George Atallah, about homophobia among their members, and the impact of an out gay player. Atallah acknowledged there are both gay players and men who have religious and […]

Brian Burke President and general manager Brian Burke was let go by the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday after four years with the team. He's being retained in an advisory role, which tells us the team still respects the work he's done. He was previously the general manager of the Hartford Whalers, Vancouver Canucks and […]

Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was a guest on “The Colbert Report” to discuss his support of marriage equality and gay rights in general. It was great to see an NFL player talking gay rights on national TV. There is nothing newsworthy about what Kluwe said (he has been articulate on the issue throughout), though […]

Daniel Rajcsanyi, who goes by “Dani,” is a 20-year-old openly gay German snowboarder from Munich and a free spirit. In his bio on the Isenseven snowboarding site, he describes some of his hobbies as “playing World of Warcraft, speed dating and wanking.” So it's not a surprise that he would film a video of himself […]

Wade Davis Openly gay former NFL player Wade Davis talked with Touré for the Daily Beast about gay professional athletes he knows in the NBA and the NFL. Davis said he knows three in the NFL alone. He said at least one of them is out to his teammates, and the team knows he has […]

It’s been extremely hot in Australia, including Melbourne, site of the Australia Open, which starts next week. Speaking of hot, that would be Andy Murray, the British player who won the Olympic gold medal in August and the U.S. Open in September and who has put on more muscle as the 2013 season starts. Murray […]

Legendary University of Texas women’s track coach Bev Kearney has resigned after admitting to a sexual relationship with one of her athletes in 2002. Patti Ohlendorf, UT-Austin Vice President for Legal Affairs, issued a statement that read, in part: Based upon the review, the University does not believe that Coach Kearney had any similar relationships […]

Neil Patrick Harris and CBS are being slammed by some Christians for the openly gay actor’s apparent nod to New York Jets “quarterback” Tim Tebow in a recent Super Bowl ad. In the commercial, NPH is seen wearing eye black with the date of the Super Bowl — Feb. 3, 3013 — written on it. […]

The largest LGBT sporting event of the year in North America is set for Las Vegas as the 6th annual Sin City Shootout Sports Festival offers 12 sports with about 5,250 registered to participate. More than 6,000 are expected to play and watch, with about 95% of all rooms at the event’s host hotel -– […]

Joshua McKinley of the Lifetime show “Project Runway All Stars,” was an openly gay multisport athlete at his Cleveland area high school and he is designing a dress as a fund-raiser for the school. McKinley, 27, was a high school star in the 300-meter hurdles and also swam and ran cross-country. He told the Cleveland […]

John Leung of SB Nation’s Waking The Red blog (for Toronto FC) has written an extensive look at how North American soccer — and Major League Soccer in particular — is running circles around the anti-homophobia efforts of European soccer. He chronicles the incredible steps taken by MLS in the last year, along with some […]

Member of the All Blacks at a December match. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images) The All Blacks are the team in rugby-mad New Zealand, so if a player came out as gay that would be huge news there, as big as an NFL player coming out in the U.S. Calls are now coming from New […]