Month: December 2013

The principles laid out in the Olympic Charter should allow for some commentary by athletes on Russian anti-gay laws

Jason Collins and Martina Navratilova join a panel of to discuss LGBT discrimination in international sports

Athletes won't be allowed to make political demonstrations. Some will be allowed to protest in particular areas. 2014 will be no different from 2008 and every other Olympic Games.

Councillor Tim Stevenson will be the city's official representative at the Winter Olympics

The University of North Carolina athletic teams has released a terrific video for the You Can Play Project. It has the most diverse group of sports and athletes of any of these I've seen. Especially notable are the appearances of J.P. Tokoto and Nate Britt from men's basketball and football players Shakeel Rashad, Allen Champagne, […]

The university will cut men's gymnastics, but three gay former gymnasts talk about how the program nurtured a brotherhood that embraced everyone and helped them out of the closet. They have helped start an online petition to save it.

Outsports joins group of celebrities and activists aiming to support and raise money for LGBT Russians

Jack Harry, a sportscaster in Kansas City, has denied he called the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team the "Gayhawks" during a Sunday broadcast: I listened to it numerous times and it sounds like Harry does say "Gayhawks." According to multiple reports, he is known as rooting for the University of Missouri, Kansas' big rival, and […]

Sin City Shootout will feature the "Gay Frisbee" tournament in January

While big names like Jason Collins and Brittney Griner are there, Towleroad also highlights stories from high school and college sports

The 2014 calendar hopes to promote the sport of swimming, and apparently the gorgeous bodies of swimmers themselves

Openly gay speed skater Skjellerup missed out on an automatic bid to the Sochi Olympics by one position.

The first item on our news roundup list is not sports-specific, but it is a very interesting analysis of exactly what percentage of American men are gay. The piece was in Sunday's New York Times Week in Review section and looks at everything from Facebook declarations to searches for gay porn. Also, a lot of […]

We talk about the process of British diving sensation Tom Daley coming out as bisexual. Sort of. Mostly.

Pride House International was rejected by the Russians, now they want to take their LGBT-inclusive message to cities around the world this February

This is one of the more bizarre public awareness campaigns I can recall, but when it involves Swedes wrestling naked, who cares? The Swedish LGBTQ group RFSL Goteborg got a group of Swedish wrestlers to get naked and cover themselves in jelly, frosting, cola and other slippery substances to encourage people to get tested for […]

We enjoy featuring sports teams that release calendars and this one was unexpected: the men's water polo team from Croatia. The sport is huge in the former republics of Yugoslavia and the Croatians hope the calendar will draw new fans. "Yes, these babes live in Croatia!" said the headline of one story on the calendar […]

If you like seeing a bunch of athletic, shirtless men dancing, then this video from Boston's gay flag football league is for you. The league debuted the video at its recent end of the year party and it already has 90,000 views.

When Dafforn came out to his Boilermakers team his senior year, they were only mad he hadn't come out sooner

I must have been in a coma this August when Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III came out as gay. I think it would have at least made the news somewhere. Britain's Sky News told me so after it listed famous gay athletes in reaction to diver Tom Daley saying he has a boyfriend. Dan […]