Month: May 2013

(This story was published in 2001). Dear Mr. Jordan: After further review, we have decided that we no longer require your services as a player in the NBA. We understand that this must be hard news for you to hear, but please understand that the circumstances surrounding this issue have changed dramatically in recent weeks. […]

(This story was published in 2001). “Mental malfunction.” “Gays are going to hell.” “As bad as drug-dealers.” These anti-gay slurs were typical of much listener response to the gays in baseball issue on radio talk shows in the Heartland and Bible Belt in the past week. Cyd Zeigler and myself were separately interviewed on two […]

Landry Jones and Jeremy Affeldt talk about their Christian perspectives on gay athletes

Jallen Messersmith was raised Mormon, overcame bullying and is openly gay on his Catholic college's basketball team in Kansas. And he goes on more dates than his teammates.

Andrew Goldstein played Major League Lacrosse and broke into pro sports as an openly gay man eight years ago

(This story was published in 2002) By: Nat Brown I had the privilege of spending the 2002 Olympics working for the Swedish and German cross-country ski teams. Why me? And why the Germans AND the Swedes? Last spring I was asked to set up accommodations and a good working place for the Invisible People who […]

(This story was published in 2001). By: Tim Miller Copyright 2001Reprinted by permission of the author (Tim Miller is an internationally known performance artist and writer) OK, I admit it, I was definitely one of those queer boys who got picked last–or on a good day next to last–for every team sport except square dancing. […]

(This story was published in 2003). Related: Keith Olbermann responds to this column (see bottom of page) Judging by the reaction to a gossip item about Sandy Koufax, one would have thought the New York Post had accused him of helping Saddam Hussein build weapons of mass destruction. Or of having become a San Francisco […]

(This story was published in 2002). A baseball player in New York calls a press conference to declare his heterosexuality and the story fires up the sports world. A female pro basketball player in New York tells a magazine she’s a lesbian and the public yawns. The reactions to Mike Piazza and Sue Wicks confirm […]

(This story was published in 2001). During the Cold War, Kremlinologists in the U.S. regularly got out their magnifying glasses to study pictures in Pravda, the Soviet Union’s official newspaper. By analyzing who had joined–or who was missing from–the podium at various parades and functions, these Soviet experts would attempt to dissect the shifting power […]

(This story was published in 2001). Lesbian basketball fans and gay Major League Baseball players have been all the rage in the sports media the past two weeks. This alone is unprecedented. The mainstream media barely acknowledges the existence of gay athletes or fans. Having the issue raised in, among others, The New York Times, […]

(This story was published in 2002). Sports talk radio, for the most part, is to intelligent discourse what pork rinds are to gourmet cooking. The medium is populated (with some exceptions) by hosts who are loud-mouthed and obnoxious and callers who are clueless and obnoxious. It’s “Animal House” on the AM dial with “Bob from […]

(This story was published in 2003). By: Billy Bean with Chris Bull (From “Going the Other Way: Lesson From a Life In and Out of Major-League Baseball.” Reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright 2003. From Marlow and Company publishers). (Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from Billy Bean’s new book “Going the Other Way.” […]

(This story was published in 2002 and updated in 2008). By: Jen Moore ‘ve run the circles. I know for a fact that there are more than just me in all of varsity athletics at Penn. I’ve run into them at bars, seen them with their partners, had my friends tell me they’ve met so-and-so […]

(This story was published in 2002). These articles originally appeared in the Oakland Tribune on June 7. The paper’s Turn 2 in Sports on Fridays is devoted to a topic and gays in sports was chosen this day. An Internet poll for the paper found 51% saying fans would accept an openly gay player and […]

Robbie Rogers has received his International Transfer Certificate and is available to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy tonight, a day after the team announced his acquisition. Yesterday, coach Bruce Arena said Rogers would likely be on the 18-man roster if he received his ITC. The Galaxy play against the Seattle Sounders tonight at Home […]

He enters the game in the 77th minute for the Los Angeles Galaxy, three months after coming out.

Rogers thinks being gay helped him land a trade to Los Angeles. Landon Donovan, Bruce Arena, Robbie Keane and others welcome the new member of their club.

The newest member of the L.A. Galaxy is eager to get back on the field and play the sport he loves. It's quite a change from when he first came out.

Fox beats Allanna Jones to advance to the title match of Championship Fighting Alliance 11