Month: August 2013

Last week’s performances and political statements during the World Championships in track and field give us hope that athletes will continue to be vocal allies for LGBT athletes.

Sam Mikulak won the men's gold at the USA Gymnastics' national championship meet this weekend in Hartford, Conn. Mikulak, who attends the University of Michigan, finished silver medalist Alexander Naddour and bronze medalist Jake Dalton. John Orozco was fourth. Here is the Men's Senior National Team, announced after the meet:Jake Dalton (University of Oklahoma)Stacey Ervin […]

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Dixon finishes 10th in the all-around after a top-four finish on Day 1

Update to original article: A day after the race, one of the Russians said the kiss had nothing to do with LGBT rights (see below). Original article: The picture is all over the Internet of Russian sprinters Kseniya Ryzhova and Tatyana Firova kissing on the podium after their relay team won the 4×400 race at […]

Swedish high jumper Emma Green Tregaro was forced to paint over her rainbow fingernails after being told it violated track and field rules on making a political statement. Green Tregaro instead painted them red "for love," she said at the world track and field championships in Moscow. "It was harder to not paint them in […]

The USOC says the Russian law isn't consistent with the Olympic Games. Swedish hockey players from the NHL oppose the law. And what will NBC do?

"I want to underscore that I am against any discrimination of people based on their sexual orientation," Yelena Isinbayeva says a day after saying gays were not normal.

The reaction has been positive for the openly gay wrestler, as it has been for every gay male athlete to come out before him

Nick Symmonds started a trickle of athletes at the Track & Field World Championships speaking out against Russia's anti-gay laws.

Openly gay boxer Orlando Cruz is getting married to his boyfriend José Manuel. The proposal, and the acceptance, happened the old-fashioned way — on Facebook. "I want to tell you that you are a very special person in my life. I am a little nervous, but I want to tell you and share with your […]

Two Swedish athletes at the World Track and Field Championships in Moscow have painted their fingernails with rainbow colors to show solidarity with LGBT people and their opposition to anti-gay laws in Russia. In response, a Russian pole vaulter has condemned the athletes and gay people in general. Emma Green Tregaro, who won a bronze […]

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Young, in LA for Summer Slam, is the first headlining pro wrestler to come out

The Hall of Fame quarterback continues his support of the LGBT community

While it will be hard for athletes to hold rainbow flags, they can hold one another's hand in solidarity with the LGBT community

RGIII says his Christian upbringing doesn't affect his perspective on gay people

Two days ago, I criticized American middle distance runner Nick Symmonds for saying he was a gay ally, yet would remain silent about Russia's anti-gay laws while competing at the World Track and Field Championships in Moscow. But after taking the silver medal in the men's 800 meters, Symmonds was not silent, telling Russia's R-Sport […]

"Would you like a World Cup where naked people are running around displaying their homosexuality?" he asks.

Those wacky Burgess brothers of Australia's National Rugby League are at it again. First, brother George was caught posting nude selfies on Twitter (not that we minded). Now, brother Sam has been suspended for using a "squirrel grip" on an opponent, Will Chambers, during a game. A "squirrel grip" means "grabbing a handful of nuts," […]