Month: November 2014

Outsports has run some significant stories over the years. Here are 15 that helped advance the conversation about LGBT athletics, or simply grabbed my attention.

While few major athletes have come out, LGBT people in all sports are no longer silent.

Joe In Philly was the king of Outsports for much of the first half of our existence. He was our most prolific poster on the discussion board and helped define Outsports as an entity in the sports world. He reflects here on Outsports' first 15 years.

Hockey kid Mikey, who claimed to be a teenage hockey player, is actually a 40-something man in Minnesota.

Outsports first published on Nov. 10, 1999. Since then the two co-founders, Jim Buzinski and Cyd Zeigler, have built the largest LGBT sports publication in the world.

Outsports first published on Nov. 10, 1999. Since then the two co-founders, Jim Buzinski and Cyd Zeigler, have built the largest LGBT sports publication in the world.

Deion Sanders, NFL great, tweeted with me and others about his feelings that being gay "could be" a choice.

Deion Sanders tells Larry King he thinks being gay "could be" a choice because, in part, "the God I know doesn't make mistakes."

Participants will develop best practices and policies to create environments that are respectful of religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and gender identity/expression

Michael Sam's courage dominated sports news all year long.

Basketball star got small cut when man attacked her and her teammates.

Will there ever be a time when black athletes on the down low can be on the up high?

CNN airs a special on the gay rodeo, hosted by Lisa Ling. Get your chaps ready.

Robbie Manson, Olympic rower for New Zealand, comes out publicly as gay, talks about the struggles in the closet and coming out to friends before the 2012 Olympics.

The soccer star literally takes a bite out of his briefs to celebrate his underwear line.

Outsports is again listed in Sports Illustrated's Twitter 100, which showcases sports Twitter feeds to follow.

Every big-time conference Defensive Player of the Year drafted since 2000 – from the ACC, Big Ten, Big XII, Pac-12 and SEC – has made an active NFL roster his rookie season ... until Michael Sam came out as gay.

Eric Lueshen's first-hand account of being an openly gay football player for the Nebraska Cornhuskers a decade ago

Conner Mertens supplies the difference-making field goal in Willamette's shocking upset win at Linfield College.

TCU's gay assistant athletic director Drew Martin was surely the inspiration behind these West Virginia fan's "gay dads" insult of the Horned Frogs.