Month: February 2014

The gloves were the colors of the Olympic rings, not the gay rainbow flag.

Gay Fox Sports crew member Ryan Sifferman will be sharing his thoughts from Sochi as an out gay man throughout the Winter Olympics. For this entry, he talks about fear he felt when he encountered children.

Gay Fox Sports crew member Ryan Sifferman will be sharing his thoughts from Sochi as an out gay man throughout the Winter Olympics.

Gay Fox Sports crew member Ryan Sifferman will be sharing his thoughts from Sochi as an out gay man throughout the Winter Olympics. For this entry, he talks about using Scruff to navigate Moscow.

Friestad grew up in Plano, Texas, and was fully supported by his high school team. He had to come out again at Div. 1 New Jersey Institute of Technology, and he was embraced.

Here is a list of Winter Olympians competing in Sochi who have stood up for gay rights. Some have spoken out directly against Russia’s new anti-gay laws, while others have talked about gay issues in the past. Many of the NHL players in the Olympics have appeared in videos for the You Can Play Project, […]

The Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusion released this ad on the eve of the start of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia: Hat tip to Ad Age, which also had a story about the five gay nesting dolls sent to the Kremlin.

So far we have seven out Winter Olympians, all women. There are no out Americans.

Scott Cooper just finished his senior season. He found true acceptance on his Augsburg College football team, which included him being asked by a coach to speak on National Coming Out Day and introducing his partner at Senior Day.

Cooper talks football, religion and his future.

Welcome everyone to my first installment for Sochi 2014 on figure skating. But before I get started, I’d like to tip my hat to my local Vancouver Councilmen, Tim Stevenson, who is in Sochi as an official Canadian representative to present something that country desperately is lacking, a human conscience. After the mayor of Sochi […]

Russia might be trying to outlaw the gay, but the toilets at some venues at the Sochi Winter Olympics make it quite easy for two dudes to get together without arousing suspicion: On the other hand, given that Russia is monitoring all communications within Sochi and will store the data for three years, there's a […]

Remote Pride Houses and Uprising Of Love offer the opportunity during the Opening Ceremony to give back to the community -- and donate to LGBT groups in Russia -- while respecting the athletes we want to stand up for us.

There's a reason skaters tiptoe around issue of gay rights and their own orientation.

Whitney found complete acceptance from his Walla Walla Community College baseball team when he came out to them just days after his then-boyfriend, Conner Mertens, came out to his college football team.

Vilma again takes a swing at gay men, assuming they all want to see him naked and worrying about what to do if he knew one of them did.

Homophobia in women's sports, and transphobia in all sports, have other key issues. But to end homophobia in men's sports, football is the biggest game in town.

Walters will be reporting from Sochi for Outsports and SB Nation, in addition to Entertainment Tonight and Us Weekly.

Finnish Olympic swimmer Ari-Pekka Liukkonen, 24, has come out publicly as gay in reaction to anti-gay laws passed in Russia."I wanted to join the discussion in relation to Sochi, since it is a sad fact that the Russian gay law affects negatively Russian young people's lives and infringes human rights in general, Ari-Pekka told the […]

Peyton Manning is my favorite athlete of all time, so here is my recap of Super Bowl XLVIII, won by Seattle over Denver, 43-8: I have nothing more to add. The highlight was Joe Namath screwing up the coin toss. It was downhill from there. If you care about the game, you can check out […]