Month: June 2016

Michael Bradley adorned the rainbow-colored captains arm band for the U.S. Men's National Team match against Ecuador.

The Ohio State Buckeyes claim a gay pride parade is no longer safe for their mascot.

Nigerian Football Federation vice-president tells reporters that his country's women's national team is suffering because of too many lesbians. That certainly hasn't hurt the United States team.

"The weirdness and personal shame that I once felt are things of the past," Brendan Housler writes.

While various professional sports teams claim to be inclusive, virtually all of them have trouble talking about 'LGBT,' 'gay' and 'sexual orientation' in conjunction with their events and the LGBT massacre in Orlando.

The Orlando native talks about what the Pulse killings mean to her sense of freedom and security.

LGBT people continue to hold the most powerful tools in healing the hate: our own love and courage in the face of fear.

Pulse was the first gay bar Austin Olivares went to in Orlando and he grieves with his city.

Orlando, Florida, June 12, 2016.Donate to the victims

Jamie Neal went to an Oakland A's game earlier this year presenting as a man. The shame and discomfort she felt doing that made her throw away her men's clothes for good. She's Jamie from now on.

LGBT Sports Roundup: Pole vaulter Tanner Williams of Oklahoma makes his last jump, plus a roundup around the nation.

Nashville the site for the eighth world gay rugby final.

"I believe in equality for all people," he says.

This is an excerpt from Cyd Zeigler's new book, 'FAIR PLAY: How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place In Sports,' released June 7.

"I have found that there is this symbiotic relationship between my confidence and success as an athlete and my confidence and acceptance of my identity as a gay man."

"I feel like the luckiest person in the world," the Spanish skater says.

The NBA has teamed up with GLSEN and Teespring to bring a line of T-shirts with every team's logo in a rainbow, in celebration of Pride Month.

"A homosexual can be as manly as a heterosexual," says the winner, who credits running with keeping him in shape.

League devotes variety of events to celebrate Pride Month.

"I am proud of this moment," he says after race in Spain.