Month: November 2012

In September, we told you about the 2013 naked calendar by the Warwick University rowing club in Coventry, England, proceeds of which go to Ben Cohen’s StandUp Foundation to fight bullying of gay kids. The boys are now back with a video called “Brokeback Boathouse.” "Discover the unpixellated truth about what happens when sportsmen get […]

Team passes the buck to head coach Pat Shurmur

A year after hiring Rick Welts as team president, the Golden State Warriors are giving fans in the Bay Area something to celebrate for the first time in a half-decade. The Warriors sit atop the Pacific Division with a 9-6 record, tied for the seventh-best record in basketball. While Welts isn’t in charge of personnel, […]

Browns quiet on the topic

Editor’s note: Joshua Martino’s novel “Fontana” was called “illuminating and beautifully written” by the Advocate. Outsports asked him to write about his motivations for writing the book. By Joshua Martino One of a writer’s responsibilities, as I see them, is to dispel bad ideas. In my new novel, “Fontana”, I attempt to do just that […]

Indianapolis Colts To the list of possible hazards of playing in the NFL add "dangerous boners." That's the opinion of Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs, when asked about players using Viagra to help with (on-field) performance. From CBS Chicago: “I heard about that. I guess, boners. There’s gonna be a lot of dangerous boners on […]

You’ve probably never heard of professional wrestler Scorpio Sky. He’s had short stints in the NWA, WWE and TNA, but for the most part he’s like a third-string wide receiver trying to find a home. But just a day after publishing our list of 14 athletes who’ve made anti-gay tweets this year, Scorpio Sky increases […]

James Finley Virginia Commonwealth University's women's volleyball coach James Finley claims he was fired because he is gay. And from what we've read so far, he's got a good case. From GayRVA.com: The VCU Women’s Volleyball season went well for Finley. He and his women entered the Atlantic 10 Conference, a step up in difficulty […]

GLSEN, whose Changing The Game program trains coaches and school administrators on how to handle LGBT issues on their teams and in their leagues, could win $1 million from the American Giving Awards presented by Chase. But they need your help! Winners will be announced on the awards show, which will air on NBC on […]

Vince Pryor was gay to his TCU team years before Carder arrived on campus

Riley Sheahan (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) Riley Sheahan is a top prospect in the Detroit Red Wings organization and he spent two days before Halloween getting "super drunk," according to police. He used a teammate's ID to get into bars and was dressed as Tinky Winky (yeah, the "gay" Teletubby). He had a blood […]

Rourke (left) and Thomas It's been a couple years since Mickey Rourke and Gareth Thomas teamed up to develop a film about the gay Welsh rugby player's life. Funding and producing a film is no easy task, no matter what the budget. This film has also struggled with what is either a huge boon to […]

What do you do when your team under-performs and the owner refuses to fire himself as general manager? If you’re “America’s team,” you go to the head of America…President Barack Obama. From the Dallas Morning News: In the petitions section of the White House website, one was created for President Barack Obama to have Jones […]

Team distances itself from linebacker's comments

Get a Twitter account, become an idiot who sends out offensive tweets, then either apologize, sort-of-apologize or stand firm. That seems to be the template for many athletes who start Twitter feeds. A check of Outsports archives finds 14 athletes who have made anti-gay tweets in some way since November 2011. This does not take […]

Says he doesn't 'agree with being gay'

Among the many rationalizations we hear as to why athletes don’t (or shouldn’t) come out is the idea that opposing fans will heckle them or call them gay slurs. One of my favorite responses to that was when I asked Kye Allums if he was concerned about that before coming out as transgender. “They already […]

Does Stepfan Taylor look down to you? For all of the headlines about an undefeated Notre Dame team headed to the BCS title game, my mind lingers on a game in October they didn't win. Down 20-13 in overtime, Stanford faced a 4th-and-goal to send the game into a second overtime. Running back Stepfan Taylor […]

Browns linebacker is mostly sorry he got caught

Anders Lindegaard (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images) There may be no more well-known sports team in the world than Manchester United, so when one of its stars says soccer is ready for an openly gay player, it's news. Anders Lindegaard, 28, is the team’s goalie and in in a blog post he wrote for a […]