Month: May 2012

Here is an awesome story from the Indianapolis Star about 13-year-old diver Jordan Pisey Windle. He is an orphan from Cambodia who was adopted in 2000 by Jerry Windle. Years later, Windle met and fell in love with Andrés Rodriguez and now Jordan has two dads. He filmed an It Gets Better video (below) and […]

Actor Jason Alexander decided to tell everyone exactly what he thinks of gay men on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Talk turned from poker, which Alexander obviously thinks is a masculine game, to cricket. The actor then went on a tirade about how “gay” cricket is because he perceives it to be weak […]

Soccer superstar David Beckham will be the first man to grace the cover of Elle UK. From Towleroad: Said ELLE Editor in Chief Lorraine Candy: "David Beckham is a national hero. He is an icon and Elle is known for featuring icons on its cover. This is a first for us on the newsstand and […]

15 We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include the national collegiate lacrosse champs, the Stanley Cup Finals, divers getting ready for London, track and field, Aussie Rules Football, the French Open, and NFL minicamps featuring Peyton Manning in his new uniform. Click image for larger, full-sized view: 15 […]

By Pat Griffin, Helen Carroll & Cyd Zeigler Homophobia and transphobia are persistent problems in sport that have silenced gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender athletes and coaches for much of the last century. Thanks to pioneers like former NFL player Dave Kopay, tennis great Martina Navratilova, and transgender professional tennis player Renee Richards, the climate […]

Gareth Thomas is naked in the UK gay mag Attitude The sixth Bingham Cup rugby tournament is being held this weekend in Manchester, England, and will be bigger than ever, with 37 teams from 15 countries. It will also have on hand two pro rugby players who have teamed up on a campaign to fight […]

“Home of the Trojans” took on new meaning in 2001 when the “The Gangbang Girl #32” was filmed at the Los Angeles Coliseum. The Los Angeles Times made the discovery recently, and one of the film’s actors, Mr. Marcus, was happy to sit down with them for an interview. "I was just in awe that […]

Before Tuesday, Serena Williams was 46-0 in the first round of tennis’ majors. Make that 46-1 after she was stunned 6-4, 6-7 (13), 3-6, by the No. 111-ranked Virginie Razzano of France. Outsports reader and tennis fanatic Mdterp01 had picked Williams to win the French Open just hours before her loss, then responded: Before Tuesday, […]

Matthew Mitcham, defending champion in the Olympic 10-meter platform diving, and the rest of the Australian diving team met the media in Brisbane to discuss the London Olympics and pose for photos. Mitcham, who is openly gay and the biggest star of the team with his gold medal from 2008, got the most attention. “I […]

Akil Patterson One of Outsports' favorites, Greco Roman wrestler and former University of Maryland football player Akil Patterson, popped the question to his partner Louis Billings this weekend. He said yes. The proposal was made via Facebook, as Patterson relates: We had been in the car visiting his hometown (San Diego). We stopped at a […]

Eddie George Outsports' story about a dozen NFL players offering support for a gay teammate got an overwhelming response from the sports media. SBNation was all over it with a lead story, a video interview (below) and coverage on many of their network's blogs. NFL.com and ProFootballTalk both followed suit, placing the story on their […]

On his Washington DC-based radio show with Chad Dukes, LaVar Arrington discussed an NFL player coming out of the closet, in response to our article highlighting 12 NFL players who wouldn’t care. Arrington retweeted dozens of responses he got, and he said that player would be held up as a “national hero”: I know this, […]

1 We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include a soccer celebration, Aussie Rules Football, English rugby, the NBA playoffs, track and field, baseball (including Bryce Harper's hair), lacrosse and NFL minicamps featuring perennial faves Jason Witten, Danny Amendola and Alex Smith. Click image for larger, full-sized view: 1 […]

The Golden State Warriors have not played in San Francisco since 1966. For most of the time since then they’ve called (what now is) Oracle Arena in Oakland their home. But new team president Rick Welts, along with team co-owner Peter Guber and NBA president David Stern, have announced the team’s return to San Francisco […]

Rolanda DelaMartinez (mother of Kye Allums) and Keelin Godsey (right) Pablo S. Torre and David Epstein have delivered possibly the most comprehensive article on trans athletes we've ever seen in the media. Simply titled The Transgender Athlete, the Sports Illustrated story revisits athletes like Key Allums and Keelin Godsey, whom we've written about on Outsports, […]

This is not an article from the Onion. There actually is a Catholic group called Courage that is holding a sports weekend as a way for men to channel their same-sex urges into more manly pursuits. From the Philadelphia Daily News: This weekend a group of men will gather at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary to […]

Rookies Robert Griffin III, Trent Richardson, Coby Fleener and others join retired veterans Jevon Kearse, Ahman Green and Eddie George in supporting gay football players

Jessica Aguilar made her professional MMA debut in 2006, but it’s just now that she’s talking about her sexual orientation publicly. The fighter told Sports Illustrated‘s Loretta Hunt that she is bisexual and lives with her girlfriend. Unfortunately, she faces less-than-perfect acceptance from her mother. She’s also reached some comfort in sharing her bisexual orientation, […]

British human rights lawyer and writer Mark Stephens has written a provocative article arguing that LGBT rights be the centerpiece of the London Olympics. Nations that still criminalize homosexuality should be banned by the International Olympic Committee, he argues, just like South Africa was under apartheid until 1992. He writes in the Guardian: When people […]

Visitors to Outsports recently may have thought they had stumbled across the Focus on the Family website by accident, given all the comments by anti-gay religious zealots. I expect this whenever we write about Tim Tebow — he has a passionate fundamentalist fan base, which takes umbrage to anything negative written about him, even if […]