Month: September 2012

San Diego Bolts. Photo credit: John W. Cox III Another Gay Bowl is in the books. Held in Denver last weekend, Oct. 21-23, Gay Bowl XII saw a fifth city join the circle of champions, the first-even women's division, and a five-overtime game! As always, big thanks to everyone who spent the last two years […]

A lesbian high school athletic director in San Luis Obispo, Calif., has been the target of at least three hate crimes over the last month. The first incident left the car of Bailey Brown covered with graffiti and the tires slashed. Other incidents targeted her at her school with homophobic slurs in at least four […]

When Bleacher Report ranked the D1 college football programs based on how hot their fans are, they predictably showcased only “hot chicks.” Yet the hottest people at games are always the guys with the body paint. So here they are — guys from 14 schools with the ever-popular body paint. In my extensive research, I […]

Yunel Escobar (Photo: Brad Penner-US PRESSWIRE) Yunel Escobar, suspended three games by the Toronto Blue Jays for writing a gay slur on his eye-black, met two gay athletes during a busy day on Thursday. Escobar met with openly gay sophomore Boston College runner Jose Estevez and You Can Play founder Patrick Burke after being invited […]

Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe is a hero to gays and lesbians and right-thinking Americans for his his unflinching and passionate support for same-sex marriage. He is working hard to defeat an amendment in Minnesota that would enshrine marriage inequality in the state constitution. He’s also making some enemies. On his Twitter feed, Kluwe posted […]

1 The 2012 AFL Grand Final in Australian rules football will take place Saturday in Melbourne as the Hawthorn Hawks battle the Sydney Swans. It's the AFL's version of the Super Bowl. It's a great time to show some photos of a great Aussie tradition — the recovery session. This is where players from teams […]

Former world-class rugby player Ben Cohen, who has turned his full-time attention to combatting bullying, is launching a quarterly magazine called StandUp Magazine. The magazine will be published by Media Out Loud’s Eric Carlyle and StandUp Foundation’s Patrick Davis. According to the magazine’s first press release: StandUp Magazine, carrying the tagline “True Champions Stand Up,” […]

The Advocate has an interview with two authors of new books about gay athletes in high school. From The Advocate: Jennifer Lavoie and Del Darcy are both first-time authors, with sports-related debut novels featuring young, gay male athletes. Lavoie's book, [Andy Squared], features a pair of twin siblings, both soccer stars, whose ideal lives get […]

Students at the University of Virginia have been inserting the word “not” before the word “gay” (originally meant as happy) in the school’s traditional “Good Ol’ Song” sung before most sports events. This practice has been going on since the 1970s and has calls to change it have gotten largely ignored. The student council last […]

Wow. That about sums up our sentiment here at Outsports. The Federation of Gay Games announced they are presenting us with one of their Legacy Awards at their 30th anniversary brunch in Los Angeles, Oct. 20. Outsports will receive the organization’s Media Award for being, according to their press release, “one of the few online […]

Friday night was restless for Kevin McClatchy. His identity since his early 20s had been in part defined by the closet he hid in. With Saturday’s approaching dawn, that closet door would be flung open with a New York Times column by Frank Bruni in which the former Pittsburgh Pirates owner declared publicly for the […]

Anyone who types in “cowboys.com” expecting to find out about Tony Romo, Miles Austin or Jason Witten, will instead find profiles allegedly of men looking for their own cowpoke. The site launched last week, five years after the Dallas Cowboys screwed up a bidding process to obtain the domain name cowboys.com. “We are extremely excited […]

While many of our readers have seen their stories before, we’re proud to present, along with our partners at Miller 64, five openly gay athletes and former athletes who we feel represent the contributions of sports folks in the gay-rights movement. There are so many amazing people doing great work. These particular five are knee-deep […]

The NFL has officially become a farce after replacement officials stole a game from the Green Bay Packers on the last play of Monday night’s game against the Seattle Seahawks. The Seahawks “won” 14-12 on a last-play TD pass from Russell Wilson to Golden Tate. Except, the pass was actually intercepted by M.D. Jennings, which […]

4 We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include the return of football, including not one but two shots of Brady Quinn, who seems to have disappeared in the NFL. We also have images from that wonderful Aussie Rules Football tradition of "recovery sessions," where players frolic in the […]

Ads against homophobia will be broadcast at the two semifinal matches for Aussie Rules Football’s Grand Final. They come on the heels of a minor league Aussie Rules player, Jason Ball, who came out as gay this month and urged such ads to be run. The ads will be shown on the big screen for […]

From left: Brad Michael of Minnesotans for Marriage Equality; Chris Kluwe and Esera Tuaolo Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe has a beautiful column at Twincities.com about what gay marriage means to him as a father. Kluwe, whom we've written about extensively for his support of gay rights, appeared at a Minneapolis fundraiser on Friday along […]

Mark Cuban. Kevin Durant. Arian Foster. Floyd Maywether. Outsports. We’re so thrilled to again be listed as part of Sports Illustrated‘s Twitter 100. The list is compiled by polling the magazine’s staffers, who are all “hard-core Twitter users.” And while we can’t compete with Bill Simmons’ 1.8 million Twitter followers, it’s awesome to see the […]

The Toronto Blue Jays suspended Yunel Escobar for three games. He called the episode a “terrible experience.” His salary for those three games will be donated to the You Can Play project and GLAAD. That total is nearly $100k. Said Escobar during a press conference on Tuesday (via a translator): "I don't have anything against […]

Ben Baur of ‘Hunting Season’ I can think of no more popular sport in America than hunting. OK, maybe not for deer, but certainly hunting… for sex. And relationships. The most successful businessmen I know, with all the money and fame in the world, are still just like the rest of us, huntin' for a […]