Month: January 2014

If the potential for distraction is the reason the vast majority of GLBT Olympians remain closeted, it’s time for the rest of us to realize that elite athletes are terrible role models for the GLBT community.

It's Outsports' third GLAAD Award nomination. Nine nominations are related to sports this year.

We've gone live with our podcasts! Today we talked about the Broncos and Seahawks matchup in the Super Bowl and college athletes coming out in droves!

Virtually every major sports outlet -- including ESPN, Fox Sports and CBS Sports -- covered the coming out of college football kicker Conner Mertens.

The Willamette University football player joins Ousports and Wade Davis for an online chat.

The university issued a statement of support earlier today.

A place kicker at Willamette University in Oregon, Mertens came out as bisexual to his team last night. He now comes out publicly in hopes of inspiring other LGBT athletes to come out and be true to themselves.

A place kicker at Willamette University in Oregon, Mertens came out as bisexual to his team. He now comes out publicly in hopes of inspiring other LGBT athletes to come out and be true to themselves.

Saturday Night Live shows the sordid details of Men's Heterosexual Figure Skating

Collins will join Boston Marathon bombing survivors Carlos Arredondo and Jeff Bauman, among others.

We have our first comments this year at the Super Bowl regarding the acceptance of gay players in the NFL. From the Twitter feed of Paul Domowitch of the Philadelphia Daily News: Must Reads Gay guide to the Super Bowl Jim Buzinski Must Reads Gay guide to the Super Bowl Broncos CB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie was […]

Ryan Sanders was a highly regarded young pro rugby player in his native New Zealand who says he never was able to reach his full potential because he was deeply in the closet. Sanders gave an interview to the New Zealand Herald where he detailed his fears of being found out. "I kept it to […]

Seattle vs. Denver, aka the Bud Bowl, featuring "Beast Mode," "Pot Roast," snowy weather, players shirtless, players crying, David Beckham nude, the gay angle and a Super Bowl pick.

Openly gay Australian snowboarder Belle Brockhoff says she will have plenty to say to Russian President Vladimir Putin after her event concludes at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. "After I compete, I'm willing to rip on his ass," she said. "I'm not happy and there's a bunch of other Olympians who are not happy either." […]

Fashion is very subjective, which is a good thing because I can't get behind the uniforms unveiled today by Team USA for the Sochi Winter Olympics. Our friends at Puck Buddys summed up my sentiment: Deadspin called the Ralph Lauren creations "knit patriotic barf." On the other hand, we have the uniforms for the Norwegian […]

Skjellerup posts a YouTube video addressing whether or not he'll be skating in Sochi during the Winter Olympics.

One of the disadvantages of the watching the Winter Olympics are the bulky uniforms most athletes wear since they are competing in cold and snowy conditions. We can thank Justin Kripps, captain of the Canadian four-man bobsled team of posting this photo on Twitter of himself and sledmates Tim Randall, James McNaughton and Bryan Barnett […]

While nobody on the team quite knew how to handle a gay player when Richards came out, the entire Kenyon lacrosse team now again calls him their lax bro.

LeQuan Chapman grew up in a rough neighborhood where "words like 'faggot' and 'gay' were primary in describing all things bad." He discovered sports and became true to himself and is now out and proud.

Jason Collins, Wade Davis, Layshia Clarendon, & Anna Aagenes round out an all-star panel talking about the environment in sports