Month: May 2015

With various out players and a head coach, the Swedish and American women's soccer teams were the most publicly out of any in the Women's World Cup in Canada. All told, 18 participants were out as lesbian, gay, bisexual or otherwise.

Out gay coach Kirk Walker is joined by two athletes from the Fearless project on the UCLA Bruins team at the Women's College World Series.

Clemson University football coach Dabo Swinney caused controversy this week when he was to be honored by a South Carolina lobbying group opposed to gay rights and same-sex marriage. A petition was started urging him to cancel and he did on his own days later, saying he didn't want to be a distraction and did […]

Tanner Williams, a pole vaulter and now happily married, shares his story of his successful coming out with a straight ally.

The coach said he has no association with the group and didn't want appearance to be a distraction.

"I guess my biggest hope to get out of this is to make it clear that this should not change the perception you may have already had about me. I'm just your average guy, still the exact same person you all knew in 1st period this morning."

Dabo Swinney, the head football coach at Clemson, will help the anti-gay Palmetto Family Council raise money at a June 2 event in Columbia, S.C. GLAAD and others are calling for him to back out.

Frameline 39 will bring various sports films to San Francisco in June. Outsports is co-presenting two pieces: 'Out To Win' and the short queer sports film program, 'Score!'

The U.S. soccer star wants to add one title that has eluded her -- World Cup.

Warren Hall was removed from his post at Seton Hall after he posted a Facebook message supporting the anti-bullying message of the NOH8 campaign. Now he opens up for the first time since his removal, coming out publicly as gay.

CFL team has his No. 94 jersey already online.

The Montreal Alouettes got the rights to Sam through the 2014 CFL Negotiation List. Only one other CFL team wanted his rights - both Winnipeg and Edmonton did not want him.

Michael Sam is playing for the Montreal Allouettes of the Canadian Football League this season.

It's a different game up north and that might play best to Sam's strengths as a pass rusher.

Michael Sam will play for the Montreal Allouettes of the Canadian Football League this season.

To get you in the mood for the start of the summer season, check out these dudes in the pool.

This week the anti-gay practices of Seton Hall and LeTourneau University have come under fire. At what point will other members of the NCAA speak up against this discrimination?

Banner mocks homophobia awareness day in Bosnia, while Italian soccer official says women in sport 'bunch of lesbians.'

Drew Allensworth grew up in rural Oklahoma thinking he could never come out. Now he's been accepted by his fraternity and athletic department at the Univ. of Oklahoma.

Billy Bean, the former Los Angeles Dodger who came out publicly as gay over 15 years ago, finally put on that uniform again and swung the bat for The Boys in Blue.