This week’s LGBT sports winners and losers
Each week, Outsports’ managing editor selects the heroes and goats from the past seven days of LGBT sports coverage.
By Dawn Ennis | August 31, 2019Each week, Outsports’ managing editor selects the heroes and goats from the past seven days of LGBT sports coverage.
By Dawn Ennis | August 31, 2019Transgender runner, University of Montana student Juniper Eastwood, recently became the first out trans Division I competitor in the sport — here’s her story.
By Daniel Villarreal | August 30, 2019Ryan Russell wants to land back in the NFL. Being his true self is now paramount for his life’s next chapter.
By Cyd Zeigler | August 29, 2019The Evo champion raised over $22,000 for The Trevor Project while playing fighting games for 72 hours.
By Brian C. Bell | August 29, 2019The 7 gay or bi college football players compete in various divisions and include a player who had a historic touchdown.
By Jim Buzinski | August 29, 2019The U.S. Open hosted its very first Pride, and out tennis player Nick Lee was there to ask: where are the other gay men?
By Nick Lee | August 28, 2019“My Life On the Line” details O’Callaghan’s struggle to be himself in a world he felt wouldn’t accept him, and how it almost cost him his life
By Ken Schultz | August 27, 2019Billie Jean King called the late tennis great Althea Gibson “Our Jackie Robinson.”
By Karleigh Webb | August 27, 2019130 people had signed up to take part in the Queer Olympix in Istanbul, Turkey, but then organizers were met with police water cannons and riot vehicles.
By Daniel Villarreal | August 27, 2019Lesbian soccer pro and U.S. Women’s team co-captain Megan Rapinoe discusses her coming out, her spat with President Trump and her conservative parents.
By Daniel Villarreal | August 26, 2019Our managing editor looks at how personally fans respond to the personal decisions players make.
By Dawn Ennis | August 25, 2019Each week, Outsports’ managing editor selects the heroes and goats from the past seven days of LGBT sports coverage.
By Dawn Ennis | August 24, 2019Katie McCabe and Ruesha Littlejohn of Ireland say they were accepted without question. So why won’t gay men footballers come out?
By Dawn Ennis | August 23, 2019Letting non-binary and gender-neutral runners compete is a great start for Scotland’s Great Run. Not awarding them prizes or official rankings is a let down.
By Daniel Villarreal | August 23, 2019After years of hiding, CrossFit athlete Alec Smith says he’s gay and has never been happier.
By Jim Buzinski | August 22, 2019Ryan Hines never thought he could be gay and work in NASCAR. He said reading Outsports helped him realize “I could be myself and still do what I love.”
By Dawn Ennis | August 22, 2019Dominique “SonicFox” McLean’s 48 to 72 hour Twitch stream, which starts on August 23, will benefit at least three LGBTQ charities.
By Brian C. Bell | August 22, 2019Nathan Matthews has thrived as a coach, player and student since coming out as gay. And he met his boyfriend on the team.
By Jim Buzinski | August 22, 2019A record 70+ MiLB teams have hosted Pride Nights this season, and now the Staten Island Yankees will do it in rainbow style.
By Dawn Ennis | August 21, 2019A Coors Field employee cited stadium policy against ‘not appropriate’ PDA when she spotted the women ‘casually’ kissing. Their tweets got them an apology and free tickets.
By Ken Schultz | August 21, 2019