Outsports

Georgia Tech Football Is a Unique Experience

(This story was published in 2003). By: Todd Heustess College sports have been suffering a public relations nightmare this year. The coaching scandals at Washington, Alabama, Georgia and Iowa State combined with the shameful situations at Ohio State, Baylor, Georgia, and Florida State have tainted college sports with a fast-growing malignancy that threatens to turn […]

A soccer player was accepted by his team, but feels the need to hide as a coach

A coming out tale generates support, anger and some odd photos

A gay Penn State rower feeds off others' stories to tell his teammates

Adam Goslin found acceptance on diamond and on football field

(This story was published in 2007). Rene Portland, women’s basketball coach at Penn State for the past 27 years, who claimed she had a “no lesbians” policy on her team, has resigned, effective immediately. Portland submitted her resignation to Tim Curley, Director of Athletics, yesterday evening. Curley said a nationwide search for a new coach […]

Reflections on the Rene Portland - Jen Harris Lawsuit Settlement

National Sports Leaders Gathered to Discuss “Negative Recruiting” at NCAA Headquarters

(This story was published in 2006). By: Silas Rader (Managing Editor, The Spectrum, SUNY Buffalo) Editor’s Note: This article ran originally in the SUNY Buffalo student paper, The Spectrum, March 8, 2006 Log onto the Web site for State University of New York at Buffalo Athletics and on any day you’ll find scores, highlights and […]

Progress Is Still Slow, but More Athletes Are Reaching Out

A Goalie Comes Out and Finds Out Little Has Changed (and That's Good)

'Coming Out Often Felt Like Jumping Off a 30-Foot Cliff into a Deep Pool of Water'

Indiana High School Basketball Star Stays in the Closet, but His Secret Carries a Price

(This story was published in 2002). A 15-year-old California student banned from gym class because she is a lesbian has sued her middle school, alleging discrimination. Ashly Massey, an eighth-grader in Banning, a small community in the Southern California desert, contends she was forced to sit in the principal’s office during physical education class this […]

Female athletes must face lesbian stereotype in so-called masculine sports

Some make sexual orientation an issue during recruiting trips

Some gay athletes at UCLA feel isolated from teammates and coaches on and off the field

Skier: 'I Could Not Approach My Potential as an Athlete if Pieces of Myself Were Scattered'

'I Wasn't Going to Let Some Ignorant Man Mess With My Dreams and Tell Me That I Am Not Worth It '