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The trans MMA fighter has been cleared of accusations that she falsified her Florida license application

A list of players arrested in 2013.

The three groups will work together to elevate the voices of LGBT athletes

Tapes show the Rutgers men's basketball coach using a gay slur, along with hitting players and throwing basketballs at them.

San Diego Chargers great Ron Mix writes about lessons learned as a player and a parent and why it's high time for gay athletes to be embraced.

Harto trades in a penalty shot for the chance to show of his legs

Seattle Seahawks lineman Chris Clemons said last week that if an openly gay player came out this would be "a selfish act" and make the player "bigger than the team." This caused an outcry with some Seahawks fan, yet the organization would not say whether it agreed with Clemons or not. Dominic Holden of the […]

Former Michigan QB and NFL prospect is latest to make inclusive statement

Chris Clemons' comments get more scrutiny, and more and more straight writers talk about out athletes

The NBA legend tells HuffPost Live that he's never met a gay NBA player, but John Amaechi disagrees

Washington Redskin Adam Carriker talks about the probability of a gay NFL player

Sports Illustrated's Swim Daily is an entire section devoted to nearly naked models

Connor Barwin and Chris Kluwe dispute the idea that the NFL won't be able to handle all the attention that will be focused on a gay player.

The out footballer opens up about his childhood, homophobia in sports and his need to work through his own issues right now.

The former NFL player and Stanford Cardinal opens up for the first time about being closeted in football

I have been so used to writing and reading positive, supportive articles about gays in sports, that it's easy to forget that the whole thing still makes a segment of society uncomfortable. It's a shrinking segment, but nonetheless still there. This was brought home when I stumbled across a website called the American Thinker and […]

Wisconsin made history in November by electing the first openly lesbian U.S. senator in Tammy Baldwin. Now, the Milwaukee Wave of the Major Indoor Soccer League has made some history of its own by naming Sue Black its president and chief executive officer. Black joins Golden State Warriors President Rick Welts as the only male […]

Bomani Jones joined me to talk about the possibility of sponsorships for the first out athlete in one of the big pro sports leagues

USA Today article makes the case that Major League Baseball will have the first out gay athlete in the big pro sports