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Mike Piazza’s ‘straight’ announcement was the first of its kind.

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Sports 2007: NCAA President Myles Brand was an advocate for the rights of LGBT people in college sports. And when he died of cancer in 2009, he was remembered fondly by Helen Carroll, head of the sports program at the National […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Hurling, 2009: Hurling is an unknown sport in the U.S., but it is huge in Ireland, so the coming out of star player Donal Óg Cusack was a milestone for the country. Cusack is the first elite Irish athlete to come […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Multisports, 1992: The Gay Games started in 1982 and had been held in North American cities until 1998. In Europe, the EuroGames were created in 1992 to allow more participation from the continent. The first EuroGames in The Hague, Netherlands, was […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Sports, 1998: Michael Muska remembers how he was less than thrilled by being inadvertently outed by the Chronicle of Higher Education. As he wrote in 2000: A Chronicle reporter had been talking to a former Oberlin College employee and had been […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Tennis, 1993. While she came out of the closet a decade earlier, it was 1993 that a marriage between the tennis legend and the gay community was finally consummated. Throughout 1992 Martina had spoken at length against Colorado’s Amendment 2, which […]

In 2011, Outsports listed 100 important moments in LGBT sports history.

With so much attention on gay-sports issues over the last couple months we at Outsports have started looking at everything that came before it. In our humble opinion, not enough people know the rich history of the gay sports movement that started 40 years ago. To help fix that we're compiling a list of the […]