LGBTQ guide to the Major League Baseball season
A co-founder of LGBTQ baseball groups on Facebook previews all 30 MLB teams, with a surprise champion.
By Paul D. Sanders | April 1, 2021A co-founder of LGBTQ baseball groups on Facebook previews all 30 MLB teams, with a surprise champion.
By Paul D. Sanders | April 1, 2021On Opening Day, it feels like MLB needs more humanity. And an active player coming out would provide that very quality.
By Ken Schultz | April 1, 2021Andrew Maraniss’s new biography places Glenn Burke in his proper trailblazing context and shows how 1970s-era baseball conspired against him.
By Ken Schultz | March 16, 2021The New York Times bestselling author Andrew Maraniss wrote a new biography of Glenn Burke, the first openly gay player in MLB.
By Outsports | March 1, 2021Dale Scott didn’t plan on his coming up affecting so many lives for the better. But doing so as an active umpire made him a national story and earned him numerous fans.
By Ken Schultz | February 26, 2021Over two decades, Lee has witnessed baseball becoming more LGBTQ friendly. Now, through D-backs for Change, she’s helping the game embrace our community even more.
By Ken Schultz | February 24, 2021Current sexual harassment revelations should inspire us to keep demand MLB’s ensure a better game for all marginalized groups — including LGBTQ fans.
By Ken Schultz | February 18, 2021Every day in February, Outsports marked Black History Month by highlighting the contributions of Black, out LGBTQ sports athletes.
By Dawn Ennis | February 1, 2021Events on the world stage have overshadowed these last seven days of LGBTQ sports.
By Dawn Ennis | January 23, 2021Aaron will forever be associated with home runs and social justice. When those two worlds collided, with society at its ugliest, he persevered and emerged a hero.
By Ken Schultz | January 23, 2021Sexual harassment has no place in baseball or any workplace, and believe me: if queer women want to see your dick pics, we’ll ask.
By Dawn Ennis | January 19, 2021With the LGBTQ community being represented in so many aspects of sports, the lack of out play-by-play voices is striking.
By Ken Schultz | January 14, 2021Lasorda and Miñoso are baseball legends from the same era. But while Minnie learned how to love his son, Tommy remained stuck in the past.
By Ken Schultz | January 12, 2021It’s a new year! Unfortunately, Some of 2020’s worst problems followed us into 2021, like the dearth of out pro male athletes. A New Year’s message from the managing editor.
By Dawn Ennis | January 1, 2021The sweeping changes to MiLB affect teams with successful inclusion efforts.
By Karleigh Webb | December 17, 2020Dropping the Indians nickname is a good sign for inclusion of all marginalized groups — including the LGBTQ community.
By Ken Schultz | December 15, 2020Thom Brennaman has been hired to announce baseball in the Roberto Clemente League in Puerto Rico.
By Dawn Ennis | December 10, 2020Baseball’s best Pride Night uniforms weren’t enough to save the Staten Island Yankees. Now they’re taking the majors to court.
By Ken Schultz | December 7, 2020Dave Kopay is the latest retired gay male athlete to ask why there aren’t more openly gay players in elite team sports.
By Alex Reimer | December 4, 2020Two days after Dodgers legend Tommy Lasorda was discharged from a hospital in Orange County, Calif., he died at his home in Fullerton, Calif. His son, Tom Jr., died of complications related to AIDS in 1991.
By Dawn Ennis | November 16, 2020