Annenberg Institute of Sports, Media & Society presents three days of conversation about the intersection of the media, sports & the LGBT community

A roundup of gay sports news includes a title fight loss for boxer Orlando Cruz; the USOC acts on gay discrimination and a thoughtful piece on what it means for Jason Collins to be unsigned. Openly gay boxer Orlando Cruz knocked out by Orlando Salido | Other Sports | Sports | Calgary SunPuerto Rico's Orlando […]

David Kopay, Jason Collins, Brendon Ayanbadejo, Billy Bean and Kirk Walker joined other Angelenos Tuesday night in support of Olympic speed skater Blake Skjellerup

Openly gay NBA player Jason Collins still has not had a team sign him. And Gay Bowl XIII kicks off in Phoenix. We're there!

Amnesty International and GO! Athletes rallied to support LGBT Olympic athletes and Russian citizens

Add U.S. women's soccer player Abby Wambach to the list of openly LGBT athletes. Wambach married her girlfriend, fellow soccer player Sarah Huffman, this weekend in Hawaii, TMZ reports. Multiple sources confirm … Abby and pro soccer player Sarah Huffman swapped "I dos" on Saturday at the Villas at Po'ipu Kai on the island of […]

Conference will engage the two partners in educational opportunities

Update (original story below): Detroit Lions center Dominic Raiola will not be suspended for his hate-filled rant against the University of Wisconsin band, but will make a donation to the group and apologized: “My interaction with the Wisconsin Marching Band was inappropriate,” Raiola said, via Tim Twentyman of the Lions’ website. “I apologize to those […]

Three finalist cities -- Limerick, London & Paris -- remain in the running to host Gay Games X

Derek Schell, the first openly gay NCAA Division II basketball player sees his excitement renewed after coming out to his teammates and coaches. "Sometimes the darkest times in life are only doorways to the best moments of your life."

University of Mississippi officials are investigating charges that members of the football team used gay slurs and disrupted a performance of "The Laramie Project," which deals with the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard. Matthew's mother Judy reacted with sadness and anger. She gave a terrific interview to Greg Couch of Fox Sports: "Someone learned to […]

Openly gay pro soccer player Anton Hysen wants gay athletes to come out, but he says there is 'so much ignorance.' Another soccer player apologizes for anti-gay tweet. And Craig James is speaking at a conservative summit.

Members of the University of Mississippi football team were the instigators of a group of people who shouted "fag" and other slurs while disrupting a campus performance of a play about Matthew Shepard, the play's director said. One player later apologized to the cast, but this was characterized as "too little, too late," according to […]

U.S. gymnast Sam Mikulak is a bundle of nervous energy as he prepares to compete at the World Artistic Gymnastic Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. U.S. Gymanstics compiled this video of Mikulak, 20: Hat tip to Instinct.

The German Winter Olympics team unveiled its uniforms in Dusseldorf this week, prompting one newspaper to label them "a cross between a pot-bellied pig and a parrot." Others saw the rainbow in them, suggesting they were a protest against Russia's anti-gay laws. Not so, the German Olympic committee said. The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), […]

"I realize a lot of eyeballs will be on me when I do get the opportunity, and I will be ready for that," Collins says.

"I was gay but was unable to face it until I got to college."

Wagner speaks out at U.S. Olympic gathering, while Lysacek is in the majority who refuse to take a stand.

The bad boy of downhill skiing speaks strongly in support of the LGBT community

Plus, our thoughts on Mark Kari's powerful column about contracting ALS