The chart-topping hip-hop duo release video in support of ending homophobia in sports

(This story was published in April 2003). Yet another pitcher in Major League Baseball has a problem with gay people. Todd Jones, a relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies, had some choice words for the Denver Post after a reporter asked the pitcher about the Broadway play, Take Me Out, in which a professional baseball […]

Cubs pitcher apologizes for remarks

Fox Sports columnist, known as "The Big Sexy," thinks the NFL commissioner has an obligation to show stronger support for gay athletes. He also says 15% of the NFL is gay or bisexual.

Tappan Zee High School hockey players get unfair punishment for racy lapse in judgment

Toronto Marlies' Dallas Eakins delivers inspiring speech to gay team

Colorado tight end Nick Kasa says he was asked about his sexual orientation

(This story was published in 2002). Lesbians for Liberty plan a demonstration outside Madison Square Garden this Sunday, August 11, in protest of the New York Liberty’s refusal to honor Lesbian and Gay Pride Month and acknowledge their large lesbian fan base. In a phone call Thursday, a Liberty representative declined protest organizers’ request for […]

(This story was published in 2002). A group of lesbians, fed up with the New York Liberty’s refusal to have a gay pride night, is planning a kiss-in during the Liberty’s Friday night game against Miami at Madison Square Garden. The game will be on ESPN at 7 p.m. (EDT). “Are you tired of the […]

(This story was published in 2007). By: Ross Forman There are two gay umpires in Major League Baseball. Maybe more, but at least two, saysTyler Hoffman, a gay former minor league umpire who has had a face-to-face conversation with one and traded emails with the other. Neither is out, nor expected to come out anytime […]

(This story was published in 2007). By: Ross Forman Dave Pallone has been out of baseball since 1988 and yet the mail still comes on a regular basis. Mostly it’s e-mail correspondence, though he still gets some snail-mail letters, often with autograph requests for some of the umpire cards he appeared on in the 1980s. […]

Phillies Allow Anti-Gay Sign to Be Unfurled During Game

(This story was published in 2003). With the Major League Baseball season about to get underway, former professional umpire Tyler Hoffman took some time with Cyd Zeigler to reflect on his years in pro baseball and tell us about his latest project. Tyler lives with his partner of three years, Randy Lauzon, in Vancouver. Tyler […]

Pitcher Pulls a Piazza and Declares He's Not Gay

(This story was written in 2005). On April 10, Cincinnati Reds relief pitcher Joe Valentine told a New York newspaper that he was raised by two moms. The world yawned. And that is ultimately a good thing. Valentine, from Long Island, N.Y., was the subject of a lengthy article in Newsday about being raised by […]

The distracting steroid scandal presents a golden opportunity for a gay baseball player to come out of the closet

(This story was published in 2001). Williams, Sacramento Kings guard, was fined $15,000 in March for making ethnic and gay slurs at a Golden State Warriors’ fan during a Feb. 28 game. The player said the fan, Michael Ching, called him a “skinhead” and “racist,” charges Ching denied. According to the Sacramento Bee, the third-year […]

ocal groups and individuals spearhead a new trend at baseball parks

(This story was published in 2004). Nearly three-quarters of Major League Baseball players surveyed said they wouldn’t be bothered by having a gay teammate, according to a poll by the Tribune newspapers. Tribune, which owns the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and the Chicago Tribune among others, surveyed most of pro baseball’s 750 players on a […]

(This story was published in 2001). By Randy Boyd One in Ten. Most of us have heard of this stat when it comes to estimating the number of gay men lurking about the population. But did you know that the figure is based on a survey done way back in 1938 AD? That’s right. One […]