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Sabres and Penguins meet in first-ever NHL joint Pride matchup
Pride was on ice in a nationally-televised hockey clash for a cause.
This week’s winners and losers in LGBTQ sports
Every week, our managing editor runs down the big stories of the past seven days.
New Jersey Devils host team’s first Pride Night since pandemic
The NHL team hosted its 5th annual N.J. Devils Pride Night, featuring special jerseys which will be auctioned-off to benefit LGBTQ groups.
Phoenix Suns treat LGBTQ fans to 2021’s first in-person Pride Night in NBA
The honor of hosting 2021’s very first in-person Pride night in the NBA since the pandemic began goes to the Phoenix Suns.
On Deck: Lesbian Pride, Stop AAPI Hate, Stanley Cup and Outed By A Ouija Board
On Deck Circle is a round-up of what’s new in LGBTQ sports news along with today’s social media spotlight.
Winners and losers in LGBTQ sports one year into the pandemic
This week’s list comes one year after the Covid-19 pandemic changed all our lives, and took more than half a million of our friends, family and fellow Americans.
There is hope for minor league Pride Nights in 2021
While MiLB teams are still assembling promotional schedules, more vaccine availability could make Pride Nights happen this summer.
This year’s first list of winners and losers of the week in LGBTQ sports
Here’s a look back at the big Outsports stories of the first week of the new year.
Gay couple, who met at Mets game for Outsports Pride, is now engaged
DJ Slifer and Scottie Winer met over two years ago and will now be planning their future wedding and life together.
Kelly Loeffler’s fate; Trans women reach parity with cis women athletes, says researcher; Talking ‘Trek’
The Huddle is your daily briefing on what’s new in LGBTQ sports news, the latest links and who’s in the social media spotlight.
Check out Kurtis Gabriel’s rainbow Pride flag skates
The San Jose Sharks forward and straight ally showed off the custom skates on his social media Sunday, along with a pair dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Staten Island Yanks sue Yankees and MLB over minor league contraction scheme
Baseball’s best Pride Night uniforms weren’t enough to save the Staten Island Yankees. Now they’re taking the majors to court.
October is LGBTQ History Month, and it’s full of sports history
Outsports is looking back at 31 key moments in LGBTQ sports history all month long.
LGBT sports winners are hot dogs this holiday weekend
A weekly list of stories from the past seven days with the theme of Courage Is Contagious.
Hosting Pride games may reduce anti-gay language used by athletes, per studies
Two studies out of Australia suggest teams that host pro-LGBTQ events experience less homophobic language by players.
Mizzou volleyball’s Dariana Hollingsworth comes out draped in LGBTQ Pride
The University of Missouri senior came out publicly as bisexual Thursday with a tweet.
Sean Doolittle’s LGBTQ outreach should set an example for the rest of baseball
While pro sports waits for stars to pave the way for better Pride participation, Doolittle continues to show MLB how it should be done.
Queer Eye for... Gritty?!
The boys wrap their 5th season of Queer Eye on Netflix with a mock makeover for the Philadelphia Flyers mascot, Gritty.
When Minor League Baseball canceled 2020 season, it postponed 85 Pride Nights
This was shaping up to be MiLB’s best Pride Night season ever. Then 2020 happened.
Nike’s latest BeTrue campaign: ‘This Is Our Time’
In celebration of Pride Month and in an effort to advance equality, Nike honors the Black roots of Pride in its 2020 BeTrue campaign.
This week’s relocked down winners and losers in LGBT Sports
Spikes in the pandemic can’t stop the weekly list of big stories from the past 7 days of LGBTQ sports coverage.
30 Moments of Pride: Brittney Griner’s banner year at Baylor
Baylor University standout Brittney Griner was a three-time All-American, won 2 ESPY awards and was named AP Player of 2012, in addition to Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Final Four.
30 Moments of pride: Elena Delle Donne is 1st WNBA player to earn MVP award with 2 teams
In 2019, Washington Mystics star Elena Delle Donne joined 5 other WNBA players who have multiple MVP trophies, but she’s the only one who earned it playing for 2 teams.
30 Moments of Pride: Bisexual Ireen Wüst wins 5 medals at the Sochi Olympics
The bisexual Dutch speed skater took home more medals than any other athlete at the Sochi games. And she did it in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
LGBTQ ally Sean Doolittle trying out new baseball glove dyed with Pride
The Wilson glove is an experiment, and Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle says he is "so stoked with how it came out."
30 Moments of Pride: Michael Sam records first NFL sack against Packers
At one point during the 2014 NFL preseason, Sam was tied for third in the league in sacks.
30 Moments of Pride: Harrison Browne wins 2nd NWHL Championship
In 2018, trans NWHL player Harrison Browne and his new team won the Isobel Cup Championship.
30 Moments of Pride: Billie Jean King wins ‘The Battle of the Sexes’
If 2020 feels like we’re living through history, just imagine what it was like to attend the 1973 tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King.
How the Red Sox, who were the last team to integrate, became champions of LGBTQ Pride
The Red Sox were planning their biggest Pride Night this season to coincide with Boston Pride’s 50-year anniversary.
Sonya ‘Daddy’ Deville optimistic on positive LGBTQ representation in WWE
Self-dubbed ‘Daddy Deville’ believes a genuine same-sex relationship storyline on WWE programming could come before 2021.
30 Moments of Pride: Caster Semenya awarded 2nd Olympic Gold Medal... PLUS baby news!
The South African track star received her second Gold Medal after the winner of the 2012 Olympic event was stripped of her award for doping.
30 Moments of Pride: Chris Mosier makes Team USA
The transgender All-American duathlete, Hall of Fame triathlete and Olympic trials race walker earned a spot in the men’s 35-39 sprint duathlon world championship in 2015 and competed with Team USA.
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