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Joanna Harper is part of a group looking to study transgender athletes as they transition.

For years out LGBTQ athletes have talked about receiving support from teammates. Now we have the proof.

Outsports is again teaming up with academics to look at the environment facing out LGBTQ athletes in sport, this time in the UK.

A new survey studies the experiences of LGBTQ athletes who have been out on high school or college teams.

Eric Anderson came out as a gay coach in 1993. Since then the dozens of studies he and others have conducted show homophobia in men’s sports evaporating.

Three researchers studied coming-out stories on Outsports. They found a men’s sports world supportive of out gay athletes.

Kelly Holstine says she took a knee in protest during “The Star-Spangled Banner” to stand up for the marginalized and oppressed.

When hockey players in Australia use homophobic language, it drives LGB athletes from the ice.

The very athletes who say they use gay slurs also say they would accept a gay teammate, according to new research.

Researcher wants to examine attitudes in collegiate athletics.

Gay boys half as likely to play sports, study says.

Athletes call themselves ‘allies’ because of their beliefs and actions.

A new international study - Out on the Fields - says 82% of lesbian, gay and bisexual athletes have witnessed or experienced homophobic actions in sports.

A new study says what we have believed for a while: The only effective way to make change for LGBT athletes is for said athletes to come out and share their stories.

Interviews with British athletes confirm what we all know -- guys look and compare, and the bigger the better.

When you were a college athlete and someone asked “What’s so great about college,” would you answer, “playing sports or being with gay friends?” When you were in the locker room was it easy to ignore homophobic discourse and concentrate on ‘being an athlete’ or did anti-gay remarks upset you? These are sample questions from […]

My friend Evan Brody, a doctoral student at the USC School of Communication, is doing some research into getting a better understanding of why people choose to participate in recreational sports. The survey takes about 10 minutes to complete and is anonymous. It would be great if a lot of you took the time take […]

As a public service, we are posting this after being contacted by the UCLA School of Medicine: Researchers at the UCLA School of Medicine are exploring gay men’s experience with gender roles. To participate, you will be asked to complete several psychological questionnaires online. It will take approximately 25–30 minutes to participate. All will be […]

In an article on gay pride week at Dartmouth College, the Ivy League school in New Hampshire, the school paper The Dartmouth interviewed two gay athletes and what they said is not a surprise to anyone who has followed the subject: they wish there were more out jocks. “[Being gay at Dartmouth] has been a […]

That’s the assertion that openly gay sociologist Eric Anderson, whom most of us affectionately know as Coach Gumby (right), makes in a new study. He talked to 47 (apparently masculine) cheerleaders at American universities, all of whom played football in high school. Nineteen of them said they had had sexual contact with another man. All […]