Quick Hits

From Israel Folau to Robbie Rogers, here’s our look back on the heroes and the goats of the past week

Portland Timbers and Portland Thorns FC also support marriage-equality initiative in Oregon

Conference will engage the two partners in educational opportunities

Wrestling is back as an Olympic sport through 2024 after making changes to the sport that got it approved by the International Olympic Committee this weekend. Wrestling had been dropped earlier this year and was forced to win a vote for reinstatement starting in 2020. Among the changes will be the way wrestlers are dressed, […]

Japan has mixed record on LGBT issues, but climate is generally favorable. Pride House calls it a "promising choice."

Here is a class that sounds both interesting and pretty hot — students of an anatomy class at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology used an Aussie Rules Football player and painted muscles, tendons and bones over his body to show what they would look like stripped of skin. Zac O'Brien, 22, a chiropractic student […]

NFL superstar Brady is featured in another high-end, stylized ad for the Australian company

The rugger, who has been fighting against bullying for years, appears on the UK's 'Strictly Come Dancing'

Tennis pro Casey Dellacqua of Australia has has come out publicly as a lesbian after announcing her partner Amanda gave birth to their son, Blake Benjamin, three weeks ago. "I think you see a lot of players out on tour with families, and I'm still motivated, and I'll make it work, we'll make it work […]

Jason Akermanis weighs in on the state of homophobia in Aussie Rules Football

The two gay Olympians talk gays and Olympics on The Project Australia

American figure skater Johnny Weir hopes to make the U.S. team for the 2014 Sochi Olympics and said he is willing to get arrested to call attention to anti-gay laws in Russia. "If it takes me getting arrested for people to pay attention, and for people to lobby against this law, then I'm willing to […]

The same Russian ministry of sports who a week ago said Olympians and fans would be subject to the country's new anti-gay laws next year in Sochi, today told everyone to "calm down" and "relax." "I want to ask you to calm down as in addition to this law we have a constitution that guarantees […]

Pro league teams up with LGBT site to offer free tickets

Goldstein will tend goal for Israel against the Iroquois Nationals in Syracuse, Sept. 29

The quarterback's new LA home is nearly big enough to host the white party

A letter urging U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry to ensure the safety of LGBT athletes and fans attending the 2014 Winter OIympics in Sochi, Russia, has been signed by 83 members of Congress. The letter came in response to draconian anti-gay laws that took effect in Russia. Here is the text of the […]

Julie Hermann, the new athletic director at Rutgers University, is a lesbian and the mother of the 7-year-old son. Hermann did not come out in the media, but rather in her official bio posted on the school's website: "Hermann and her partner Dr. Leslie Danehy are the proud parents of a seven-year-old son, Aidan." She […]

Last week, we had an English rugby player taking nude self-pics. This week, we have a rugby player turned gay porn star in Colby Jansen. Is there something about rugby that lends itself to one being uninhibited?The website Nightcharm has a long interview with Jansen (the photos are extremely NSFW, so no link here, but […]

George Burgess is an English-born player in the National Rugby League of Australia, where he plays for the Sydney Rabbitohs. He has a twin brother, Tom, who also plays on the same team and two other brothers — Sam and Luke — who are also ruggers. At 6-5 and 21 years old, George is a […]