CNN airs gay rodeo special this Sunday
CNN airs a special on the gay rodeo, hosted by Lisa Ling. Get your chaps ready.
By Ben Larison | November 5, 2014CNN airs a special on the gay rodeo, hosted by Lisa Ling. Get your chaps ready.
By Ben Larison | November 5, 2014'The McCarthys,' a new CBS show about a sports-obsessed Boston family, goes purple and asks for others to support Spirit Day.
By Cyd Zeigler | October 7, 2014Sports cameraman Scott Winer has worked America’s biggest sports. He opens up about being gay, his dream job in the pros and years of dealing with sexual assault.
By Scott A. Winer | September 17, 2014DirecTV aired the commercial featuring a gay couple during the Packers-Seahawks game on NBC.
By Cyd Zeigler | September 5, 2014Ian Thorpe will again answer questions about his sexual orientation, this time from Michael Parkinson.
By Cyd Zeigler | July 8, 2014FIFA controls the international audio and video feed, which continues to carry the gay slur. ESPN and Univision choose not to mute or bleep the audio when the gay slur is chanted.
By Cyd Zeigler | June 29, 2014ESPN broadcast Mexican fans chanting the gay slur "puto" during their country's World Cup match against Croatia on Monday. The network claims it uses FIFA's audio feed.
By Outsports | June 23, 2014Michael Sam Visa commercial reflects the character of a hard-working, driven future NFL player.
By Cyd Zeigler | May 8, 2014A male rower and a female competitive cheerleader wade through the waters of coming out to their friends, family and teams.
By Cyd Zeigler | May 1, 2014TJ Quinn and Bob Ley revisit the 1999 coming out of Corey Johnson, who was the first high school football captain we know of to come out as gay to his team.
By Cyd Zeigler | April 26, 2014Fallon Fox sits down with HBO's Real Sports with Bryan Gumbel and gives insights into her personal and professional life she hasn't shared before.
By Cyd Zeigler | April 21, 2014NFL Films decided to produce the documentary on Smith in large part because he was gay in hopes of creating a push to get him into the Hall Of Fame.
By Cyd Zeigler | January 20, 2014Two non-American stations will tell the stories of various gay and lesbian athletes, and the struggles they have faced, starting Saturday.
By Cyd Zeigler | January 10, 2014Gay men in sports were a hot topic on television in the last week
By Cyd Zeigler | January 8, 2014If you're a gay athlete struggling with your sexual orientation or coming out, MTV wants you
By Cyd Zeigler | September 11, 2013The rugger, who has been fighting against bullying for years, appears on the UK's 'Strictly Come Dancing'
By Cyd Zeigler | September 2, 2013The It Gets Better project produced a fantastic, heartfelt full-length special that premiered on MTV earlier this year. It chronicled the stories of three young people in the LGBT community who struggled with some form of coming out or repression. Now they’re producing a second special and they want you to be featured! If you're […]
By Cyd Zeigler | July 2, 2012“Top Shot,” the History Channel reality show about marksmen, is seeking new contestants for its fourth season. The deadline to apply is May 20. This is the second time the show's producers contacted Outsports, since they would like a gay or lesbian marksman to make the cut, and they got a good response the last […]
By Jim Buzinski | May 4, 2011MTV’s The Real World takes a handful of twentysomethings and gives them a platform, and these kids believe what they have to say deserves to be heard by everybody. The latest example is Mike Manning, the resident gay/bi jock/eye-candy on air now in the show’s season 374, shot in D.C. Mike’s a tough guy who […]
By Cyd Zeigler | December 31, 2009I’ve never seen So You Think You Can Dance, but ballroom dancing is considered a sport by at least the Gay Games and Outgames. It was at the latter in Montreal that I first saw same-sex ballroom dancing, and I thought it was really wonderful. Last night on SYTYCD, America got a glimpse of two […]
By Cyd Zeigler | September 17, 2009