Brazilian trans volleyball star Tifanny Abreu starts a new season on top with championship
The Outsports Triumph Award winner’s dominant run ended with a Paulista Championship for her new team
By Karleigh Webb | October 19, 2021The Outsports Triumph Award winner’s dominant run ended with a Paulista Championship for her new team
By Karleigh Webb | October 19, 2021When the NCAA opened competition to transgender student-athletes in 2011, Edelmann was among the first to play
By Karleigh Webb | October 18, 2021Haleigh Washington has already earned her gold Olympic medal with Team USA. It’s time she was given her flowers too.
By Shelby Weldon | September 23, 2021Out athletes are very rare in China. ‘She’s my everything,’ the volleyball player wrote in a post on a popular website.
By Jim Buzinski | September 16, 2021Team USA Sitting Volleyball proved to be champion allies when Matthews’ husband transitioned. Now they’re two- time Paralympic winners as well.
By Ken Schultz | September 5, 2021Teammates rally around Olympic volleyballer Ebrar Karakurt after she is compelled to take down photo with her girlfriend.
By Jim Buzinski | August 17, 2021Douglas Souza is proud to be an openly gay athlete while having a blast on Instagram and on the court.
By Jim Buzinski | July 22, 2021Nathan Matthews heads back to Wittenberg University, where he thrived as an openly gay volleyball player.
By Jim Buzinski | June 10, 2021The first trans woman to play in the elite Brazil Superliga is the first trans woman athlete to be featured in a major ad campaign.
By Karleigh Webb | April 23, 2021The Sports Equality Foundation hosted a discussion of inclusion on TIkTok with trans athletes Mack Beggs, CeCé Telfer and Chris Mosier as well as lesbian former pro volleyball player Brooke Rundle and elite biathlete and straight ally Lucy Hochschartner.
By Dawn Ennis | March 28, 2021The Triumph Awards, in partnership with NCLR, honor pro volleyball pioneer Tifanny Abreu. The first transgender player in Brazil’s Superliga is a winner on the floor and a force for the community off of it.
By Karleigh Webb | March 26, 2021Fry’s experience as a volleyball player and coach fuel her drive for inclusion in sports.
By Karleigh Webb | February 4, 2021Justin Lui says he’s cherishing the final weeks he’ll spend with his teammates, and is enraged at Stanford’s decision to cut the program.
By Alex Reimer | December 24, 2020Arsenault says his coming out as a college volleyball player made him ready to help the next generation move forward.
By Karleigh Webb | October 29, 2020The Huddle is your daily briefing on what’s new in LGBT sports news, the latest links and who’s in the social media spotlight.
By Dawn Ennis | October 15, 2020This trans volleyball official upholds the law on the court and wants to help make better laws for her community in Alberta.
By Karleigh Webb | October 11, 2020The Huddle is your daily briefing on what’s new in LGBT sports news, the latest links and who’s in the social media spotlight.
By Dawn Ennis | September 2, 2020The University of Missouri senior came out publicly as bisexual Thursday with a tweet.
By Brian C. Bell | August 31, 2020A victim of the unemployment crisis caused by the pandemic, Morgan Dalziel returned home to coach high school girls’ volleyball and make a plan for his future.
By Dawn Ennis | August 17, 2020Finley retired in December after leading Seattle University’s women’s volleyball program for seven seasons, capping off a 21-year collegiate coaching career.
By Brian C. Bell | July 13, 2020