You are under no obligation to suit anyone but yourselves. Instead, you appease.

If the white lesbian outsider wants a different editorial focus, she can start her own site. Actually, she already did that, so what’s her problem?

Fundamentally, there is nothing wrong with whites or masculinity in sport. Anybody who’s got a problem with that needs to be told the Web is a very big place.

We have never ignored any out athlete, but with two of us running the site, we miss things and depend on reader tips. If you know of any out athlete we have not written about, please let us know.

We want Equal rights not a separate state where one superior athlete can beat up on lesser ones in what some would call a “Recreational league”! We play sports for a challenge and we reporting on these issues the NCAA and male dominated sports seem to be far behind the Female sports. It’s a clear point Lesbians are many times more likely in the sports based only on my relationships to be excepted by the School that they compete for. It is the idea that Masculinity in females is sometimes admired by the Male teams although I did see many of the lesbians have issues with other females but that’s most women in general that express a hard time relating to other females all together for what ever reason.

Male athletes can see lesbians as “one of them” Free to make remarks about women and other issues that do not concern sports. I found that even with the football friends and wrestling friends that do know about me they would say what ever came to mind and many found it just easier to stay clear friendships all together. I remember a teammate making calls to my cell all the time about wanting to tick my ass, although I knew on the field I was better than him and even found myself beating him down many time, but it was the idea that coaches and other players even when told would do nothing.

Minorities in sports are not represented in a fair manor, but how can they be when many are as scared as I am about the rejection that would come from teammates, coaches, and staff. The individual could be loved and even respected for the athletic part; when it comes down to it the schools and the universities must make it a non issue and prove that zero tolerance will be in effect when athletes are harassed about any issues outside of the actual athletics. I for one feel that if you mess up on the court fine so be it you had control over that but if you so happen to do something outside the sports field and the universities or teams then try to target your sexuality then it should be addressed in any other manor not just the idea that “ you’re a fag you got what’s coming to you” mindset

So why can’t there exist gay male counterparts? Lacking representation of different races and ethnicities? Refer Outsports to someone willing to contribute. It still remains that communities of color complain about outreach but rarely offer the resources/suggestions themselves. If you have no out athletes of colors taking inititative to broaden the picture and add to the tapestry of this online community, there’s only so much the editors can do.

The only criticism that does strike me as resonant is the need for more feature pieces. Local gay sports scenes, teams, interviews, coverage of gay games. There are many sites to cover pro/college sports; there are nearly no satisfactory sites to cover gay leagues and the lives of gay athletes.

I try to include athletics in my life, but I still feel I could take it to a different level. I would like to see in Outsports resources and vignettes about being in gay leagues, how to approach athletics as a rookie (some of us do often feel as outsiders).

Oh, and speaking of lack of voices, Patricial Nell Warren is a contributor to this site, and her contributions are one of the most thorough and prominently featured in this site.

P.S. Referring to male nudity with puritan disaproval is not a way to endear yourself to gay male readers. If you don’t understand male sexuality, fine, skip over the pictures. But to pretend we have to sanitize the place of well-natured eye candy in order to not offend your lesbian eyes reeks of the rhetoric used by straight people to justify their dislike for gay PDA and media representation.

The Web’s a big place. Start an alternative site and prove Outsports wrong.

I commend Cyd and Jim for doing what they can, but in the end it boils down to the bloggers that come on here.

as far as featuring lesbians, eh, i say no thanks. is it any shock that women in sports are gay? that’d be like finding a gay male in the world of design or modeling, no big whoop. besides as the recent poll showed it isn’t anything we are clamoring for here.