Details magazine has a piece about the world of adult cheerleading, and their focus is Cheer New York, a mostly gay cheerleading squad in the Big Apple. I’ve worked with these folks, including Felipe Hernandez whom I can’t say enough good things about, and they are fantastic, always willing to lend a hand to bring [...]
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Is cheerleading a sport?
When Quinnipiac University cut women’s volleyball and kept cheerleading, the volleyball players sued saying it violated Title IX. A judge has agreed, forcing the university to add more women’s sports scholarships. The decision raises the question about whether cheerleading is a sport. My greatest cheerleading memory was at a Stanford-Cal football game. One of the [...]
Gay cheerleader faces discrimination
A gay, mentally challenged, biracial high school student in Eastern Washington, Benjamin Grundy, is being told he cannot perform all of the routines with the girls on the squad. Instead, he’s only allowed to stand there waving his arms. Ben’s mom wrong a very long letter to the Seattle Weekly outlining all of the issues. [...]
Another kind of Dallas Cheerleaders
After that miserable performance by the Cowboys on Sunday, there isn’t much to cheer about in Dallas today. But Dallas Pride Cheer is gearing up for a big gay-sports season, and they’re looking for new cheerleaders to join them. More info after the jump, or email them here. Share on Facebook
Mitcham, Neich named influential Aussies
Australia’s big gay Web site SameSame has released their list of 2009′s most influential gay Aussie, and Matthew Mitcham is one of the highlights. The Olympic gold medalist’s story from 2008 still resonates with people: Openly gay and taking on the Chinese in the pool. Also on the list was Aaron Neich (right, in the [...]
Cheerleaders in trouble for Jesus banners
A Chattanooga, Tenn., area cheerleading team has been ordered to stop printing Bible verses and religious messages on banners at school football games. Since 2003, the Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School team has displayed messages like “Commit to the Lord” and the banner to the right featuring a passage from the Book of Phillippians in the [...]
Teacher fired after field trip to gay strip bar
A what-were-they-thinking? story from Ohio: A Butler County teacher has resigned after she admitted to taking a group of four female students [who are also cheerleaders] to a gay bar in Dayton. Lori Epperson worked for Butler Tech and taught Marketing at Edgewood High School. Share on Facebook
Openly gay cheerleader in Aussie rugby
Meet Aaron Neich, 19, openly gay and the first male cheerleader for the Penrith Panthers rugby team. He was selected at an audition this weekend. One Aussie tab has already dubbed him the “Pink Panther.” He is out, proud and doesn’t care what anyone thinks. “I have had it all my life, I have grown [...]
Court: Cheerleading is a contact sport
Whether cheerleading is a sport at all could be the subject of great debate. But that’s just small potatoes: The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that cheerleading is a contact sport, just like football, and under Wisconsin law, you can’t sue someone for accidental injury in a contact sport. The case was brought by Brittany [...]
Pats cheerleader, penises and swastikas
Oh the blonde jokes that are popping into my head. Caitlin Davis was a New England Patriots cheerleader. Until she and some friends (allegedly) decided to draw penises and swastikas all over the body of someone Davis says she didn’t know, and then (not allegedly) take pictures of her holding a marker over the body [...]