Over the last few years we’ve been very pleased to see GLAAD recognize the increasing LGBT work done in sports with multiple sports-related nominees for their media awards. This year, as far as we can tell only one of the 151 nominees is directly related to sports: ESPN’s segment on Kye Allums. What makes that [...]
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Will Sheridan releases new music video for ‘Set Fire to the Streets’
Openly gay former Villanova basketball player Will Sheridan has release a new music video in anticipation of his debut album release in February. His music name is actually W!ll Sheridan; You can read more about him at his blog. The remix of ‘Set Fire to the Streets’ by Great Tiger is pretty damn good! I can absolutely [...]
Video: Anderson Cooper talks with Kye Allums
A few weeks ago, Anderson Cooper featured transgender youth on his program. For the last few minutes of the show he chatted via Webcam with trans former George Washington basketball player Kye Allums. Allums talked about his struggles being accepted, particularly by his mother. Video after the jump. Allums comes in at minute 36:00. Share [...]
St. Michael’s College athletics teams combine for awesome It Gets Better video
This is cool — players from the men’s and women’s basketball teams, men’s hockey team and tennis team have combined to produce an It Gets Better video for St. Michael’s College in Vermont. One of the editors of the video is Brian Healey, captain of the Purple Knights men’s tennis team, who says this: I’m [...]
St. John’s basketball fans called out for anti-gay chants at game
New York Post columnist Lenn Robbins has a great column slamming St. John’s Univesity college basketball fans for their use of gay slurs during last weekend’s game against the University of Arizona. I didn’t find anything clever about the St. John’s fans in the student section that were chanting “U of Gay” as a mocking [...]
Director: Joe Paterno had his hands in the Rene Portland scandal, too
Editor’s note: Fawn Yacker is director of the award-winning film ‘Training Rules,’ about homophobia in Penn State’s women’s basketball program. She is currently working on a project about homophobia in men’s pro sports. Joe Paterno describes the current “tragedy” at Penn State as “…one of the great sorrows of my life.” He should add to [...]
Kye Allums, Steve Buckley, Jared Max make for sportiest Out100 ever
We can’t remember an Out100 list that included so many athletes and people from the sports world. We already reported on Gareth Thomas’ inclusion on the list. Today the magazine revealed the names of three more: Sports columnist Steve Buckley of the Boston Herald; ESPN radio host Jared Max; and former college basketball player Kye [...]
Pat Summit, winningest coach in NCAA history, has dementia
She’s one of the lightning rods of women’s sports with a tough coaching style and lots of national championships. But no matter what side of the fence you’re on, your heart has to feel for Pat Summit. The legendary Tennessee Lady Vols coach announced this week that she suffers from the early onset of dementia [...]
Moment #44: Kye Allums comes out
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. College basketball, 2010. When Kye Allums contacted Outsports in the spring of 2010, he was afraid of the repercussions of coming out as the first publicly out transgender male playing women’s college basketball. Other trans athletes like Keelin Godsey had come [...]
Moment #47: Penn State fires women’s basketball coach Rene Portland
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. College basketball, 2007: Rene Portland had a simple rule during her 27 years as Penn State’s women’s basketball team — no lesbians were allowed. Finally, in 2007, after the culmination of a lawsuit by former player Jen Harris and fought by [...]
Moment #80: Sherri Murrell becomes first-ever publicly out coach in Div. 1 basketball
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Basketball, 2009: There are other lesbians coaching college basketball but Sherri Murrell is the only one who is open. Murrell coaches at Division 1 Portland State and she has had great success, taking her team to the NCAA’s in 2010 and [...]
Moment #87: Jen Harris sues Penn State
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Basketball, 2005: Harris was kicked off Penn State’s basketball team in 2005 by coach Rene Portland, who accused her of being a lesbian. Portland had a long history of homophobia, claiming she would not have lesbians on her team. In December [...]
Outsports wins NLGJA award; LZ Granderson named Journalist of the Year
It’s been quite a year for sports, and Outsports has certainly benefited. After Jim’s piece on Hudson Taylor was nominated for a GLAAD Award, now my piece on Kye Allums has won third place for the NLGJA Award for online journalism. The Allums piece was a project of passion for me, and it ignited a [...]
College basketball player John Bohannon tweets: ‘It is NOT cool to be gay’
University of Texas-El Paso college basketball player John Bohannon got himself in trouble when he tweeted: “#letsbereal it is NOT cool to be gay! (Zro voice) *jordan shrug*.” Bohannon was apparently reacting to the public service announcement aired during the NBA playoffs where Grant Hill and Jared Dudley of the Phoenix Suns said it was [...]
Will Sheridan releases new video, “302″
Former Villanova basketball player Will Sheridan came out publicly as gay last week, and in his Outsports interview he talked about the passion he has for his music. His recent video “Welcome to the Jungle” has gotten a lot of YouTube play. Sheridan has released his latest music vide, “302,” named for the area code [...]