Openly gay and HIV-positive Olympic diving legend Greg Louganis wants to waltz on ABC’s ‘Dancing with the Stars’ next season. Louganis fans have created a Facebook campaign to push the alphabet network to extend an invitation to Louganis, and the campaign is getting some attention. DWTS has been in Louganis’ cross-hairs for a couple years, as [...]
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Racing champ Niki Lauda is homophobic
Niki Lauda was a Formula One champ back in the 1970s and ’80s. Now he says gays shouldn’t dance on TV, which is essentially saying he doesn’t want any dancing on TV (stereotype alert! stereotype alert!). After telling the daily tabloid Oesterreich that he loves gays, he said they’re bad role models for kids: I [...]
More athletes are ‘Dancing with the Stars’
Two-time NFL MVP Kurt Warner is one of the big names announced for the next season of Dancing with the Stars. Arizona Cardinals fans still holding out hope that Warner will come back to the team this season are crying today! Former Boston Celtic and Los Angeles Laker Rick Fox will also hit the dance [...]
Chad Ochocinco, Evan Lysacek on DWTS
ABC has announced the celebrity lineup for the new season of Dancing With The Stars. As usual, it includes people with connections to the world of sports. I have no idea how this will play out on the dance floor (and don’t really care) but I have a couple of observations: It makes perfect sense [...]
Ellen shows (gay) footballers dancing
I was so happy to see the Boston gay football league‘s dance video did finally end up on Ellen. It’s great exposure for gay athletes to be shown having fun on one of daytime’s most popular shows. On the flip side, it’s pretty disappointing that Ellen didn’t mention it’s a GAY flag football league! She [...]
Boston gay football dances all over Beantown
The Boston gay football league sent over a video of some members dancing to Jai Ho, a la the final scene from Slumdog Millionaire. Their hope is that Ellen will take notice and put them on her show. I love that they shot part of it in the subway station with people exiting the train; [...]
Ballet’s trouble attracting American boys
First the Canadians had trouble recruiting boys for figure skating. Now Americans are having trouble recruiting boys for ballet. Or so says a recent article in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Wonder why? You guessed it: The gays. Because ballet is considered feminine, the boys who gravitate toward it are assumed gay by many people. It’s [...]
Wow, the Clippers are terrible
Last night I was treated to suffered through an NBA game between the New Orleans Hornets and the Los Angeles Clippers. It was game number eight of their 82-game schedule. The Timberwolves, Warriors and Grizzlies should be ashamed of themselves for losing to this Clippers team. A couple friends I was with, who don’t watch [...]