Thanks again to our friends at VGLMen, the latest issue of the UK’s Attitude magazine is out, and Aussie rugger Nick Youngquest is nearly naked on the cover, wearing a VERY small bikini swimsuit! Interesting that Youngquest would pose for cover of The Sex Issue for a gay-men’s magazine. Interesting and cool, especially since VGL [...]
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Shaq gets shifty over gay kiss
Make of it what you will, but Shaq was on Conan O’Brien’s show last night along with actor Demetri Martin. When talk turned to Martin’s gay character in the upcoming film Taking Woodstock, Shaq carressed Martin’s shoulder. But when Martin began to describe his onscreen gay kiss, Shaq reacted a little differently. How do you [...]
Stephon Marbury starring in ‘gay porn’
Since rejecting an offer to stay with the Boston Celtics for the 2009-10 season, Stephon Marbury has been broadcasting his descent into insanity for all to see, thanks to YouTube and UStream and USoCrazy…. Wizards center Brendan Haywood wondered aloud what I’m sure plenty of other players and fans have been thinking…
At first it was [...]
Team DC’s 2009 scholarship winner
Washington DC’s gay Metro Weekly had a nice article last week about the recipient of Team DC’s 2009 student-athlete scholarship. In its second year, the scholarship goes to a self-identified gay athlete. This year’s winner was swimmer and tennis player Clayton Miller (right, with one of last year’s winners Michael Hull) from Wakefield High School. [...]
Brian Boitano hosts the gayest show on TV
In one of the stranger TV pairings I can remember, former figure skater Brian Boitano will host a coooking show (called What Would Brian Boitano Make?) on The Food Network premiering later this month. Afterelton’s Michael Jensen tried to talk to Boitano after receiving press materials and again at the TV Critics Tour. Both times, [...]
E. Lynn Harris told closeted sports stories
Jim and I were both out of town when author E. Lynn Harris passed away a couple weeks ago, so I wanted to circle back and make sure we recognized him here. He was on tour for his new book, “Basketball Jones”, when he collapsed of a heart attack in Beverly Hills at age 54. [...]
Serbian gays asking FIFA for help
Some gay people in Belgrade, Serbia, are calling in FIFA to help curb soccer-based homophobic graffiti in the city. Messages advocating the murder of gays (the one to the right reads: “Death to faggots”), and signed by fans of Serbian soccer groups (South Gate is a group of Serbian fans), is apparently abundant in the [...]
Gay skydivers convention this weekend
If you’re anywhere near Philadelphia this weekend, you may want to head out to Williamstown, N.J., where Rainbow Skydivers are holding only their second event ever. The event is being held at Cross Keys Airport about 20 miles outside Philly. The first event was held three years ago at the Outgames, and you can see [...]
Clinton Portis again declares he’s not gay
There he goes again. Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis, the NFL’s one-stop shop for crazy press conferences, has again declared that he’s not gay: Despite the fact that no one in the press had asked him. He was responding to a question about his recently dyed hair. My guess is he’d heard so much [...]
Gay Olympic silver medalist has died
Gay Olympic silver medalist Mark Leduc has died at the age of 47. He won his Olympic medal for Canada in boxing in 1992. He was apparently found dead in a sauna, and the assumption is that he died of heat stroke: A strange way to go for someone who made his career knowing the [...]
Mitcham does not medal in 10M diving final
Matthew Mitcham misfired on his final dive and finished out of the medals in the 10-meter platform event at the FINA world swimming and diving championships in Rome. This was the same event where the openly gay Aussie shocked the world last year at the Olympics by winning the gold with a sensational final dive.
Mitcham [...]
How hetero are you on Twitter?
Via Deadspin I came across this silly yet addicting application from Stockholm Pride that analyzes a Twitter name and determines how heterosexual the person is based on certain keywords in their feeds. At least in Outsports’ case, it’s pretty accurate — we are listed as being 1% hetero.
I was a bit thrown off though when [...]
Gay boxers in Manhattan
Out magazine again dips a toe into sports with this month’s article about gay boxers in Manhattan, “Cinderella Men.” There is some good color on the atmosphere of the featured Down Low boxing gym in New York and the boxers who venture there. There is also lots of focus on stereotypical gay behavior by the [...]
Athletes stay closeted for the golden ticket
Sports columnist Dave Zirin (right) is the latest to tackle the “why aren’t there any openly gay pro athletes” question in a new column that appeared a couple weeks ago in the San Francisco Chronicle. No new ground broken, though I did like how he plainly put the issue in a few quick sentences:
They have [...]
Alleged NFL player on DownLow site
MediaTakeOut is best-known for posting blind items about celebrities with virtually no evidence whatsoever. So when I saw that they posted pictures from the gay profile of an NFL player, I was dubious: And when I saw they blocked out the face of the alleged player and there was absolutely no identifying features of his [...]
