Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Baseball, 2000. When Danielle Goldey and Meredith Kott went to the Los Angeles Dodgers game on Aug. 8, 2000, they never imagined they’d set off a chain of events that would lead to “gay days” at pro sporting events for years to [...]
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First NHL goal, first NHL kiss
I found this on the Yahoo! Sports blog Puck Daddy. After scoring his first NHL goal (in a 5-1 Washington win over the New Jersey Devils) tonight, Capitals rookie Andrew Gordon skated over to the bench and planted a kiss on the cheek of teammate Marcus Johansson, whose pass set up the goal. Just more [...]
Study: Straight men kissing more often
Eric “Coach Gumby” Anderson, the cross-country-coach-turned-sociologist, recently released a fascinating study showing that homophobia among British teenage boys has become so mellow in many areas that straight boys think nothing of making out with one another. The trend toward male same-sex smooches has skyrocketed in recent years, Anderson said. It began on the professional soccer [...]
Podcast: Gays on kiss cams
With the refusal by the St. Louis Cardinals to show a gay couple on their kiss cam, a debate has again started about whether gay kisses should be allowed on kiss cams at all. We talk about why teams like the Cardinals, who actively pursue money from the gay community, have a responsibility to show [...]
Cardinals take gay money, won’t show us kiss
An estimated 200 people attended the OUT at the Ballpark event at the St. Louis Cardinals game on Saturday. Some had requested the Cardinals feature two same-sex members of their group on the “Kiss cam” for the game. They even played a Cher song (“I Got You Babe,” with Sonny). But the Cardinals refused to [...]
Gay St. Louis fans upset over ‘kiss cam’
Some gay fans are upset over the use of a ‘kiss cam’ at the Rams’ game against the Arizona Cardinals this past Sunday. Now they are hoping to use this Saturday’s “Out at the Ballpark” with the St. Louis Cardinals as a chance for the city’s pro sports teams to redeem themselves. From the St. [...]
Bateman and Hoffman on NBA ‘Kiss-Cam’
If you’ve been to a pro basketball game, you know the “kiss cam” is a popular feature. It’s rare, and in some places forbidden, that you’ll see the cam focus on a gay or lesbian couple. Even at WNBA games, they often shy away from it. So when the kiss cam at Game 1 of [...]
Man chases down shirtless Nadal
Rafael Nadal took a big step toward a career Grand Slam, beating Gael Monfils in four sets to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals. But it was a male fan who took a big step toward Nadal. Shirtless after his victory, Nadal was exiting the court when a fan chased after him, trying to kiss the [...]
The kissing boxer
In a fight last month that was televised on HBO, a boxer with the entertaining name of Trenton Titsworth kissed his opponent, Jesse Vargas, while the two were in a clinch. An angry Vargas threw a punch when the referee broke up the clinch. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfJ91N5dzIE] In Titsworth’s defense, he only kissed Vargas behind the ear [...]
Players kissing? Readers irate
This photo of two Louisville Cardinal basketball players celebrating during a Jan. 6 win over archrival Kentucky has caused a stir for the paper that published it. The photo by Sam Upshaw Jr. showed Jerry Smith hugging Juan Palacios after a big play in the first half. Many readers thought the two players were kissing, [...]
The Gator kiss
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9fcjR-d-7M] I must have been living on the Moon the past few days but I was not aware that Florida safety Tony Joiner kissing quarterback Tim Tebow Saturday was as big of a deal as it is. The gay blog Towleroad linked to at least three Florida papers that talked about it. The Kiss has [...]