A Croatian court has thrown out one of two lawsuits claiming homophobia against Croatian soccer president Vlatko Markovic. Two gay-rights groups brought lawsuits against Markovic last year when he said gay players wouldn’t be on the country’s national team because “only healthy people play football.” Legally, Croatia is one of the friendliest Eastern European countries [...]
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Braves coach Roger McDowell accused of homophobia by Gloria Allred and Justin Quinn
Atlanta Braves pitching coach Roger McDowell has apologized for his response to heckling fans in San Francisco on Easter. The apology was spurred by accusations by Justin Quinn of Fresno, Calif., that McDowell threatened Quinn with a baseball bat and made homophobic remarks. It’s a strange situation, and it’s hard to believe everything Quinn is [...]
Open lesbian Hawaiian Supreme Court judge Sabrina Shizue McKenna was basketball player
Ross Forman at the Windy City Times has a recent piece about newly appointed Hawaiian Supreme Court judge Sabrina Shizue McKenna. In addition to being one of the first openly gay person to serve on the state’s highest court. McKenna’s also familiar with another kind of court, having played for the University of Hawaii women’s [...]
Should Garrett Wittels be able to play?
Florida International shortstop Garrett Wittels is accused of raping a woman in the Bahamas in December. He’s also three games shy of breaking Robin Ventura’s NCAA record for consecutive games with a hit. The University announced yesterday that Wittles will be allowed to play in his team’s season-opener this Friday. Some argue he hasn’t been [...]
Winklevoss twins still whining and moaning
Olympic rowers and (so they claim) Facebook kinda sorta creators the Winklevoss twins (now of The Social Network fame) are featured in a three-part video series on The Daily. And wow, do they come off as a couple whining bitches. They got $65 million from Mark Zuckerberg, their dad is worth hundreds of millions of [...]
Lesbian coach Katie Brenny sues Minnesota
Out lesbian golf coach Katie Brenny has filed a lawsuit against the University of Minnesota claiming she was removed from her coaching position at the university because she is gay. According to Golf Week: “The atmosphere that was created became more and more hostile, to the point where it made it intolerable for me to [...]
Softball player suing coach for outing her
A lesbian teen softball player is suing her East Texas high school coach for allegedly outing her. From Gawker: After outing S.W. to her mother, Newell and Fletcher [the softball coaches] kicked her off the softball team. This all happened in March; Wyatt tried repeatedly to file complaints to the school board about Newell and [...]
Metro council steps up pressure on Belmont
At the behest of the Tennessee Equality Project, the Nashville Metro Council is considering a bill that would strip Belmont University of its lease of a city park where the school is building sports facilities to the tune of $7 million. The bill is co-sponsored by Councilmen Jamie Hollin (right) and Mike Jameson. “It’s not [...]
High school wrestler charged for ‘butt drag’
A high school wrestler in the Fresno, Calif., suburb of Clovis has been charged with sexual assault on a teammate for using a move that his coaches taught him and that has been around for decades. The “butt drag” involves grabbing the buttocks of an opponent and sticking a finger in his anus. It is [...]
Trans golfer sues LPGA for the right to play
A transgender golfer is suing two big women’s golf entities for the right to play as a woman. Lana Lawless won the 2009 Long Drivers of America title in 2009; The group then changed their rules to state that a player must have been born a biological woman to participate. The LPGA is also only [...]
Cleveland Synergy sues the Gay Games
Cleveland Synergy Foundation, the group granted the right to host the 2014 Gay Games until the Federation of Gay Games stripped them of that right in July, filed a lawsuit today against the Federation of Gay Games. The City of Cleveland and two other defendants are also named in the suit. The FGG is being [...]
Esera Tuaolo talks about his arrest
Openly gay former NFL player Esera Tuaolo was arrested last weekend after he turned himself in to police in Minnesota. He was charged with domestic assault and disorderly conduct. Outsports spoke with Tuaolo at length today about the incident, and he offered this statement: This is a private situation that has gotten blown out of [...]
Does softball make Elena Kagan a lesbian?
There’s been a lot of talk about the sexual orientation of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. Much of it has centered around this photo of her playing softball or baseball years ago. Whereas men playing sports are assumed by the general population to be straight, women playing sports are assumed to be gay. Like I’ve [...]
NAGAAA fires back at NCLR in open letter
As we here at Outsports continue to form opinions on the lawsuit filed by NCLR on behalf of three allegedly bisexual men against NAGAAA, the gay softball group has released an open letter. Read on… Dear Members and Friends, On April 20th, 2010, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) filed a lawsuit with the [...]
DC gay sports bar Nellie’s robbed
Gay sports bars are quickly growing in number and popularity. In Washington DC, gay sports bar Nellie’s has gotten so popular that it’s even attracting armed robbers in broad daylight… Doug Schantz, owner of Nellie’s Sports Bar at 900 U St. NW, was robbed at gunpoint around 1 p.m. Monday, April 19, by two men. [...]
NCLR sues NAGAAA
Just got this press release via email from our friends at the National Center for Lesbian Rights; They are suing NAGAAA (the North American gay softball organization) over alleged discrimination policies enforced at a recent Gay Softball World Series. We’ll have more in the next 24 hours, but we wanted to get this press release [...]
Michael Irvin’s show canceled, accused of rape
For the last 18 months I’ve appeared regularly on one of radio’s gay-friendliest sports talk shows, The Michael Irvin Show. I called the show’s producer this morning to find out when we were going on, and he told me the show had not been picked up; And while the show was supposed to air today [...]
Former NFL player Eric Green accused of sodomy
Transgender New Yorker Angelina Mavilia has filed a lawsuit against former NFL player Eric Green (right), alleging forced sodomy. She’s suing for $10 million. The two met in a Scottsdale, Ariz., casino in early 2009 when Green still played for the Arizona Cardinals, the 38-year-old East Side woman says in papers filed in federal court [...]
Sizemore targets gay site in witch hunt
Outsports is the latest target in Grady Sizemore’s witch hunt over his leaked and very sexy photos. We received a letter this afternoon from Sizemore’s representative, Terence B. Prince at CAA, demanding that we remove the photos from Outsports. You can read the PDF of the letter we received here. Despite how the photos were [...]
Survey delves into sports homophobia
A New England-based gay rights organization that helped win gay marriage rulings in Massachusetts and Connecticut is seeking to document cases of homophobia in sports as a precursor to possible action down the road. Gay and Lesbian Advocate Defenders, based in Boston, is conducting a survey on attitudes towards gays and lesbians in sports. From [...]