You’d be hard-pressed to name two people who have collectively had a stronger impact on the gay-sports movement than Pat Griffin and Helen Carroll. These two pioneers have been working toward equality for the better part of 30 years. They’ve visited high schools. They’ve talked to colleges. They’ve waged legal campaigns. They’ve educated educators. And [...]
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Vote: Who is Outsports’ Person of the Year?
Last day to vote! Every year we ask our readers to crown the Outsports ‘Person of the Year.’ Last year’s honorees were Brian & Patrick Burke, who garnered over 60% of the vote! This year we have many incredibly deserving people, and we have narrowed it down to these final six. We’ll announce the winner [...]
Jerry Sandusky is Outsports’ Jerk of the Year
“Jerk” doesn’t seem to accurately describe a man accused of raping a number of boys. Nonetheless, former Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky has received the lowest honor afforded by our readers on Outsports and has been named our “Jerk of the Year.” With 40% of the vote, Sandusky received more than double the [...]
Vote: Who is Outsports’ Jerk of the Year?
Last day to vote! Every year we crown our annual ‘Jerk of the Year,’ honoring those in sports who were, well, jerks. Last year’s ‘Jerk of the Year’ was the Belmont University administration, who fired soccer coach Lisa Howe after she came out of the closet. This year we have many worthy candidates from football, [...]
Nominate people for Outsports ‘Person of the Year’ and ‘Jerk of the Year’ awards
Every year at this time we ask our readers to select the ‘Person of the Year’ and ‘Jerk of the Year.’ We’re going to start the poll later this week, and right now we’re asking for nominees. There are so many people deserving of both awards, we’d love to hear whom you think should be [...]
Poll shows 90% of English soccer fans are gay-friendly, blame closet on agents
Revelations that sports aren’t as homophobic as long thought are becoming a broken record in the mainstream media. The latest is yet still another poll that shows fans don’t care if a player is gay and think homophobia doesn’t belong in sports. In a study by the University of Staffordshire published in the Journal of [...]
Who’s hotter in Armani underwear: David Beckham, Rafael Nadal or Cristiano Ronaldo?
David Beckham has been the poster child for athletes willing to strip down and show off their gorgeous bodies. Most notably he’s done it for Armani underwear. Now come new photos and videos of tennis great Rafael Nadal following Beckham’s lead…in nothing but his Armanis. We saw a batch of them before, but the latest [...]
Moment #29: Majority of pro athletes say they would welcome a gay teammate
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Sports, 2006: Sports Illustrated polled players in the four major North American team and asked if they would welcome an openly gay teammates. In all four sports, a majority said yes. The highest percentage of support was in the NHL, at [...]
Is poker a sport?
I appeared on SiriusXM’s Derek & Romaine show yesterday for about an hour to talk sports. The hosts aren’t big sports fans (Romaine hates football), but we always mix it up for the sports fans and non-sports fans in their audience. Somehow yesterday we got to talking about auto racing and I said I personally [...]
Vote for Joe In Philly’s blog
Of all the Outsporters over the years, possibly none have been around as long and developed the personal profile on this site that Joe In Philly has. He’s been a constant commentor on the discussion board, an occasional blogger for us, and attended both Outsports conventions in the early 2000s. He’s now up for an award via [...]
Help Lady Gaga give $1 million to gay group
Lady Gaga and poverty-fighting organization Robin Hood need help giving away $1 million…and one of the five groups in the running is the Hetrick-Martin Institute, “the nation’s oldest social service organization dedicated to serving LGBTQ youth, providing health services, food, counseling, education, career development and H.I.V. and S.T.D. prevention.” Right now the Institute is in [...]
Vote for the most eligible gay bachelor
Out magazine has tagged 100 openly gay men for their reader poll to name the most eligible gay bachelor. Some are more well-known than others. They only included two athletes in the list: Rugger Gareth Thomas and skater Johnny Weir. I’ll take either of them over the likes of Andy Cohen any day. You can [...]
Vote: Outsports Sportsperson of the year
While the search for the first openly gay active pro athlete in the big four American sports continues, there was a lot of good that happened for gays in sports in 2010. Many more athletes came out, many more straight allies came on board, and transgender athletes became big stories for the first time in [...]
Vote: Outsports Jerk of the Year
Many advances were made for gay equality in sports in 2010, but there were also some setbacks. Still, despite the homophobic actions of some there was a silver lining: The public reaction to them was overwhelmingly negative, demonstrating that while homophobia still exists, it is tolerated less and less. This year five people or groups [...]
Baseball players polled on gay teammates
ESPN polled Major League Baseball players on what they think the reaction in the clubhouse would be to having a gay teammate and the reaction was mixed. On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being no big deal and 10 it being a huge deal, the average was 5.1. A 5 on the scale grabbed [...]