We’re thrilled to see two athletes that Outsports introduced to the world, Brian Sims (right) and Galen Dodd, named to the Advocate’s Forty Under 40 list. In Sims case, I guess we “re-introduced” him, as he was a captain of a successful college football team several years before he came out publicly on Outsports. Sims [...]
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Seattle Seahawks new uniforms called “sick” and “seriously ugly”
Nike is now the official supplier of NFL uniforms and they unveiled the new look for all 32 teams. As Paul Lukas of Uniwatch.com notes, there is very little change for 31 of the teams — the Seattle Seahawks are the only team in for a major overhaul of their look. The first reactions to [...]
Gay flag footballer sets the record straight on Chris Cornell-Alaska Airlines incident
Gay Web sites were abuzz last month when Soundgarden lead singer Chris Cornell defended a “gay businessman” from homophobia in the Alaska Airlines lounge at Sea-Tac Airport. Outsports has learned that the businessman was Sergio Turbay, who is a gay flag football player in Los Angeles. The reported story said that another male passenger spewed [...]
Matthew Mitcham, David Boudia into FINA World Cup 10m platform semis
Chinese divers continue their dominance at the Diving World Cup in London. So far they are five-for-five, sweeping through all the finals on both the men’s and women’s sides so far. In the men’s 10m platform preliminaries, considered the “main event,” Lin Yue of China won the preliminary round, while defending Olympic champion Matthew Mitcham [...]
Rapper Erick Sermon: You can’t be gay and be a rapper or athlete
Rapper Erick Sermon denies that he is gay and says it’s not possible to be a gay rapper or an athlete. The EPMD member said that Hip Hop will never have openly gay rappers because it can play against an emcee to admit to homosexuality. “No. It’s the same about when you talk about sports [...]
Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue continues fight against homophobia
We first wrote about Paul Tagliabue, then the NFL commissioner, and his support for gay rights in 2005. Then he was honored by PFLAG with a leadership award (Tagliabue has a gay son, Drew). This pat week, Tagliabue was at Bowdoin College in Maine to participate in the third annual “Anything But Straight in Athletics” [...]
English rugby players compare their abs for aussieBum photo shoot
You have to hand it to aussieBum for their liberal use of hot jocks in their ad campaigns. A prime example is this “making of” video for Rugby’s Finest 2012 Calendar. It features English rugby players, who spend a lot of time comparing their abs or rating themselves on a scale of 1-10. It ends [...]
‘Proud, butch lesbian’ aims to make U.S. Olympic women’s boxing team
Patricia Manuel of Long Beach, Calif., is competing this week in the first Olympic boxing trials for women. The 2012 Games in London will feature women boxers in three weight classes. Manuel (49-14) competes in the lightweight division (132 pounds). She is part Irish, Mexican and black. And as the Long Beach Press-Telegram reports, she [...]
Top Australian rugby referee Matt Cecchin comes out as gay
Matt Cecchin, a top referee in Australia’s National Rugby League, has publicly come out, inspired by reading a book by former Aussie rugby star Ian Roberts. “Like a lot of people, I thought to be gay you had to be feminine, you had to go to nightclubs and you had to be in the scene [...]
A look at the gayest (and straightest) Super Bowl halftime shows
While this may be the “gayest Super Bowl ever,” especially with Madonna as the halftime entertainment, Deadspin’s Tom Scocca’s reminds us that the big game has had a gay influence for a long time. In fact, a survey of Super Bowl halftime history reveals that, pace Madonna, these splashy, highly choreographed song-and-dance theatrical routines have [...]
NFL playoffs: Good to the last drops
The Patriots and Giants hold on to reach the Super Bowl as the Ravens and 49ers make crucial game-deciding errors. How I saw the AFC and NFC championships games: Wow. That was the best Sunday ever for conference championship games. The 49ers-Giants game came down to the last play, with the Giants winning 20-17 in [...]
Shaq paying fans to get tattoo of Charles Barkley-Dick Bavetta kiss
Shaquille O’Neal said last last week on TNT’s ‘Inside the NBA’ that he would pay anyone $1,000 who got a tattoo of the famous kiss between Charles Barkley and Dick Bavetta. Shaq wrote: ”I will pay one thousand dollars to anyone who gets a tattoo of that picture. Tweet me the pics.” At least one person, [...]
BCS mess: Oklahoma State loses to Iowa State, so who’s No. 2?
I love it when the bogus BCS is a mess. Major college football stubbornly refuses to have a playoff and the result is a unsatisfying system that got turned upside down Friday night when Iowa State stunned previously unbeaten Oklahoma State, 37-31, in overtime. LSU and Houston are the only major unbeaten teams and Houston [...]
Gus Johnston talks about why he came out when he did, and why he didn’t do it sooner
When Gus Johnston posted a video on YouTube talking about being gay in sports on Sept. 13, he became the highest-level male field hockey player in the world to be publicly out. The video featured Johnston talking for 12 minutes about his feelings on the discrimination that kept him in the closet for so many [...]
Meet decathlete Artem Lukyanenko
Our friend at the awesome sports photography site Trackpic has the privilege of shooting a lot of the top track events in Europe, where the sport is very popular. This summer he was at the U23 European Athletics Championships held in Ostrava, Czech Republic. A complete gallery is here, but he sent Outsports these of [...]
Outsports’ It Gets Better video: Vincent Pryor, former college football player
Our latest video in Outsports’ partnership with the It Gets Better Project comes from Vincent Pryor, who was out to his teammates while playing defensive end for TCU in 1994. We chronicled his amazing story about how he set a school single-game sack record the week after coming out to his team. “When you’re closeted [...]
NBA, players union asked to add sexual orientation clause to contract
The news that the NFL’s new collective bargaining agreement adds sexual orientation to its non-discrimination clause has spurred a call for the NBA and its players union to do the same. The Resource Center Dallas, an LGBT advocacy group, sent a letter to NBA Commissioner David Stern and union head Billy Hunter asking that similar [...]
Moment #11: Australian rugby league player Ian Roberts comes out while still active
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Rugby league, 1995: Ian Roberts was a top-level professional player in Australia’s rugby league. And he came out openly as gay to a gay magazine while still playing. He is one of the very few players from a major world team sport [...]
Former Belgian pro soccer player Jonathan De Falco is now gay porn star Stany Falcone
Jonathan De Falco, 27, had been a professional soccer player for the Belgium team Racing Mechelen. But he left the sport this year after an injury to get into the gay porn business. His porn name is Stany Falcone and he says he is doing well. “For several months I have had a boyfriend,” De [...]
Moment #26: Umpire Dave Pallone fired by Major League Baseball for being gay
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Baseball, 1988: Dave Pallone was never one to back down from a confrontation, good traits for an umpire. He was famously known for an April 1988 for an onfield incident where he went chest-to-chest with Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose. But [...]