When we first met Adam Goddard about a year ago, he was overjoyed to have found the Los Angeles Gay Football League. A student at Long Beach State and attracted to both men and women, he was struggling to find his corner of the LGBT community; As a former high school fullback (“the meanest 130 [...]
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Will Tim Tebow appear in a Denver Broncos ‘It Gets Better’ video?
The latest Change.org effort to pick up some steam is a petition asking the Denver Broncos to create an ‘It Gets Better’ video. No professional team in Colorado has made one, and Denver resident Andy Szekeres wants the Orange Crush to be the first. The big question I have, and I know it’s on the [...]
Stanford coach David Shaw’s PowerPoint: Andrew Luck for the Heisman Trophy
While most schools are spending wine-and-dine money on flashy Heisman campaigns for their top candidates, Stanford coach David Shaw did what any self-respecting Stanford grad would do for his quarterback: He created a PowerPoint deck that he presented at a recent press conference. Unfortunately, the video after the jump only has Shaw’s presenting of the [...]
Leon Lett and the dumbest play in Thanksgiving game history
The only words you will hear more than “Happy Thanksgiving” this Thursday are likely to be “Leon Lett.” That’s because the former Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle committed the most boneheaded play in Thanksgiving game history 18 years ago when the Cowboys hosted the Miamid Dolphins. The Cowboys, up 14-13 with 12 seconds let in the [...]
Deion: ‘Six people trying to hit that Blount!’
He was talking about Tampa Bay running back Legarrette Blount, but methinks a double entendre was racing through Deion Sanders’ head. On Sunday he unleashed quite possibly the best line of NFL analysis I’ve ever heard when he said six Packers were all “trying to hit that blunt.” Deion probably thought of it in August [...]
Video: Yale tight end Beau Palin shows off in his most patriotic underwear
Yale tight end Beau Palin is incredibly patriotic, is a talented barefooter…and incredibly comfortable in nothing but the smallest of speedos. Lucky us! If only every American athlete was as comfortable with their sexuality to pose for a video like this of him and his brothers at home in Wisconsin. On Saturday, Palin and his [...]
Transgender bodybuilder Chris Tina Bruce enters first competition
Chris Tina Bruce, a 43-year-old transgender bodybuilder, competed for the first time as a woman on Oct. 29, finishing second out of two contestants in the Border States Classic Bodybuilding competition. From the Huffington Post: The 6-foot, 3-inch Bruce dropped 40 pounds for the event, and while the organizers were OK with a former male competing [...]
Aussie field hockey player Gus Johnston comes out in video
It was a month ago that we first stumbled across Aussie field hockey player Angus ‘Gus’ Johnston’s coming out video (after the jump). For whatever reason, it was that story simply fell through the cracks here at Outsports. This weekend the Sydney Morning-Herald and the rest of the world took notice of his compelling 12-minute [...]
Shaq voices support for gay youth
Former NBA superstar (and sure-to-be Hall of Famer) Shaquille O’Neal has recoreded a short video (watch after the jump) against bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth. Shaq looks like he’s put on a couple pounds since retirement, but he also speaks with more inflection than usual; Somebody’s doing good work with him on [...]
Gay flag football, not Rick Perry, brings much-needed rain to Houston
Maybe God does listen to the gays. Houston — like the rest of Texas — is in the middle of a terrible drought and in April, Gov. Rick Perry issued a proclamation officially praying for rain. His prayers were ignored, the drought continued and then Gay Bowl XI came to town this weekend. Sunday saw [...]
Outsports It Gets Better: Billy Bean, Major League Baseball player
The latest video in Outsports’ partnership with the It Gets Better Project™ is from Billy Bean, who played baseball with the Tigers, Dodgers and Padres from 1987-95. Bean is a gay sports pioneer, becoming one of the few pro athletes who publicly came out. I met Billy this weekend and we did a terrific interview [...]
Hudson Taylor profiled in NCAA’s Human Highlight Reel
Recently married Hudson Taylor is the focus of the NCAA’s recent Buick Human Highlight Reel, which profiles people who have committed their time to improving collegiate sports in and out of competition. The video chronicles Taylor’s efforts to reach straight athletes on the issue of homophobia and his group, Athlete Ally. Check out the video [...]
Northwestern athletic department says ‘It Gets Better’
Joining the ranks of many Major League Baseball teams, the Northwestern University athletic department has put together an ‘It Gets Better’ video (after the jump) featuring school athletic director Jim Phillips, head football coach Pat Fitzgerald (right) and star men’s basketball player John Shurna, among others. Phillips said: We are excited to join with the [...]
Michigan to show anti-homophobia PSA at Saturday’s football game
Our good friend Howard Bragman has been busy helping to organize the 40th anniversary celebration of the nation’s oldest LGBT center on a campus, the University of Michigan’s The Spectrum. So it was with tons of excitement that he called today to tell us about this PSA that will air during their football game on [...]
Outsports It Gets Better: Mari Burningham, college volleyball coach
The latest video in Outsports’ partnership with the It Gets Better Project comes from Mari Burningham, head volleyball coach at the University of Redlands in Southern California. Burningham became known to Outsports readers after she wrote a powerful story about being a Mormon lesbian at BYU. In her video, Burningham details how things have gotten [...]