Jessica Aguilar made her professional MMA debut in 2006, but it’s just now that she’s talking about her sexual orientation publicly. The fighter told Sports Illustrated‘s Loretta Hunt that she is bisexual and lives with her girlfriend. Unfortunately, she faces less-than-perfect acceptance from her mother. She’s also reached some comfort in sharing her bisexual orientation, [...]
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Fearless campaign photos stolen at Bryant University
Avery Stone, an out lesbian hockey player at Amherst College, tells the story of visiting Bryant University recently to speak about her participation in Jeff Sheng’s Fearless campaign photo series. Before she got to her speaking engagement, someone at the school had stolen all of Sheng’s photos from the exhibit. Stone writes about her feelings [...]
WNBA star Seimone Augustus is an out lesbian
The Advocate has a great piece on out lesbian Minnesota Lynx star Seimone Augustus, who will be part of Team USA basketball this summer in London. What makes Michelle Garcia’s article so great is how much it focuses on Augustus the athlete, not Augustus the lesbian. Garcia touches on that, as we learn about the [...]
Caster Semenya qualifies for London Olympics in 800m
South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya has qualified for the London Olympics in the 800m. In doing so, she clocked the first sub-2-minute time in South Africa in 21 years. After the historic race, Semenya thanked God: I feel very special to run it after 21-years. I know in 2009 I was nearly there, but [...]
NCLR celebrates 10 years of their sports project
In the 10 years the National Center for Lesbian Rights has had their sports project, they have accomplished a hell of a lot. In fact, their work is all over our 100 most important moments in LGBT sports history. Project director Helen Carroll talks about many of the ways they have opened doors for LGBT [...]
Scout: NFL Draft prospect Kelechi Osemele is soft because ‘he was raised by women’
Various sources report that an unidentified NFL scout has called Iowa State offensive tackle Kelechi Osemele soft because “he was raised by women.” NFL.com reports that Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel sports reporter Bob McGinn quoted the scout as saying: I just don’t know if football is that important to [Osemele]. He was raised by women, which bothers [...]
Rosie O’Donnell stood up to ‘street preacher’ at the Super Bowl
Video has recently surfaced from this year’s Super Bowl in Indianapolis of Rosie O’Donnell in a war of words with a ‘street preacher.’ The gentleman with the megaphone has some choice words for Rosie, and she returns the favor. Video below… Though, part of me can understand why the protester was so angry with the TV and movie [...]
Kye Allums’ former coach, Mike Bozeman, fired from George Washington
Mike Bozeman, the man who blamed transgender player Kye Allums for his team’s horrific 2010-11 season, has been fired as the head coach of the George Washington women’s basketball team. Bozeman has been replaced by Notre Dame assistant coach Jonathan Tsipis, whose team lost in the national championship this year. Bozeman was a complete disaster [...]
Baylor Lady Bears cap perfect 40-0 season with win over Notre Dame
The Baylor Lady Bears women’s basketball team became the first college basketball team to record a 40-0 record, crushing Notre Dame for the national championship Tuesday night, 80-61. Their run through the 2011-12 season was as impressive as any in college sports history. They had only four games decided by single digits. They knocked off [...]
The Dinah attracts lesbians from around the world. Oh yeah, there was golf too.
It may now be called the Kraft Nabisco Championship, but to the thousands of women who flocked to Palm Springs last weekend, it’s still “The Dinah.” The annual pro golf tournament dropped “Dinah” from its name in 1999, even as it was becoming of the largest (some claim the largest) annual lesbian party in the [...]
Homophobia among chief reasons for decline in female college coaches
With the NCAA women’s Final Four underway, ESPN has produced an exhaustive story that looks at the dwindling number of women coaching women’s college teams (it’s down from a high of 90% in 1970 to 42.9% now). Sexism plays a huge role in it, with women finding it hard to get second jobs after they’ve [...]
Alicia proposes to Christina at an Ottawa Senators game
I’m not a big fan of public marriage proposals; For me it’s a private decision that when made public puts undo pressure on someone to say “yes.” But I sure did get teary-eyed watching a video this morning of an Ottawa Senators fan proposing to a Toronto Maple Leafs fan on the ice in front [...]
God-squadder Mo Isom trying to be Les Miles’ new female placekicker for LSU
In 2003, Katie Hnida kicked two PATs for the University of New Mexico, becoming the first female player to score in a Div. 1 college football game. Nine years later, LSU women’s soccer goalie Mo Isom is trying to become the second (watch her kick a goal-to-goal score below). In tryouts for the team last [...]
Olympics’ Women In Sport conference virtually ignores lesbian issues
The Federation of Gay Games had a couple members at the International Olympic Committee’s Women in Sport conference last month. All of them reported on a strange lack of discussion about lesbian issues. Roger Brigham wrote for the Gay Games blog: But the word “lesbian” went unuttered, as did any mention of the pervasive discrimination [...]
Martina joins Twitter, shows off her sense of humor…and ping-pong skeelz
Martina Navratilova’s image for years has been that of a hard, somewhat gruff tennis robot. When I talked with her several years ago, I found her to be incredibly friendly and warm; So it’s nice to see her letting her hair down on her new Twitter account. Not only has she posted about being the [...]
Diana Nyad attempting Cuba to Florida swim for the fourth time
Out distance swimmer Diana Nyad says she will again attempt to swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys this summer. It will be her fourth attempt. She first tried what she calls the “Xtreme Dream” in 1978 at the age of 29, but she was thwarted by bad weather. Last summer she attempted the swim [...]
Fired Belmont soccer coach Lisa Howe gets new gig at Chamber of Commerce
Belmont University fired soccer coach Lisa Howe a year ago because she came out to players on her team. She’s been out of work since then, but she’s landed a great new job at the Nashville GLBT Chamber of Commerce: “Lisa Howe knows first-hand how it is to come out in the work place and [...]
Margaret Court converts homosexuals, is going to the Australian Open, and you can’t stop her!
The homophobia of tennis legend Margaret Court has been well-documented for years. Last year it came to the fore again as Australians struggle with the question of same-sex marriage; Court has been vocally opposed to it from the dais in her church. Now some folks have started a Facebook page advocating rainbow flags over Margaret [...]
Update on outed lesbian softball player Skye Wyatt’s lawsuit
Pat Griffin has a full rundown of the latest from the Sky Wyatt lawsuit. Watt alleges that her high school softball coach in Kilgore, Texas, outed her to her mother, violating her right to privacy. From Griffin’s blog: The lawsuit claims that the coaches: 1. Called Skye to a fake team meeting 2. Locked Skye [...]
Outsports’ Persons of the Year: Pat Griffin and Helen Carroll
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 [...]