Kenneth Faried is an emerging player in the Ohio Valley Conference for Morehead State. In an article on ESPN.com, Faried talks about his mother, who is a lesbian. He talks beautifully about his mother’s wife and their relationship. “I think people have an aura about them and the first time I met her, I thought, [...]
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Out athlete tells others to stay in the closet
Out lesbian German goalkeeper Ursula Holl continues a sad trend of out athletes trying to convince other athletes to not come out. Out Olympian Blake Skjellerup picked up on it last week and set the record straight (so to speak). First he got Holl’s comments translated…. “I think it is problematic that gay players should [...]
Gay couple defend Iowa St. women’s basketball
ESPN the Magazine has an important and timely article out about homophobia in women’s college basketball (“On homophobia and recruiting”). It addresses the subject of “negative recruiting,” a topic we have written about regularly at Outsports. The story opens by dealing with the program at Iowa State, where inferences are drawn. It is attracting criticism [...]
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 [...]
Kye Allums battles concussions
George Washington University’s transgender basketball player Kye Allums is again battling the repercussions of a concussion he suffered in their Nov. 18 game against Coppin State, GW spokesperson Jesse Hooker has informed me. Allums had returned to play after Thanksgiving and lit up the scoreboard, leading the team in field goal percentage shooting 13-for-26 in [...]
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 [...]
Stanford ends UConn’s win streak at 90
The last team the UConn women’s basketball team lost to before winning 90 straight games was the Stanford Cardinal. On Thursday night Stanford ended that UConn streak beating the Lady Huskies in convincing fashion, 70-59. The win avenged Stanford’s loss to UConn in the national championship game last April. A video recap of the game [...]
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 [...]
Penn State volleyball coach is gay-positive
Penn State women’s volleyball coach Russ Rose was recently profiled by ESPN.com. And out of the blue he talked about his welcoming position on gay players. I’m different than a lot of other people. I’m not judgmental in any way on anything. People might avoid kids that don’t look like they play well with others [...]
Podcast: Helen Carroll on Belmont University
Helen Carroll, the director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights Sports Project, joins us to talk about the case of Belmont University firing soccer coach Lisa Howe because she is a lesbian. Carroll is from the Nashville area and has returned there to visit Howe in recent days. Listen to our podcast with Helen [...]
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 [...]
Golf coach Katie Brenny fired for being lesbian?
University of Minnesota golf coach Katie Brenny is claiming she was demoted because she is a lesbian. The school won’t comment. From Golf Week: Brenny contends that she encountered a hostile work environment after John Harris, Minnesota’s first-year director of golf, found out that she is a lesbian, according to attorney Donald Mark Jr. of [...]
Students protest against Belmont University
Students, faculty and trustees continue to show their displeasure with the homophobic firing of lesbian soccer coach Lisa Howe at Belmont University. Total Sports Mag has been there working with Belmont’s Bridge Builders organization and has a couple great video reports. Listening to the students talk about the discrimination brings great hope for the future [...]
Lisa Howe gets support for Belmont firing
Since Belmont University fired soccer coach Lisa Howe for being lesbian there has been an outpouring of support for the fired coach from students, faculty and the media. SI’s Jeff Pearlman wrote a scathing column lambasting the college and its decision. Here’s the good news: In the traditionally conservative, Bible Belt city of Nashville, people [...]
Kye Allums returns with big game and win
Kye Allums missed his team’s previous three games with a concussion, but he came back Sunday with a vengeance, shooting 3-for-5 from the field scoring 10 points and pulling in two rebounds as George Washington beat George Mason, 67-58. The GWU Colonials trailed the George Mason Bulldogs, 30-17, at halftime before roaring back for the [...]
Fired Belmont coach Lisa Howe speaks
Editor’s note: Got this release this evening from a law office representing Lisa Howe, the Belmont University women’s soccer coach who was fired for being a lesbian. Lisa Howe, the former soccer coach at Belmont University, will not comment on any topic related to the University other than to respectfully disagree with the suggestion in [...]
Kye Allums, GWU lose opener
Kye Allums’ first game as an openly transgender man ended in disappointment as his team lost to Wisconsin-Green Bay, 75-51, in the Best Buy Classic. The tournament is being held in Minneapolis, near Allums’ childhood home. Allums played 15 minutes and racked up 1 rebound and 1 assist. “Kye played pretty well,” Allums’ head coach [...]
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 [...]
Basketball coach fights ‘homosexual lifestyle’
A basketball coach in Kentucky is dedicating his coaching efforts to fighting the “lesbian lifestyle.” Coach Jaye Collins (left in photo, with Isaiah Thomas) has put together the Lady Legends basketball team to feature some of the top girls high school basketball play who are committed to God and rejecting the gay “lifestyle.” From the [...]
Out lesbian making noise in the boxing ring
An out lesbian is making noise in the boxing ring with a big personality and some hard hits. Boxing “bad girl” Melissa “Huracan” Hernandez of the Bronx returned to New Mexico on Aug. 14 to claim the interim WIBA Lightweight title in an eight-round battle with Albuquerque’s Victoria Cisneros. The fight was the featured match [...]