Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Media, 2001: After working at the Worldwide Leader on the TV side and then online since 1999, journalist Bill Konigsberg came out publicly at ESPN in a column. Konigsberg, whom I have known as a friend for a decade, had a [...]
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Gay football novel wins Lambda Lit Award
Congratulations to lontime Outsports friend Bill Konigsberg, who won a Lambda Literary Award last night for his book about a gay high school football player, Out of the Pocket. The award was for LGBT Children’s/Young Adult. Bill’s been on the forefront of gay visibility in the sports media since he came out at ESPN in [...]
Gay-sports panel discussion in NYC
A couple months ago, I was part of a panel discussion at the Gay Center in New York, hosted by Out Professionals. It was a general conversation about gays in sports, and there were some good voices on the panel. Out former WNBA player Sue Wicks was great and I hung on every word she [...]