For four years, GLAAD had a president in Neil Giuliano who was a strong advocate for work in the sports world. He created the sports desk, hired Ted Rybka to run it, and worked constantly to bring members of the sports media into the GLAAD fold. Giuliano left GLAAD last year, and I caught up [...]
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Outsports nominated for GLAAD award
We were thrilled to find out we’ve been nominated for GLAAD’s Outstanding Digital Journalism Article award for our ground-breaking article, “Former college football captain was openly gay.” The article chronicles the story of Brian Sims, the defensive tackle who came out to his Bloomsburg University football team in 2000. Since the release of the article [...]
Mock Nike ad is anti-ballet, not anti-gay
Here we go again. Some art design student made a mock Nike ad that ran in CMYK magazine. The ad’s tag line read: “The only thing worse than going to the ballet is going to the ballet to watch your son.” Some gays apparently got GLAAD involved because the ad is supposedly anti-gay; Ted Rybka, [...]