Posts Tagged ‘Harvard’

Straight Harvard wrestlers show their support as allies on National Coming Out Day

The Harvard wrestling team showed their endorsement of National Coming Out Day on Tuesday, gathering with rainbow pins and fun T-shirts to support gay athletes and students. One of the T-shirts worn by a wrestler summed it up perfectly: “Some dudes marry dudes. Get over it.”  From the Harvard Crimson: Before their Tuesday afternoon practice, [...]

There is crying in basketball

We hear it every time this year. Waaaaah. Waaaaaaaaaaaah. All the way from Bristol, Conn., the rest of the country can hear Dick Vitale and countless other commentators whining because so-and-so didn’t get into the men’s basketball tournament…despite the NCAA adding three more spots this year! You can see Vitale’s annual whining fit after the [...]

Is there a gay tailgate scene at Harvard?

We have resumed our popular Tailgate Tour and this week Todd Heustess is headed to Cambridge, Mass., for Penn vs. Harvard. Todd always tries to seek out GLBT groups that tailgate or do some social function around the game. He is still searching for what that something is at Harvard. If you know of any [...]

Zach Pucthel now out-ish pro baller in Israel

About 16 months ago we brought the story of Zach Puchtel, a former Univ. of Minnesota basketball player who came out of the closet during a fashion show in the spring of 2007. Since then, he’s been hard to pin down on various levels: His sexuality is fluid and he says he’s not gay; He [...]