Campus Pride has released its list of the 10 most LGBT-friendly colleges for athletes. The schools that made the list are: Bates College (who hosted Hudson Taylor, left), Bowdoin College, Bucknell University, Columbia University, Indiana University, Ithaca College, Kennesaw State University, New York University, Stanford University and Whitman College. Campus Pride founder Shane Windmeyer is making [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hudson Taylor’
Athletic Equality Index for pro sports teams?
Hudson Taylor would like to see the sports world follow HRC’s corporate index and institute and Athletic Equality Index to determine just how gay-friendly each pro sports team is. Though professional sports are moving in a positive direction, they need the transparency and metrics of an equality index to institutionalize a proactive rather than reactive [...]
Brad Pitt – Angelina Jolie engagement shows commitment issue of some allies
Brad Pitt from ‘Moneyball’ The engagement of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie tells us a lot about the fight for equality in sports. Several years ago, Pitt said he and Jolie would not marry until same-sex marriage was legal. While a smattering of states have legalized it, the vast majority of Americans can’t marry in [...]
UCLA fights homophobia in athletic department with Hudson Taylor
UCLA, with one of the most storied athletic departments in the NCAA, has embraced the fight against homophobia in sports with a full Athlete Ally initiative including a visit from Hudson Taylor on Monday. For the last week, varsity and club-sport athletes have taken part in an ally photo shoot. Participating in the shoots have [...]
Impact of Hudson Taylor’s Athlete Ally being felt at Whitman College
When Hudson Taylor founded Athlete Ally in early 2011, he was a one-man band. Just over a year later, his organization has spread to various colleges across the United States. Taylor first introduced Athlete Ally to Whitman College in the autumn of 2011. Since then, it’s taken a life of its own. To me, one [...]
NCAA and Athlete Ally enter into partnership
Athlete Ally today announced a new partnership with the NCAA. This is fantastic news. We know the NCAA is already working closely with the National Center for Lesbian Rights; And in recent years the NCAA has taken steps toward ending homophobia in collegiate sports. This is another wonderful step to see. You can read the [...]
Hudson Taylor: More support for LGBT coaches is badly needed
While many people are focused on LGBT athletes and when we’ll have the first out male pro athlete in America in one of the big five leagues, Hudson Taylor wants more attention to be paid to coaches. And he’s 100% right. On the Huffington Post he details the importance of laying out the welcome mat [...]
Team DC gives out awards, scholarships
Team DC, the umbrella gay sports organization in Washington DC, handed out awards on Oct. 22 at their Champions Awards reception. The most impressive component of the awards are the scholarships given to student-athletes. Three athletes received college scholarships: Northern Virginia Community College’s Joe Acevedo; Washington University’s Nate Eckland; and University of Maryland’s Justin Kanga. Awards [...]
Nike hosts gay coming out day event highlighting straight allies
Read more from Pat Griffin on her blog. Last spring just after GLSEN launched Changing the Game, our new sports project, I got an email from Edward Tylicki from Nike. Edward is a member of Nike’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Friends Employee Network. Edward sought me out as director for the Sports Project because [...]
Hudson Taylor profiled in NCAA’s Human Highlight Reel
Recently married Hudson Taylor is the focus of the NCAA’s recent Buick Human Highlight Reel, which profiles people who have committed their time to improving collegiate sports in and out of competition. The video chronicles Taylor’s efforts to reach straight athletes on the issue of homophobia and his group, Athlete Ally. Check out the video [...]
Moment #45: Straight wrestler Hudson Taylor comes out as ally of gay athletes
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Wrestling, 2010: In February 2010 I wrote an article about wrestler Hudson Taylor taking a stand for gay rights. Taylor was then a nationally ranked 198-pounder on the University of Maryland team. The article became our most read of that year [...]
Michael Irvin on the cover of ‘Out,’ talks about his gay brother, supports gay marriage
Read the full article in Out magazine here. It was about two years ago that Michael Irvin first talked to me about a secret he’s carried with him for 30 years. “You know, Cyd, my brother was gay,” he said. Actually, I didn’t know. And neither did virtually any of Michael’s teammates at the University [...]
Hudson Taylor and Athlete Ally visit Bates College and get about 500 pledges
Editor’s Note: Hudson Taylor is a former college wrestler and the founder of Athlete Ally. We’ve asked him for occasional updates on his group’s progress. He filed this entry shortly after his trip to Bates College in Maine. This month brought incredible momentum to Athlete Ally. I’ve visited schools throughout the East coast and spoken [...]
Hudson Taylor of Athlete Ally visits with Thomas Roberts of MSNBC
Hudson Taylor, whom we originally profiled a year ago, was a featured guest today on MSNBC to talk about gay equality in sports and his non-profit group Athlete Ally. Check out the video of his 4-minute appearance after the jump. Share on Facebook
Hudson Taylor honored by PFLAG
Hudson Taylor is being honored by the Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays with its Straight for Equality award, given to an ally of gay rights. Taylor, a former collegiate wrestler and now wrestling coach whom we written about many times for his amazing work, has most recently founded Athlete Ally. In its first [...]
Outsports nominated for GLAAD Award
We were thrilled to hear yesterday that Outsports has been nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for the second year in a row. Jim’s piece last winter that introduced Hudson Taylor to the world was nominated for best Digitial Journalism article along with four other articles. Other sports pieces nominated include two documentary films (Prodigal [...]
Ben Cohen, Hudson Taylor to work together
Ben Cohen and Hudson Taylor, the two strongest straight allies in the fight against homophobia in sports, met in New York this weekend and will work together on their joint passion. Wrote Cohen on his Facebook page: Met Hudson Taylor last night what a great guy. We share the same passion on homophobia in sport [...]
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 [...]
Harvey Milk inspires Hudson Taylor
I got an email today from Columbia wrestling coach Hudson Taylor sharing a YouTube video of Harvey Milk’s famous “Hope” speech. He said the speech “always fires me up to get stuff done!” Hudson is an incredibly unique guy: Straight, engaged, and inspired by the gay movement. Check out the video that gets him going [...]
GLSEN sports project sets agenda
Last week I headed to New York City for the first meeting of the advisory board for GLSEN’s new sports project, Changing the Game. The initiative, headed by Pat Griffin, will battle homophobia in sports at the K-12 level. The advisory board meeting included some great people from across the LGBT sports spectrum: Transgender former [...]