U.S. star women’s soccer player Megan Rapinoe, who will be on the Olympic team, answered “we’re out there” when asked when a high-profile player would come out. It was a rather novel way to answer the question. Here is the appropriate part from a video interview with Rapinoe on KickTV (video below): Q: Do you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Soccer’
2 gay sports figures chosen to help carry the Olympics torch
Two men associated with gay sports are among the 7,300 torch bearers selected to carry the Olympic torch throughout Britain in the run-up to the the Summer Games. Tim Sullivan, chairman of London’s gay rugby team King’s Cross Steelers, and Chris Basiurski, who heads the Gay Football Supporters’ Network, will be among those carrying the [...]
David Testo hopes being openly gay hasn’t stopped soccer teams from signing him
David Testo came out last year as an openly gay soccer player after leaving the Montreal Impact. He is still looking for a job and told Britain’s Sky Sports he hopes the lack of interest has nothing to do with his public sexuality: “I hope that I wasn’t let go because I was gay. I [...]
“Gay icon” Freddie Ljungberg rumored for British “Celebrity Big Brother”
Former Calvin Klein model and longtime pro soccer player Freddie Ljungberg is being considered as a contestant in the next British “Celebrity Big Brother” as a way to boost the number of gay viewers. Reports the Daily Star: A CBB insider said: “The man is unbelievably attractive and won’t just have the girls hot under [...]
Four members of Australian pro soccer team ride on float in gay Mardi Gras parade
Four soccer players from the Sydney Olympic pro team in Australia rode on a float in this weekend’s gay Mardi Gras parade in Sydney to help promote solidarity and fight homophobia in sports. Brett Studman, Emmanuel Giannaros, Phillip Makrys and Will Angel rode on the float as guests of the Sydney Rangers, a gay soccer [...]
Graeme Le Saux says soccer needs to create safe space for gay players
Former English soccer player Graeme Le Saux, who says his career was damaged by false rumors that he is gay, tells the BBC that gay players need support that is not there now. “The important thing isn’t whether or not there are gay players in professional football,” Le Saux told BBC Radio Jersey. “The point [...]
English soccer player Ravel Morrison sends homophobic tweet to fan
Soccer player Ravel Morrison, formerly of Manchester United and now with West Ham of the English Premier League, is in hot water after sending a homophobic tweet to a fan. From Goal.com: Morrison’s tweet, which has since been deleted, read: “crack head ? Go suck out u little faggot your a guy that talks if [...]
English Premier player Joey Barton says soccer needs to embrace a gay player
Joey Barton plays for the Queens Park Rangers in the English Premier League, one of the top soccer leagues in the world. In a BBC documentary on gays in soccer, Barton reveals that he has a gay uncle and implores his sport to embrace a gay player. There is no doubt in my mind that [...]
Soccer’s Sepp Blatter: If you’re called a racist slur, just shake hands
Sepp Blatter, the ruling czar of soccer, is in hot water after saying there is no racism in the sport. His most outrageous statement was that anything said on the pitch was heat of the moment and that the players should just shake hands later. All this happened as English player John Terry is accused [...]
Ex-teammates glad that David Testo came out, assume everybody knew
Former teammates of David Testo, the pro soccer player who came out as gay, say they learned a lot from him about homosexuality and are glad he is at peace. Nevio Pizzolitto believes most of the North American Soccer League knew Testo was gay, adding he thought “everybody” already knew. “It wasn’t like it seemed [...]
Aussie soccer player Antony Golec sorry for homophobic tweet against referee
Antony Golec, a defender for the Adelaide United soccer team in Australia, has apologized and been reprimanded after he sent a tweet that used a gay slur to insult a referee. Golec was watching a match on TV involving two other teams Saturday when he took to Twitter to insult referee Ben Williams for some [...]
Moment #23: Justin Fashanu, openly gay soccer player, commits suicide
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Soccer, 1998: Fashanu’s death 13 years later still reverberates in the soccer world. His name is brought up an Exhibit A of why a soccer player can never come out. In his new book, German captain Philipp Lahm advised gay players [...]
German soccer captain Philipp Lahm: I’m not gay, advises closet for those who are
Philipp Lahm is captain of the German soccer team and he has a new book out where he denies rumors he’s gay, says he doesn’t have a problem with gays but that gay players should stay in the closet anyway. AP has these excerpts: “First, I am not a homosexual. I am not married to [...]
With a gay brother, Adelphi University soccer coach knows what his player is going through
College soccer player Brandon Stoneham writes a terrific coming out story for Outsports and opens with about how he told his coach at Adelphi University. The coach, Carlo Acquista, knows something about the difficulty of coming out through the experience of his younger brother Paolo. “I totally know where [Stonerham’s] coming from because my brother [...]
Gay soccer player Anton Hysen talks about dealing with his first hate mail
The story of openly gay Swedish soccer player Anton Hysen continues to get a lot of play in England since he is the only out pro player in his sport. In a terrific BBC radio piece by Tim Franks, we hear Hysen, 20, describe his reaction to his first piece of hate mail. I [...]
Openly gay soccer player Anton Hysen says any boyfriend of his has to like sports
Swedish soccer pro Anton Hysen, who came out as gay a week ago, says he is picky when it comes to having a boyfriend. For one, the guy has to like sports. He told Charlie Wyett in a terrific Q&A in the London Sun: I have never had a boyfriend. I am having trouble with [...]
Remembering gay sports pioneer, the late Justin Fashanu, on his 50th birthday
Justin Fashanu was the first and still only English pro soccer player to come out. He had a very troubled career and life and committed suicide in 1998. Writer Keph Senett wrote about a ceremony that honored Fashanu on what would have been his 50th birthday. This article is excerpted from the original piece published [...]
Polish gay soccer fans want separate seating
A group of fans calling themselves the first gay soccer fan club in Poland wants separate seating for themselves at next year’s Euro 2012 tournament, fearing discrimination. From the London Daily Mail: Teczowa Trybuna 2012 – Rainbow Stand 2012 … claims members fear hostility from other fans and want to feel safe during the tournament [...]
Kickette: A site if you like hot soccer players
With articles like “Player Stalking: A User’s Guide” and “The Sizzle Query: The Tuesday Torso Trifecta,” the soccer (or “football” for their readers) site Kickette does not concern itself with on-field strategy or player transfers. Instead its mission is hell of a lot more entertaining: “all things fun, fluffy and footie-related. Multi-millionaire football star shenanigans, [...]
Gay high school athletes blog
“Three kids. Three time zones. One mission …” That’s the tagline for a fantastic new blog, “Walk the Road” (with the url www.bradrobertben.wordpress.com), created and written by three gay teenage high school athletes. That’s unusual in and of itself. What makes it even more unique is that the three are not anonymous. The three bloggers [...]