Robert is a 17-year-old living in the South, a big fan of cars, music, video games and the Chicago Bears. He also plays soccer on his high school team and is gay. Along with two friends, Brad and Ben, he will be launching a blog next week specifically to connect other gay and questioning high [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Soccer’
Gay soccer club founder gets high honor
Aslie Pitter, who founded the gay Stonewall Football Club in London, was among those honored in Britain for New Year’s as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). It’s an honor bestowed by the British monarchy and recognizes distinguished service. Pitter, 50, was honored for his impact on tackling homophobia in sport [...]
Video: Lisa Howe tells team she’s gay
From ESPN’s “Outside The Lines,” a segment on Lisa Howe, the former Belmont University women’s soccer coach, who lost her job after she came out to her team: Share on Facebook
Sepp Blatter’s non-apology for gay remark
Sepp Blatter, the president of world soccer’s governing body FIFA, has issued the classic “non-apology apology” for his comments that gays attending the 2022 World Cup in Qatar should remain from having sex. “It was not my intention and never will be my intention to go into any discrimination,” he said. “If somebody feels hurt, [...]
Mario Gomez: Come out, gay soccer players
Bravo to German soccer player Mario Gomez for encouraging gay soccer players to come out publicly. It would help their careers, the 25-year-old says in an interview with Die Zeit. They would then play as though they’d been unshackled,” Gomez told magazine Bunte. “Being gay hasn’t been a taboo topic for a while.” Share on [...]
Best soccer goal celebration ever
The gone fishing celebration by Stjarnan in Iceland. Brilliant and well-conceived: Deadspin has video of the same team with other celebrations. Share on Facebook
Gay soccer storyline on Argentine soap opera
Argentina this week became the first country in South America to legalize gay marriage. In a post about the NBA’s Manu Ginobli supporting the law, I mentioned an Argentine soap opera that this spring introduced a storyline about two gay soccer players. Andrés Duque of the blog Blabbeando gave me some background about the episode [...]
Gay Games: Chris Fajardo, soccer
One in a series of first-person articles from athletes competing in the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne. Chris Fajardo San Francisco My name is Chris Fajardo and I play and coach the San Francisco Spikes. My voyage, which really should be considered an odyssey at this point, to Cologne has been an intense one. I, [...]
Freddie Ljungberg addresses gay rumors
Tucked into this Q&A in the New York Times Magazine piece on the home life of soccer’s Freddie Ljungberg, now with the Seattle Sounders, was a question about gossip and this was his response: There’s been a gay rumor for a long time. I don’t mind at all. I am proud of that. I love [...]
Do you have World Cup fever or just sniffles?
The World Cup starts in two days and most of the world is obsessed with the month-long event. In the U.S. though, interest is not as high. More Americans do follow the World Cup and ratings increase every four years (it’s great that every game is now televised), but the game is still not a [...]
Gay soccer player blogs from the closet
The latest in what is becoming a mini-trend — closeted jocks blogging — has a new and worthy entrant, One in Eleven, Thoughts of a Gay Footballer Exposed. That’s football, as in soccer. The author, Craig, is a semipro soccer player in England, who has hopes of one day turning pro. His writing is both [...]
Column decries treatment of gays in soccer
It is still not that common when a mainstream columnist tackles head on homophobia in sports. So it was refreshing to read a strong piece by John Leicester, AP’s international sports columnist, where he decried the treatment of gays in soccer. He used as his jumping off point the absurd statements made by Italian coach [...]