Month: February 2013

The Golden State Warriors, one of the pleasant surprises of this NBA season, today unveiled their new uniform by Adidas. The yellow jerseys will be worn for the Warriors’ three remaining Friday home games this season. They're being billed as "the first modern short sleeve NBA Uniform System." We're not complaining. The jerseys are tight […]

The Dog Tag Project was started by Matt Freeman to bring awareness to the fight against Don't Ask Don't Tell. We asked several athletes at the Gay Games to model the project's dog tags.

There may have been more tattoos than athletes at Gay Games VIII in Cologne.

Scenes from the Gay Games 2010 opening ceremonies.

We visit wrestling, basketball and judo at Gay Games VIII in Cologne, Germany.

On Day 2 of the Gay Games, Outsports visited three events held several kilometers from the city center: Triathlon, Cycling and Inline Speed Skating.

The best from Gay Games bodybuilding.

Soccer is the largest event at the Gay Games, with more than 1,000 participants.

Barack Obama (Photo by Jack Gruber-USA TODAY) In what is almost certainly a first, an American president has endorsed a bid for a city to host the Gay Games, when President Obama put his support behind Orlando's bid to host the Gay Games X in 2018. The news, first reported by Watermark, came in the […]

Sean Karson is the third-baseman for MIT’s baseball team. He hit .350 as a sophomore last season and is co-captain of this year’s team. A chemistry and computer science major, Karson spent Super Bowl weekend at Facebook headquarters in California as part of a conference of LGBT tech students. He already has a tech startup […]

NBA star who used a gay slur publicly two years ago shows how far he's come

Arizona Cardinal responds to the notion that players joke about his sexual orientation

Atmosphere and laws in Russia represent potential problems for gay athletes

The top decathletes in the world meet in Austria.

Brendon Ayanbadejo at the Super Bowl (Matthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports) Chuck Culpepper has a great column in Sports on Earth talking about meeting Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo after the AFC Championship Game. I worked with Chuck years ago in Pasadena, Calif., and have always admired his work. I knew he was gay but also […]

Three out voices will contribute to the group's push for more straight allies

Simon Fraser, a linebacker on Ohio State’s 2002 national championship football team, has endorsed a proposed amendment in Ohio that would legalize same-sex marriage. “Now is the time to end marriage discrimination in Ohio," Fraser said. "Among great American traditions are: equal treatment under the law and religious freedom for all. These principles do not […]

Part of the SI photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice Outsports was the first outlet to report on the photo in Sports Illustrated that showed two male fans kissing in a San Francisco gay sports bar after the 49ers beat the Atlanta Falcons to reach the Super Bowl. We called it a first and the kiss photo […]

Schilling says he's never understood the 'issue' with gay players

The Bridgeport Sound Tigers will be the first team in the American Hockey League to host a night for the You Can Play Project, at their Feb. 23 game against the Manchester Monarchs. The game starts at 7 p.m. and there will be a panel discussion with You Can Play founder Patrick Burke at 5:30 […]