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Blake Skjellerup for NoH8 (Adam Bouska photo). Blake Skjellerup is one of our favorite openly gay athletes. He competed in short track speedskating at the 2010 Winter Olympics and is hoping to make the New Zealand team for 2014 in Sochi, Russia. But he has no sponsors and needs money to train and compete. You […]

Supporters of Spanish Fort High School in Alabama thought they were being clever when they unfurled a sign during a nationally televised game on ESPN on Monday that read “Purple? Man, that’s GAY.” Spanish Fort’s opponent was Daphne High, whose team colors are purple. These same fans also put up a sign that read "Daphne, […]

Australian diver Matthew Mitcham was asked by a fan on Twitter what his upcoming autobiography “Twists and Turns” will be about. His answer? “Hellooo!?! All about me darling! Content seems fiction, but is not. My life be craaaay.” Mitcham's book, published by HarperCollins Australia in December, will look at the life of the diver who […]

Trevor Mbakwe (Photo: Brace Hemmelgarn-US PRESSWIRE) The fight against a proposed amendment in Minnesota to prohibit same-sex marriage has a new sports ally in Trevor Mbakwe, senior forward for the University of Minnesota basketball team. Mbakwe, who led the the Big Ten in rebounding a year ago, wrote an open letter that was posted by […]

Pia Sundhage managed the USWNT from 2007 to 2012.

6 We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. Football is finally started and it couldn't have happened soon enough. This week’s offerings include NFL preseason (where we get to see more candid shots of the players), U.S. Open tennis, the introduction of NHL rookies, major league lacrosse, rugby celebrations and an Aussie […]

Tennis star Novak Djokovic won himself a whole bunch of new fans in his response to a boy yelling to him from the stands at the U.S. Open: “Will you marry me?” Same-sex marriage is legal in New York, though the boy is certainly not of age. Djokovic was hitting balls at a practice session […]

The gay sports bar Boxers in New York City has received approval for a liquor license at a second Hell’s Kitchen location, a year after an earlier attempt ran into trouble. The website DNAinfo reports that this new location has been found more acceptable: Community Board 4’s liquor license committee gave the OK to Boxers’ […]

“Back on Board: Greg Louganis,” a documentary about the life of the Olympic gold medal diver, is up for consideration as project of the month from the Indiewire website. The winner gets a consultation with the Tribeca Film Institute. You can vote here. The voting ends Friday and right now the Louganis film by Cheryl […]

Chris Pontius (Photo: Paul Frederiksen-US PRESSWIRE) DC United is the first team to produce a video for the You Can Play Project, in a spot featuring Head Coach Ben Olsen, midfielder-forward Chris Pontius, and defender Mike Chabala. United is the first Major League Soccer team to do a video, though United did an It Gets […]

People across the Blue Devils athletic department welcome LGBT athletes

When Donal Óg Cusack came out in 2009 as an openly gay athlete in the Irish sport of hurling, it was huge news. He was the most prominent gay Irish athlete ever and his coming out was a milestone for the culture. Last week, he delivered the keynote speech at a pride event in Foyle, […]

“I hated myself, I hated myself for what I was,” Thomas “Bozzy” Boswell says at the beginning of his wonderfully moving 12-minute YouTube video (see below) detailing his experience as a closeted gay teenager and his triumphant coming out story. As the captain of his rugby team in Quaker Yards, Wales, Boswell was trying to […]

The San Francisco 49ers are the first NFL team to produce a video for the It Gets Better Project, which fights bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender teens. Delivering the message on behalf of the team are four members of the Niners defense: Ricky Jean Francois, Isaac Sopoaga, Donte Whitner and Ahmad Brooks. The […]

9 We present our favorite photos of the past sports week, our first since the London Olympics (where we ran 20 galleries during the Games). This week’s offerings include NFL preseason, college football practice, mixed martial arts, English Premier League soccer and Aussie Rules Football players in training sessions. 9 We present our favorite photos […]

Nyad being helped from water after her recent attempt. Diana Nyad tried for the fourth time to swim from Cuba to Florida, the attempt this week as she turned 63. With the help of her extensive support staff, Nyad was able to navigate sharks, hypothermia and fatigue, but it was jellyfish that eventually forced her […]

Olympic gold medal swimmer Ryan Lochte doesn’t have grand plans for his post-Olympics life, unless you consider being on “The Bachelor” reaching for the stars. He has appeared on the red carpet for “WWE SummerSlam,” been on TV with Joan Rivers talking fashion and spent his birthday in Vegas cavorting in a pool filled with […]

Charlie Rogers (photo via Omaha World-Herald) Charlie Rogers, a former player on the University of Nebraska women's basketball team, crawled naked from her Lincoln home on July 22, bleeding from what she said were gay slurs carved into her body. Police now say she faked the whole thing and have charged her with making a […]

Stephen Bickford was a highly recruited prep soccer player who attended the University of North Carolina in the middle of the last decade, but never realized his potential. He chalks this up to the incredible emotional strain of living as a closeted gay athlete. Bickford, 26 on Aug. 26, tells his story in a well-written […]

One of the most eloquent and charismatic straight athlete allies for gay rights is David Pocock, an Australian rugby player. He and his partner, Emma, won’t marry until gays and lesbians have the same rights in Australia. He is up front and proud of his support for same-sex marriage, a hot topic being debated in […]