Jim Buzinski

The best advice to gay soccer fans who want to attend the Euro 2012 soccer games in Ukraine is don’t. And if you do, keep a very low profile. Ukraine is hosting the big event with Poland starting Friday. Amnesty International Ukraine campaigner Max Tucker told the Independent in Ireland: “Gay football fans will have […]

15 We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include the NFL minicamps, the French Open, Major League Baseball, college baseball, the NBA playoffs, international swimming, track and field and a rugby celebration. Click image for larger, full-sized view: 15 We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. […]

Editor’s note: When we published the story of then-15-year-old high school volleyball player Galen Dodd in October, he was the youngest person to come out on Outsports. We asked him to reflect on the impact of his story since. By Galen Dodd It's awesome when a teammate has your back. I learned that after I […]

Sam Stosur (Photo by Susan Mullane-US PRESSWIRE) Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia, was beaten in straight sets 6-4, 6-1 by Sam Stosur of Australia in the quarterfinals of the French Open. She then complained that she lost to Stosur because, as Tennis.com reports: “Her topspin and her serve, I mean, she played like a man, and […]

Mitch Stein (Patch.com photo) Last fall, we wrote about Mitch Stein, an openly gay man who was fired as a junior varsity water polo coach after old pictures surfaced of him in drag and of him playfully eating a corn dog. Stein is now suing Charter Oak High School in Covina, Calif. for " 'animus […]

Sydney Convicts in action at the Bingham Cup The Sydney Convicts are bringing the Bingham Cup rugby trophy back to Australia. The Convicts completed a sweep of the tournament this weekend in Manchester, England, winning the A division, 22-5, over the San Francisco Fog and the B division, 13-3, over the Dallas Diablos. "A great […]

The International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics championships have wrapped up in Reykjavik, Iceland, with the big winners being Team New York Aquatics. They took first place in water polo, the large team category and Pink Flamingo. This is the first time one team won all three categorizes, according to Charlie Carson of TNYA. Results and […]

June 1 update: Hysen and his partner Sigrid Bernson won the title. He just tweeted: Original story: Swedish soccer player Anton Hysen, who came out as gay last year, has reached the finals of the Swedish TV show "Let's Dance" (their version of "Dancing With the Stars."). A British betting website has made Hysen (and […]

Here is an awesome story from the Indianapolis Star about 13-year-old diver Jordan Pisey Windle. He is an orphan from Cambodia who was adopted in 2000 by Jerry Windle. Years later, Windle met and fell in love with Andrés Rodriguez and now Jordan has two dads. He filmed an It Gets Better video (below) and […]

15 We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include the national collegiate lacrosse champs, the Stanley Cup Finals, divers getting ready for London, track and field, Aussie Rules Football, the French Open, and NFL minicamps featuring Peyton Manning in his new uniform. Click image for larger, full-sized view: 15 […]

Gareth Thomas is naked in the UK gay mag Attitude The sixth Bingham Cup rugby tournament is being held this weekend in Manchester, England, and will be bigger than ever, with 37 teams from 15 countries. It will also have on hand two pro rugby players who have teamed up on a campaign to fight […]

Before Tuesday, Serena Williams was 46-0 in the first round of tennis’ majors. Make that 46-1 after she was stunned 6-4, 6-7 (13), 3-6, by the No. 111-ranked Virginie Razzano of France. Outsports reader and tennis fanatic Mdterp01 had picked Williams to win the French Open just hours before her loss, then responded: Before Tuesday, […]

Matthew Mitcham, defending champion in the Olympic 10-meter platform diving, and the rest of the Australian diving team met the media in Brisbane to discuss the London Olympics and pose for photos. Mitcham, who is openly gay and the biggest star of the team with his gold medal from 2008, got the most attention. “I […]

Akil Patterson One of Outsports' favorites, Greco Roman wrestler and former University of Maryland football player Akil Patterson, popped the question to his partner Louis Billings this weekend. He said yes. The proposal was made via Facebook, as Patterson relates: We had been in the car visiting his hometown (San Diego). We stopped at a […]

1 We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include a soccer celebration, Aussie Rules Football, English rugby, the NBA playoffs, track and field, baseball (including Bryce Harper's hair), lacrosse and NFL minicamps featuring perennial faves Jason Witten, Danny Amendola and Alex Smith. Click image for larger, full-sized view: 1 […]

This is not an article from the Onion. There actually is a Catholic group called Courage that is holding a sports weekend as a way for men to channel their same-sex urges into more manly pursuits. From the Philadelphia Daily News: This weekend a group of men will gather at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary to […]

British human rights lawyer and writer Mark Stephens has written a provocative article arguing that LGBT rights be the centerpiece of the London Olympics. Nations that still criminalize homosexuality should be banned by the International Olympic Committee, he argues, just like South Africa was under apartheid until 1992. He writes in the Guardian: When people […]

Visitors to Outsports recently may have thought they had stumbled across the Focus on the Family website by accident, given all the comments by anti-gay religious zealots. I expect this whenever we write about Tim Tebow — he has a passionate fundamentalist fan base, which takes umbrage to anything negative written about him, even if […]

What I like most about the 30-second video done for the You Can Play project by Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik is that it’s just him speaking into the camera. The result is a simple but powerful message about inclusion in the sport. Says Orpik in the video: What matters to me and my teammates? […]

With the Olympics in London this summer, it’s only fitting that portraits and photos of gold medal diver Matthew Mitcham will be featured as part of an exhibit in the city for Australian artist Ross Watson. As part of the run-up to the Sept. 25 exhibit opening, actor Sir Ian McKellen has signed a print […]