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Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Rugby league, 1995: Ian Roberts was a top-level professional player in Australia's rugby league. And he came out openly as gay to a gay magazine while still playing. He is one of the very few players from a major world team […]

“Sam I Am” is a new blog written by Sam, a 16-year-old high school junior in Pennsylvania. In ninth grade he was on the school swim team, but he quit his sophomore season, feeling inadequate and lonely, which he chalks up to wrestling with his sexuality. Sam now intends to rejoin his swim team this […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Basketball, 1991: Magic Johnson's announcement on Nov. 7, 1991, that he had tested positive for HIV and was retiring from the NBA was the biggest story in America. Johnson was a superstar — every network carried the press conference live and […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history.Diving, 1994: “Welcome to the Gay Games, it’s great to be out and proud.” With those words, gold medal Olympic diver Greg Louganis delivered a message to the Opening Ceremonies of Gay Games IV in New York. While it might have been […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Basketball 2007: Amaechi played for two of his five NBA seasons for the Utah Jazz for an owner who, after Amaechi had left the team, refused to show "Brokeback Mountain" in his theaters because of the gay theme. So it was […]

King of the Hardwood Eric Decker had two more TDs How I saw Week 2 of the NFL. The Bills win a wild one; the Dream Team loses; King of the Hardwood shines, plus hot player of the week and quick hits: It's way too early to make any declarative statements about the league. It's […]

Former NFL player Esera Tuaolo coming out was our #16 Outsports moment, as named in 2011.

The latest video in Outsports’ partnership with the It Gets Better Project comes from Mari Burningham, head volleyball coach at the University of Redlands in Southern California. Burningham became known to Outsports readers after she wrote a powerful story about being a Mormon lesbian at BYU. In her video, Burningham details how things have gotten […]

We’ve been big fans of Eric Decker since he played for the University of Minnesota. Now with the Denver Broncos, Decker won the 2011 King of the Hardwood contest, voted on by Outsports readers as the world’s hottest athlete. It was cool that after winning, Decker tweeted a thanks to fans for voting for him. […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Media, 1998: ESPN made the issue of gays in sports the centerpiece for coverage on the air and online in late 1998 and into 1999. "The World of the Gay Athlete" was groundbreaking in that a major mainstream media outlet devoted […]

Jonathan De Falco, 27, had been a professional soccer player for the Belgium team Racing Mechelen. But he left the sport this year after an injury to get into the gay porn business. His porn name is Stany Falcone and he says he is doing well. “For several months I have had a boyfriend,” De […]

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 […]

You can’t get anything past Outsports reader Texas DayTripper. He was watching the Seattle Seahawks-San Francisco 49ers game today and saw something that made him stand up and take notice. Seattle long snapper Clint Gresham wasn't feeling all that comfortable and just had to do a reach in, grab and adjust. We've all been there, […]

The Bills’ new look is sharp Bills prove that looks win out; Romo gags one up for Cowboys; Colts, Steelers look ugly; Watch Tom Brady's Ugg's commercial, hot player of the week. How I saw Week 1 of the NFL, which we all over-analyze for meaning:Looks matter: Last week, I wrote about a silly but […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Figure skating, 1976: Days before the March world figure skating championships in Sweden, Britain skating star John Curry was outed by a German newspaper. The news caused a brief stir but was generally ignored by the media and public. Just a […]

Denver’s Eric Decker was not part of the survey There is a fun, but utterly meaningless piece in today's Wall Street Journal that attempts to rate the attractiveness of all 32 NFL teams. The no-duh revelation is that NFL players are overall better looking than the general population. And it found the Buffalo Bills the […]

Lions QB Matthew Stafford I was asked this year to write an NFL preview column for AfterElton and had fun doing it. With the season starting today, I would love to hear how others view the season. As a Colts fan, this season is starting on a down note. Peyton Manning had another neck surgery […]

The latest video in Outsports’ partnership with the It Gets Better Project comes from Brenner Green, who is starting his senior year at Connecticut College. Brenner became known to Outsports readers after he wrote about how coming out gave him more confidence as a runner. I like Brenner's use of humor in the video, especially […]

Aaron Rodgers It was strange that in a game that saw 76 points scored, a ton of big offensive plays and two kick returns for scores, that the NFL opener between the Saints and Packers came down to a yard. The Packers stuffed Saints rookie running back Mark Ingram on the last play of the […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Baseball, 1988: Dave Pallone was never one to back down from a confrontation, good traits for an umpire. He was famously known for an April 1988 for an onfield incident where he went chest-to-chest with Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose. But […]