Jim Buzinski

We posted a column by Charley Sullivan, associate head rowing coach at the University of Michigan, where he talks about how being openly gay has helped make him a better coach. It's obvious from the contact I had with Sullivan that the Michigan rowing team is a cohesive and successful group and, being college students, […]

Boston Alley Gators (click image for larger view) Story and photos by Ross Forman Shortly after the champagne stopped spraying, the tears started flowing. Joe Peltier, who plays outfield and catcher and also coaches the Boston Alley Gators in the B-Division, has been playing in the Gay Softball World Series since 1984 – and on […]

Charley Sullivan, right You should check out this powerful essay we posted by Charley Sullivan, the associate head coach of the University of Michigan's rowing team. In it he talks about being unapologetically out his entire career and how it has made him a better coach. While I know it’s fashionable, and even somewhat expected, […]

Two decades of openly queer college coaching, or, how my both being out of the closet and unapologetically gay has helped make my teams winners. By Charley SullivanAssociate Head Coach, Men’s RowingUniversity of MichiganThis is not a coaching coming out story; it’s a coaching while already being out story, which is, perhaps, a different animal […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Sports, 2006: Sports Illustrated polled players in the four major North American team and asked if they would welcome an openly gay teammates. In all four sports, a majority said yes. The highest percentage of support was in the NHL, at […]

Troy Aikman is still mad that sportswriter Skip Bayless speculated 16 years ago in a book that the then Dallas Cowboys quarterback might be gay.

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Figure skating, 2006: Johnny Weir was one of the great characters of the 2006 Winter Olympics. He said whatever popped into his mind and the media ate it up. It was obvious that Weir was gay, but his coyness about the […]

Bingham died on Sept. 11, 2001, as one of the passengers who stormed a cockpit manned by hijackers.

Outsports' 2011 list of the 100 most important moments in LGBT sports history features the Gay Rodeo at No. 35.

Thanks to Joe in Philly for alerting us that the Philadelphia Phillies have released a video for the It Gets Better project featuring Chase Utley, Roy Halladay, Hunter Pence, John Mayberry, Jr. and Michael Stutes. The Phillies, with the Major League's best record, join the growing list of baseball teams that have produced the anti-bullying […]

Philipp Lahm is captain of the German soccer team and he has a new book out where he denies rumors he’s gay, says he doesn’t have a problem with gays but that gay players should stay in the closet anyway. AP has these excerpts: “First, I am not a homosexual. I am not married to […]

Note: Bumped to the top of the blog since it has gotten an interesting dialogue going. We have written a lot celebrating how it has gotten better for many gay teenage athletes, profiling several this year with their heartwarming stories of acceptance. But this story out of Northumberland County in Ontario, Canada, reminds us that […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Pro football, 2002: Then New York Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey created a media stir when he declared that he would not want a gay teammate. His reasoning? The showers, of course. From our story at the time: In a Sept. […]

Pairs bodybuilding Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Multisports, 1990: After being held twice in San Francisco, the Gay Games got more international when they were staged Aug. 4-11 in Vancouver. These were the first Gay Games I attended and I was hooked; I have been to […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Horse racing, 1975: John Damien, a jockey, trainer and racing steward, was living the good life when he was told by the Ontario Racing Commission that he would not be retained. The reason? Damien was gay. As reported by Xtra in […]

The 15 members of the Bethany College Fighting Swedes golf team have been suspended for three tournaments after posing naked for a team photo (with golf clubs hiding the naughty parts). From KAKE: The men posed with the head of their golf club covering their private parts. The picture was then posted on facebook with […]

LaRon Landry A funny sideline moment with former Washington Redskin Charles Mann doing an awkward sideline interview with LaRon Landry (O.J. Atogwe is watching). Mann tells Landry he "looks fantastic" but makes it very clear it's in a 100% non-homoerotic, non-gay way: LaRon Landry A funny sideline moment with former Washington Redskin Charles Mann doing […]

Hudson Taylor (photo by Lewis Payton) Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Wrestling, 2010: In February 2010 I wrote an article about wrestler Hudson Taylor taking a stand for gay rights. Taylor was then a nationally ranked 198-pounder on the University of Maryland team. The article became […]

Photo by Bret Grafton By Ross Forman Bob Strada played second base in 1983 for the Chicago Sidetrack softball team that won the championship in the Gay Softball World Series, run by the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Association. That ’83 Series was the last time Chicago hosted the annual, multi-day tournament and the first […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. College basketball, 2007: Rene Portland had a simple rule during her 27 years as Penn State's women's basketball team — no lesbians were allowed. Finally, in 2007, after the culmination of a lawsuit by former player Jen Harris and fought by […]