Jim Buzinski

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Volleyball, 2011: Michael, a professional volleyball player in Brazil, took the court at an opponent's gym this spring for a playoff match and was taunted all game by 3,000 fans chanting "bicha," or faggot. Fed up with the abuse, Michael disclosed […]

The second video in Outsports’ partnership with the It Gets Better Project comes from Kirk Walker, the head softball coach at Oregon State. Walker was first profiled by Outsports in 2007 as the only openly gay male coach in Division I sports. Said Walker: “I am in a unique situation. I am a Division I […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Sports 2007: NCAA President Myles Brand was an advocate for the rights of LGBT people in college sports. And when he died of cancer in 2009, he was remembered fondly by Helen Carroll, head of the sports program at the National […]

Julien Leparoux Twelve top American jockeys have stripped down for a 2012 calendar that will assist the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund. It costs $13.99 and is a good cause, and also shows these jockeys have some rocking bods. From the Albany Times Union: OK. Let’s just be frank. Jockeys are athletes. Many of them have […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Gay sports, 2003: It was not an amicable divorce. In 2001, the Federation of Gay Games awarded the 2006 Gay Games to Montreal. Just two years later, after charges and countercharges, the contract was still not signed and Chicago was awarded […]

The Baltimore Orioles became the fourth Major League Baseball team to produce a video for the It Gets Better Project to fight teen bullying. The Orioles were proactive in getting the word out, sending us this background on the video: The Orioles today announced that they have released an 80-second anti-bullying video public service announcement […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Sports, 2011: Sean Avery was not the first pro athlete to come out for gay marriage (NFL players Scott Fujita and Brendan Ayanbadejo beat him to it), but his announcement this spring made bigger news. Avery made a video to support […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Hurling, 2009: Hurling is an unknown sport in the U.S., but it is huge in Ireland, so the coming out of star player Donal Óg Cusack was a milestone for the country. Cusack is the first elite Irish athlete to come […]

Wrestler Akil Patterson with the first video Outsports is excited to announce a new partnership with the It Gets Better Project™. Together the two organizations will feature videos by out LGBT people in sports. We have begun contacting athletes, coaches and administrators whose coming out stories have appeared on Outsports to make videos, and the […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Baseball, 2011: The "It Gets Better" project started last September as a response to a spate of suicides by gay and lesbian young people. Since then, more than 10,ooo videos have been produced and viewed a collective 35 million times. Sports […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Softball, 2010: The 2008 Gay Softball World Series was not initially noteworthy, but the lawsuit filed in April 2010 from an incident in that event made national news. The National Center for Lesbian Rights, representing three players from a San Francisco […]

Thanks to photographer Brent for this terrific shot he took recently of Lopez, a Spanish player on the professional tennis tour:

Sherri Murrell is a trailblazer in college basketball, living her life openly in Div. 1.

Brendan Burke’s family has a long history in hockey and the NHL. He added to it.

The Chicago White Sox have offered to support the Gay Softball World Series in Chicago, but declined a request to have player Gordon Beckham throw out the ceremonial first pitch. Beckham got in hot water and apologized after writing “Getz is gay” in the infield of a July 4 game with the Kansas City Royals. […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Football, 1998. Greg Congdon is a reluctant gay pioneer. Reluctant because he was outed when he was 17 and still playing high school football. But he has endured and hopes to become a forceful voice in the fight for gay equality […]

ESPN is being criticized by a media watchdog group for giving too much attention to the issue of gays in sports. The Media Research Center Network, a media critique site run by self-described social and religious conservatives, is upset with ESPN’s recent coverage. Gay ‘rights’ and same-sex marriage have been all over the news lately. […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Multisports, 1992: The Gay Games started in 1982 and had been held in North American cities until 1998. In Europe, the EuroGames were created in 1992 to allow more participation from the continent. The first EuroGames in The Hague, Netherlands, was […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Football, 1992. There have only been three openly gay NFL players and most people can name two, Dave Kopay and Esera Tuaolo. There is a third, former Redskins and Giants offensive lineman Roy Simmons. But his story is less well-known. After […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Basketball, 2005: Harris was kicked off Penn State's basketball team in 2005 by coach Rene Portland, who accused her of being a lesbian. Portland had a long history of homophobia, claiming she would not have lesbians on her team. In December […]