Outsports photos of the week
This week's selection includes baseball's All-Star Game, Tom Daley getting ready for the world diving championships, UFC and more Aussie jocks in the surf. More from Out Sports:
By Jim Buzinski | July 18, 2013This week's selection includes baseball's All-Star Game, Tom Daley getting ready for the world diving championships, UFC and more Aussie jocks in the surf. More from Out Sports:
By Jim Buzinski | July 18, 2013George Burgess is an English-born player in the National Rugby League of Australia, where he plays for the Sydney Rabbitohs. He has a twin brother, Tom, who also plays on the same team and two other brothers — Sam and Luke — who are also ruggers. At 6-5 and 21 years old, George is a […]
By Jim Buzinski | July 17, 2013The now-openly gay NBA player still does not have a team, but it's early in free agency and he's been here before.
By Jim Buzinski | July 16, 2013"Major League Baseball has a zero-tolerance policy for harassment and discrimination," Commissioner Bud Selig says.
By Jim Buzinski | July 15, 2013Our latest roundup of gay sports news features a beautiful column written by Chuck Culpepper on wrestling coach Roger Brigham; a feature on gay athletes at the University of Georgia, where a football star is a straight ally; and pro soccer clubs standing up against homophobia. Years after a deathwatch, a coach is still inspiring. […]
By Jim Buzinski | July 15, 2013The Australian diver raises money for gay marriage, strips for charity.
By Jim Buzinski | July 15, 2013Pro soccer player Robbie Rogers gave his first interview to a gay publication as the cover model for Out magazine's sports issue. It's a Q&A with editor Matthew Breen that is well done, and the part that was new was Rogers opening up a bit for the first time about his private life with these […]
By Jim Buzinski | July 14, 2013Next year's Winter Olympics are in Sochi, Russia, and come on the heels of Russia enacting horribly repressive laws that basically criminalize homosexuality. The laws are among the most punitive in the world and a giant step back for gay rights. Against this backdrop, gay Winter Olympians will have to consider how open they want […]
By Jim Buzinski | July 12, 2013The longtime ally of gay athletes stars in ad for new fragrance.
By Jim Buzinski | July 11, 2013Former NBA player Tim Hardaway continues to show the power of redemption. The man who in 2007 famously said "I hate gay people" last week was the first person to sign a petition for a ballot initiative to allow same-sex marriage in Florida. "If you're married you're married – you should see your significant other […]
By Jim Buzinski | July 10, 2013Olympic medal-winning British gymnast Louis Smith graces the cover of Gay Times magazine clad only in a light-blue bikini-type swimsuit (see below). He certainly does not mind being ogled by gay men and even bit when asked if he was gay, who would he want to be with. "I got asked this the other day […]
By Jim Buzinski | July 10, 2013A roundup of gay sports news includes the first interview with the woman Jason Collins was set to marry, and video of two UFC fighters "kissing." Jason Collins Is My Ex-Fiancé And I Had No Idea He Was Gay – Cosmopolitan"I empathize with Jason and support him. But at the same time, I remain deeply […]
By Jim Buzinski | July 9, 2013If the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is a rite of winter (at least for straight men), ESPN The Magazine's body issue is a summer staple in what is a slow sports time. At least the magazine features men, unlike Sports Illustrated, and this year 20 athletes stripped down for tasteful nude shots. Among the men […]
By Jim Buzinski | July 9, 2013NHL player Tyler Seguin, just traded from the Boston Bruins to the Dallas Stars, is involved in another homophobic Twitter incident, this time claiming his account was hacked. This is a tweet from Seguin's account this weekend: “Only steers and queers in Texas, and I’m not a cow.” He then followed that up with this: […]
By Jim Buzinski | July 7, 2013Featuring Ryan Lochte, Nathan Adrian, Matt Grevers and soccer's Fernando Torres in the water.
By Jim Buzinski | July 5, 2013The best thing about the video from the University of California-Berkeley for the You Can Play Project is the diversity of sports and voices, maybe the most diverse I've seen in these things. There are appearances by Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, athletic director Sandy Barbour, football coach Sonny Dykes, men's basketball coach Mike Montgomery, women's basketball […]
By Jim Buzinski | July 1, 2013Freshman Pa. State Rep. Brian Sims, the first openly gay legislator in the state, will introduce a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania. This comes after an anti-gay marriage legislator stopped Sims from speaking on the House floor on the issue in Harrisburg because he would have offended "God's law." Sims and state Rep. […]
By Jim Buzinski | June 28, 2013The two U.S. Supreme Court rulings that advanced the rights of same sex couples to marry put into clearer focus the fact that major sports remain the final closet in American society. Gay marriage is still illegal in 37 states despite the Court action, but the writing is on the wall. Within two decades (if […]
By Jim Buzinski | June 27, 2013Action is first by a Major League Baseball team and comes during Seattle's pride parade.
By Jim Buzinski | June 26, 2013Our latest roundup of media coverage of gay sports includes Martina Navratilova on gay tennis players; Chris Kluwe and his new book; Charles Barkley; and the founder of a gay sports wesbite. Gay male players hide in the closet, say Martina Navratilova | Mail OnlineTennis great Martina Navratilova, 56, says gay men still feel oppressed […]
By Jim Buzinski | June 26, 2013