Jim Buzinski

Liz Carmouche remembers the fear she had while a U.S. Marine stationed in Iraq in 2006. A fear not only of the enemy outside but of her friends and colleagues inside. Those who made hurtful comments about gays and lesbians, including a close friend who said that if gay soldiers came out they should be […]

Images from the day at the track stadium, which included a lot of sprint medals.

Scenes from around the pools at swimming, water polo and diving. Photos by Outsports.com

The Dog Tag Project was started by Matt Freeman to bring awareness to the fight against Don't Ask Don't Tell. We asked several athletes at the Gay Games to model the project's dog tags.

There may have been more tattoos than athletes at Gay Games VIII in Cologne.

Scenes from the Gay Games 2010 opening ceremonies.

We visit wrestling, basketball and judo at Gay Games VIII in Cologne, Germany.

On Day 2 of the Gay Games, Outsports visited three events held several kilometers from the city center: Triathlon, Cycling and Inline Speed Skating.

The best from Gay Games bodybuilding.

Soccer is the largest event at the Gay Games, with more than 1,000 participants.

Barack Obama (Photo by Jack Gruber-USA TODAY) In what is almost certainly a first, an American president has endorsed a bid for a city to host the Gay Games, when President Obama put his support behind Orlando's bid to host the Gay Games X in 2018. The news, first reported by Watermark, came in the […]

Sean Karson is the third-baseman for MIT’s baseball team. He hit .350 as a sophomore last season and is co-captain of this year’s team. A chemistry and computer science major, Karson spent Super Bowl weekend at Facebook headquarters in California as part of a conference of LGBT tech students. He already has a tech startup […]

Arizona Cardinal responds to the notion that players joke about his sexual orientation

Atmosphere and laws in Russia represent potential problems for gay athletes

The top decathletes in the world meet in Austria.

Brendon Ayanbadejo at the Super Bowl (Matthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports) Chuck Culpepper has a great column in Sports on Earth talking about meeting Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo after the AFC Championship Game. I worked with Chuck years ago in Pasadena, Calif., and have always admired his work. I knew he was gay but also […]

Three out voices will contribute to the group's push for more straight allies

Simon Fraser, a linebacker on Ohio State’s 2002 national championship football team, has endorsed a proposed amendment in Ohio that would legalize same-sex marriage. “Now is the time to end marriage discrimination in Ohio," Fraser said. "Among great American traditions are: equal treatment under the law and religious freedom for all. These principles do not […]

Part of the SI photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice Outsports was the first outlet to report on the photo in Sports Illustrated that showed two male fans kissing in a San Francisco gay sports bar after the 49ers beat the Atlanta Falcons to reach the Super Bowl. We called it a first and the kiss photo […]

Schilling says he's never understood the 'issue' with gay players