Jim Buzinski

Images from the 2010 Hypo meet in Austria.

Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination bill is proposed as new legislation

Now that the Olympics are a distant memory, swimmer Michael Phelps is indulging perhaps his real sporting passion — cheering on the Baltimore Ravens. The Baltimore native is a huge fan of the Ravens, a constant presence at games, and was on hand as they beat the New England Patriots in Foxboro, Mass., to reach […]

Super Bowl XLVIII is set with the San Francisco 49ers meeting the Baltimore Ravens. The Niners are early 4.5-point favorites. It’s the first Super Bowl matching head coaching brothers, Jim (49ers) and John (Ravens) Harbaugh. It will also be the last game of Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis, the most annoying player in the NFL. I […]

As I am writing this item, “faggot” has been posted 24,000 times on Twitter in one day, “no homo” 8,000 times, “so gay” 7,600 times and dyke 2,900 times. This comes courtesy of nohomophobes.com, which keeps a daily track as it calls attention to the widespread use of homophobic language. The site is run by […]

Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was a guest on “The Colbert Report” to discuss his support of marriage equality and gay rights in general. It was great to see an NFL player talking gay rights on national TV. There is nothing newsworthy about what Kluwe said (he has been articulate on the issue throughout), though […]

Daniel Rajcsanyi, who goes by “Dani,” is a 20-year-old openly gay German snowboarder from Munich and a free spirit. In his bio on the Isenseven snowboarding site, he describes some of his hobbies as “playing World of Warcraft, speed dating and wanking.” So it's not a surprise that he would film a video of himself […]

It’s been extremely hot in Australia, including Melbourne, site of the Australia Open, which starts next week. Speaking of hot, that would be Andy Murray, the British player who won the Olympic gold medal in August and the U.S. Open in September and who has put on more muscle as the 2013 season starts. Murray […]

Joshua McKinley of the Lifetime show “Project Runway All Stars,” was an openly gay multisport athlete at his Cleveland area high school and he is designing a dress as a fund-raiser for the school. McKinley, 27, was a high school star in the 300-meter hurdles and also swam and ran cross-country. He told the Cleveland […]

Member of the All Blacks at a December match. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images) The All Blacks are the team in rugby-mad New Zealand, so if a player came out as gay that would be huge news there, as big as an NFL player coming out in the U.S. Calls are now coming from New […]

I always get amused and a bit peeved when someone will argue that gay guys are obsessed with sex. My retort is that guys are obsessed with sex, whether gay, straight, bi or questioning. Exhibit #5 trillion is the Twitter explosion over Katherine Webb, the girlfriend of Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron. Webb is Miss Alabama, […]

Cade Foster Alabama plays Notre Dame for the BCS title at the Orange Bowl tonight. Ugh and double ugh. While ESPN is orgasming over what will be a highly rated game, I find myself not caring since I can't stand either team (and this is a common feeling, at least in the circle of people […]

Matt Jarvis, a player on the West Ham soccer club in the English Premier League, is on the cover of the British gay magazine Attitude urging gay players to come out of the closet. “It’s everyday life. It’s not something that’s going to be a shock,” said Jarvis, himself married. “I’m sure there are many […]

The Baltimore Raven is the latest NFL player to join the pro-LGBT group

Scott Norton kissed his husband on ESPN after a win and the network didn't shy away from it.

Brendon Ayanbadejo (from his Twitter feed.) Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo has been perhaps the most outspoken pro athlete for gay rights and he continues to give great interviews. The latest is with Alex Marvez of Fox Sports, where Ayanbadejo theorizes that there are not as many gay NFL players as gay people in the […]

The Federation of Gay Games has given the five bidding cities for the 2018 event permission to add as many as six new sports. The six are: archery, boxing, fencing, pétanque, roller derby, wheelchair rugby. Pétanque is basically lawn bowling on dirt and popular in France. Gay Games bid cities can request that certain sports […]

Suso (Photo by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images) The English Premier League, unlike the NFL, takes gay slurs on Twitter seriously. It has fined Liverpool star Suso $16,000 for calling teammate Jose Enrique "gay" on Twitter. Suso sparked protests last month when he posted a photo on the micro-blogging website of Reds defender Enrique having his teeth […]

Axel Witsel is the only black player on Zenit St Petersburg. (Photo by Claudio Villa/Getty Images) Any gay person or person of color thinking about venturing to Russia for either the 2014 Winter Olympics or 2018 World Cup needs to realize they won't be a welcome in a country that is still quite racist and […]

Ryan Lochte Olympic-level swimmers were back in the pool for the first time since London with the FINA short-course swimming championships this past weekend in Istanbul, Turkey. We have a photo gallery below. Among the big winners was American Ryan Lochte, who won six golds and one silver. And in a totally cool gesture, Lochte […]