4th of July fireworks and duds in LGBT sports
A national holiday is no reason not to recap the big stories from the past 7 days of LGBTQ sports coverage.
By Dawn Ennis | July 4, 2020A national holiday is no reason not to recap the big stories from the past 7 days of LGBTQ sports coverage.
By Dawn Ennis | July 4, 2020This was shaping up to be MiLB’s best Pride Night season ever. Then 2020 happened.
By Ken Schultz | July 1, 2020In an exceptional essay, Desmond rips baseball’s prejudiced culture, detailing stories of racism and homophobia in clubhouses.
By Alex Reimer | July 1, 2020The baseball legend’s fortitude and courage in the face of innumerable obstacles is something with which we can all identify.
By Ken Schultz | June 30, 2020Just as Pride is not limited to June, we should tip our caps to the players of the Negro League all year long.
By Dawn Ennis | June 29, 2020Our friends at the McCovey Chronicles reveal you can attend every San Francisco Giants home game this summer for a grand total of just $99. Kinda sorta.
By Outsports | June 26, 2020The Wilson glove is an experiment, and Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle says he is “so stoked with how it came out.”
By Dawn Ennis | June 18, 2020Before he came out as gay following his career, Glenn Burke brought a new way of celebrating to baseball and the world.
By Ken Schultz | June 18, 2020Kings Special Events Sales Director Karl Crudup will be part of Outsports’ conversation Thursday about how to push for more LGBTQ inclusion in pro sports.
By Alex Reimer | June 17, 2020Tamia “Tee” Barnard of the Bronx is one of five recipients of this year’s Yankees-Stonewall Scholarship.
By Alex Reimer | June 16, 20205 out employees at pro-sports teams joined us to talk about how to push for more LGBTQ inclusion from your favorite team.
By Cyd Zeigler | June 16, 2020Red Sox Pride Night returns after a one-year hiatus.
By Alex Reimer | June 10, 2020Phil Bildner planned to discuss his new novel, ‘A High Five for Glenn Burke,’ until a school parents’ association caved to prejudice.
By Ken Schultz | June 5, 2020In an emotional letter, Bean shares with Burke how his two former teams are pushing for more LGBTQ acceptance.
By Billy Bean | May 28, 2020Outsports is joining SB Nation and our sister sites in reflecting on sports moments that brought us to tears. This lifelong Mets fan has a lot to choose from.
By Dawn Ennis | May 26, 2020We love them, root for them, make movies about them, but what qualifies someone to be an “underdog”?
By Karleigh Webb | May 20, 2020A solid but unheralded acquisition that July, Mike Montgomery became the hero Chicago needed.
By Ken Schultz | May 19, 2020Royals marketing executive Matt Schulte’s job is usually dependent on having fans in the stadium. With the coronavirus, he says he has to be more innovative than ever.
By Alex Reimer | May 18, 2020Outsports joins SB Nation in the latest theme week: Underdogs, beginning with the “Miracle” Mets, their MVP and their biggest fan, our managing editor.
By Dawn Ennis | May 18, 2020It’s “What If? Week” at SB Nation, and today, Outsports is imagining a world in which sexual orientation or gender identity is treated as no big deal in major pro sports leagues.
By Alex Reimer | May 12, 2020