‘Heterosexual bashing.’ St. Louis Cardinal fans mock former Minor League player
Some of "baseball's best fans" show their true colors.
By Jim Buzinski | March 16, 2016Some of "baseball's best fans" show their true colors.
By Jim Buzinski | March 16, 2016St. Louis Cardinals GM says the team will not ignore serious allegations of homophobia. The team is working with Billy Bean to determine the best path forward.
By Cyd Zeigler | March 16, 2016Tyler Dunnington wants to get back into baseball after spending one season in the Minor Leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals. He quit in 2015 after hearing teammates talk about killing gay people.
By Cyd Zeigler | March 16, 2016Ben Larison of Coe College looks back at his last two years, and talks about his hopes of landing a job in Major League Baseball.
By Cyd Zeigler | March 11, 2016Former Major League Baseball player Billy Bean says helping other lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people in baseball is a dream come true.
By Cyd Zeigler | March 8, 2016MLB has announced a partnership with the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.
By Cyd Zeigler | March 7, 2016Sports Equality Foundation helps out LGBT prospective employees cover travel costs to MLB Diversity Summit next week in Phoenix. Goal is to land out LGBT people in MLB front-office internships and jobs.
By Cyd Zeigler | March 1, 2016Showing gay couples at stadiums is a positive development.
By Jim Buzinski | February 18, 2016All of the Big Five pro-sports teams in Massachusetts have gotten behind a bill to prevent discrimination of transgender people.
By Cyd Zeigler | January 11, 2016Billy Bean is now MLB's vice-president of social responsibility and inclusion. Curtis Pride replaces Bean and will be the league's second Ambassador for Inclusion.
By Cyd Zeigler | January 7, 2016The Washington Nationals have had two employees come out publicly as gay in the last two months. Now they have signed the highest-profile anti-gay player in Major League Baseball.
By Cyd Zeigler | December 28, 2015Billy Bean has taken his position in Major League Baseball and made leaps and bounds for LGBT equality and visibility in the sport. He was the perfect person for the job.
By Outsports | December 18, 2015The baseball and basketball players win our most dubious award.
By Outsports | December 17, 2015Erik Braverman has been out in his private life for years. Braverman wants youth to know they can be out in pro sports.
By Cyd Zeigler | December 15, 2015Major League Baseball is proactively looking for out LGBT candidates to meet with team front offices about potential jobs. And one athlete didn't seem to like the way Gus Kenworthy came out.
By Outsports | November 19, 2015A three-sport athlete in high school, Jack Massari is now out and proud at the University of Connecticut. He even has turned a slur written on his car into a positive.
By Jack Massari | November 19, 2015Major League Baseball is targeting LGBT students and young professionals for careers with team front offices. Two current gay MLB executives talk publicly for the first time about the support from their teams, the Nationals and Orioles.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 17, 2015The veteran umpire talks about his first season as an openly gay and being at the center of one of the wildest playoff games ever.
By Jim Buzinski | November 12, 2015Author based book on his love of baseball and wanting an openly gay sports role model.
By Jim Buzinski | November 9, 2015"Tolerance is the virtue that is killing this country," he says after Houston's LGBT bill is defeated.
By Jim Buzinski | November 5, 2015