Gay Fox Sports crew member Ryan Sifferman will be sharing his thoughts from Sochi as an out gay man throughout the Winter Olympics. For this entry, he talks about using Scruff to navigate Moscow.
By Ryan Sifferman | February 6, 2014Friestad grew up in Plano, Texas, and was fully supported by his high school team. He had to come out again at Div. 1 New Jersey Institute of Technology, and he was embraced.
By Cyd Zeigler | February 6, 2014The Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusion released this ad on the eve of the start of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia: Hat tip to Ad Age, which also had a story about the five gay nesting dolls sent to the Kremlin.
By Jim Buzinski | February 5, 2014So far we have seven out Winter Olympians, all women. There are no out Americans.
By Outsports | February 5, 2014Scott Cooper just finished his senior season. He found true acceptance on his Augsburg College football team, which included him being asked by a coach to speak on National Coming Out Day and introducing his partner at Senior Day.
By Scott Cooper | February 5, 2014Cooper talks football, religion and his future.
By Outsports | February 5, 2014Welcome everyone to my first installment for Sochi 2014 on figure skating. But before I get started, I’d like to tip my hat to my local Vancouver Councilmen, Tim Stevenson, who is in Sochi as an official Canadian representative to present something that country desperately is lacking, a human conscience. After the mayor of Sochi […]
By Chad Conley | February 5, 2014Russia might be trying to outlaw the gay, but the toilets at some venues at the Sochi Winter Olympics make it quite easy for two dudes to get together without arousing suspicion: On the other hand, given that Russia is monitoring all communications within Sochi and will store the data for three years, there's a […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 4, 2014Remote Pride Houses and Uprising Of Love offer the opportunity during the Opening Ceremony to give back to the community -- and donate to LGBT groups in Russia -- while respecting the athletes we want to stand up for us.
By Cyd Zeigler | February 4, 2014There's a reason skaters tiptoe around issue of gay rights and their own orientation.
By Lorrie Kim | February 4, 2014Whitney found complete acceptance from his Walla Walla Community College baseball team when he came out to them just days after his then-boyfriend, Conner Mertens, came out to his college football team.
By Cyd Zeigler | February 3, 2014Vilma again takes a swing at gay men, assuming they all want to see him naked and worrying about what to do if he knew one of them did.
By Cyd Zeigler | February 3, 2014Homophobia in women's sports, and transphobia in all sports, have other key issues. But to end homophobia in men's sports, football is the biggest game in town.
By Cyd Zeigler | February 3, 2014Finnish Olympic swimmer Ari-Pekka Liukkonen, 24, has come out publicly as gay in reaction to anti-gay laws passed in Russia."I wanted to join the discussion in relation to Sochi, since it is a sad fact that the Russian gay law affects negatively Russian young people's lives and infringes human rights in general, Ari-Pekka told the […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 2, 2014Peyton Manning is my favorite athlete of all time, so here is my recap of Super Bowl XLVIII, won by Seattle over Denver, 43-8: I have nothing more to add. The highlight was Joe Namath screwing up the coin toss. It was downhill from there. If you care about the game, you can check out […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 2, 2014Out gay coach turns Saunders boys basketball program around headed into the final stretch
By Cyd Zeigler | February 1, 2014Saturday Night Live shows the sordid details of Men's Heterosexual Figure Skating
By Cyd Zeigler | January 27, 2014We have our first comments this year at the Super Bowl regarding the acceptance of gay players in the NFL. From the Twitter feed of Paul Domowitch of the Philadelphia Daily News: Must Reads Gay guide to the Super Bowl Jim Buzinski Must Reads Gay guide to the Super Bowl Broncos CB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie was […]
By Jim Buzinski | January 27, 2014Ryan Sanders was a highly regarded young pro rugby player in his native New Zealand who says he never was able to reach his full potential because he was deeply in the closet. Sanders gave an interview to the New Zealand Herald where he detailed his fears of being found out. "I kept it to […]
By Jim Buzinski | January 27, 2014Openly gay Australian snowboarder Belle Brockhoff says she will have plenty to say to Russian President Vladimir Putin after her event concludes at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. "After I compete, I'm willing to rip on his ass," she said. "I'm not happy and there's a bunch of other Olympians who are not happy either." […]
By Jim Buzinski | January 24, 2014