Olympics

Students and national governing bodies hear about LGBT athletes, while the Warwick Rowing Club again gets naked to fight homophobia

The anti-gay laws in Russia and their relationship to the Olympics continue to be a major story: Olympics: Boycott won't help gay rights, say ski champs | GlobalPostBoycotting the Winter Olympics in Sochi would do little to help gay rights in Russia, the world's top skiers said, asking that sports remain free of politics. Sochi: […]

National Governing Bodies from dozens of sports participated in conversations about gender, disabilities and sexual orientation

Figure skater Johnny Weir made official what had been apparent since he said last month he would not be trying out for the U.S. Olympic team in Sochi, Russia — he's retiring. Weir, 29, announced his retirement at the same time he took a job as an analyst for NBC's Olympics coverage. Anyone hoping that […]

Harri Tikkanen is a 15-year-veteran in the Finnish Hockey League, the most popular sports league in Finland, and he showed his support for gay players by putting a rainbow decal on his stick during a match this weekend. This is the first time any Finnish athlete has displayed a gay rights symbol. It came after […]

David Kopay, Jason Collins, Brendon Ayanbadejo, Billy Bean and Kirk Walker joined other Angelenos Tuesday night in support of Olympic speed skater Blake Skjellerup

Amnesty International and GO! Athletes rallied to support LGBT Olympic athletes and Russian citizens

The German Winter Olympics team unveiled its uniforms in Dusseldorf this week, prompting one newspaper to label them "a cross between a pot-bellied pig and a parrot." Others saw the rainbow in them, suggesting they were a protest against Russia's anti-gay laws. Not so, the German Olympic committee said. The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), […]

Wagner speaks out at U.S. Olympic gathering, while Lysacek is in the majority who refuse to take a stand.

The bad boy of downhill skiing speaks strongly in support of the LGBT community

The International Olympic Committee said that new anti-gay laws passed in Russia don't violate the Olympic charter and that there will be no discrimination, drawing condemnation from gay rights groups. The comments came during a site visit to Sochi, site of the Winter Olympics, by Jean-Claude Killy, chairman of the IOC's Co-ordination Commission. "The Olympic […]

The openly gay speed skater from New Zealand is taking the first of four concrete steps toward Olympic qualification

The openly gay speed skater from New Zealand is taking the first of four concrete steps toward Olympic qualification

How small is the possibility that there are no gay footballers in the UK? It's as close to zero as you can get without being zero

Championship track & field and cross-country coach Micah Porter talks to Outsports about being a gay high school coach in Denver

With Sochi closed to them, the Russian LGBT Sport Federation will hold Open Games event in Moscow. Co-chair Konstantin Yablotskiy criticizes the IOC for silencing LGBT supporters. "Human rights are not politics."

Openly gay figure skater Johnny Weir has been getting a lot of attention for his views on Russia's anti-gay laws in view of the upcoming Sochi Winter Olympics, but he won't be attending as an athlete. From the Associated Press: U.S. Figure Skating confirmed Tuesday that Weir did not register for the qualifiers for the […]

Brittany and Robbie Ross talk about being Christian and loving their LGBT friends in part because of their religious beliefs.

By creating generic 'anti-discrimination' language, the United Nations masks over the discrimination of LGBT people and gives cover to problematic nations like Russia

American gold medal Olympic snowboader Seth Wescott has become the latest athlete to denounce Russia's new anti-gay laws in the run-up to the Sochi Winter Games. "The human rights stuff that's going on, there's a potential for it to be an incredibly negatively overshadowed Olympics," Westcott, 37, told The Associated Press.Westcott told the AP that […]