Pro hockey player Jon Lee-Olsen comes out as gay
Jon Lee-Olsen is one of the first male hockey players in history to come out publicly during his professional career.
By Shelby Weldon | October 7, 2019Jon Lee-Olsen is one of the first male hockey players in history to come out publicly during his professional career.
By Shelby Weldon | October 7, 2019Greg Louganis came back from a traumatic head injury during the 1988 Olympics to win gold.
By Dawn Ennis | October 6, 2019Each week, Outsports’ managing editor selects the heroes and goats from the past seven days of LGBTQ sports coverage.
By Dawn Ennis | October 5, 2019Glenn Burke was the Major League Baseball player who invented the high-five and resisted efforts to hide who he is: a gay man.
By Dawn Ennis | October 4, 2019Trans wrestler Nyla Rose won over the crowd in a losing effort, while Jake Hager debuted fresh off tacitly endorsing transphobia.
By Brian C. Bell | October 4, 2019Houston is an outlier in being the only playoff team to not have a Pride event in 2019.
By Jim Buzinski | October 3, 2019Erica Bougard’s rainbow-flapped Nikes in anti-gay Qatar show the power of visibility in the sports world.
By Cyd Zeigler | October 3, 2019Christian Mays has carried his determination and drive into a career in the Army.
By Jim Buzinski | October 3, 2019The retired NFL fullback came out in 1975, and unknowingly paved the way for many athletes to follow.
By Dawn Ennis | October 3, 2019Who else in sports history has her name on a stadium complex, a library, a bobblehead, an action figure, 12 women’s Grand Slam titles and is lesbian?
By Dawn Ennis | October 3, 2019A PAC-funded attack ad hits a new low by suggesting boys will transition just to win.
By Ken Schultz | October 2, 2019The Washington Mystics forward exited game 2 early with back spasms, forcing her best chance at a WNBA title yet to rest on the result of an MRI.
By Brian C. Bell | October 2, 2019The Chicago Wolves of the AHL will celebrate the LGBTQ community at the team’s first Pride Night on Oct. 19.
By Cyd Zeigler | October 2, 2019No history of out sports athletes can be complete without the two openly gay men who co-founded the world’s leading LGBTQ sports site.
By Dawn Ennis | October 2, 2019Outsports is looking back at 31 key moments in LGBTQ sports history all month long.
By Dawn Ennis | October 1, 2019The all-intergender match event featured numerous LGBTQ wrestlers and showcased the evolution of inclusive pro wrestling.
By Brian C. Bell | October 1, 2019Gay Olympic medalist figure skater Adam Rippon displays his usual charm and poise in the face of clickbait.
By Ken Schultz | October 1, 2019Transgender boxer Patricio Manuel makes history yet again, this time in a revealing Everlast campaign of boxing “trailblazers.”
By Daniel Villarreal | September 30, 2019In an Instagram post, out gay NCAA championship swimmer Abrahm DeVine says Stanford University coaches dropped him because of homophobia.
By Daniel Villarreal | September 30, 2019Each week, Outsports’ managing editor selects the heroes and goats from the past seven days of LGBTQ sports coverage.
By Dawn Ennis | September 28, 2019