LGBT sports winners and losers of 2019
Here’s a look back at the latter half of the year in LGBT sports coverage so far.
By Dawn Ennis | August 17, 2019Here’s a look back at the latter half of the year in LGBT sports coverage so far.
By Dawn Ennis | August 17, 2019South African Olympian Caster Semenya has had a tougher time in the courts than in any race she’s run.
By Dawn Ennis | August 17, 2019Each week, Outsports’ managing editor selects the heroes and goats from the past seven days of LGBT sports coverage.
By Dawn Ennis | August 17, 2019The circular speculation that Beckham is gay does no one any good and is, at this point, desperately unfair to OBJ.
By Cyd Zeigler | August 16, 2019Nicky Bandini came out as transgender in The Guardian, a newspaper with a history of questionable coverage. As I’ve learned, there’s reason to be proud and wary.
By Dawn Ennis | August 16, 2019After meeting with Pirates owner Robert Nutting, his publisher walked back some troublesome language referring to the LGBTQ community.
By Ken Schultz | August 15, 2019“Whoever’s going to stop me from running,” Semenya told a women’s conference in Johannesburg, “he’s going to have to drag me out of the track.”
By Dawn Ennis | August 15, 2019Transgender athlete Chris Mosier says he didn’t break his stride when a random man hurled an anti-gay slur at him during a workout.
By Daniel Villarreal | August 14, 2019Kaitlyn Long left the University of Minnesota as a champion on the field and an advocate off it.
By Jim Buzinski | August 14, 2019From playing football, basketball and running track as a girl, to coaching in the NFL as a woman, Katie Sowers reflects on her path as a lesbian.
By Dawn Ennis | August 14, 2019Cricket Australia, the sport’s national governing body, has unveiled new and inclusive transgender policies.
By Daniel Villarreal | August 14, 2019Kenny Omega and Kota Ibushi’s journey of love was neither the beginning nor the end of LGBTQ pro wrestling’s rise.
By Brian C. Bell | August 13, 2019Brittney Griner and four other players from the Phoenix Mercury and Dallas Wings have been suspended following Saturday night’s incident.
By Daniel Villarreal | August 13, 2019A discussion of transgender high school athletes through a human, and humane, lens.
By Karleigh Webb | August 13, 2019Eric Blevins is a college diving coach who is openly gay, married and now a two-time world champion.
By Jim Buzinski | August 13, 2019Real Salt Lake coach Mike Petke was supposed to be coming off an unpaid suspension for homophobic slurs. Instead he’s out of a job.
By Dawn Ennis | August 12, 2019‘It would help if a player who was young and popular came out’ as gay, Billie Jean King says.
By Jim Buzinski | August 12, 201929-year-old Toni Pressley underwent surgery Friday and will continue treatment with team sponsor Orlando Health.
By Dawn Ennis | August 12, 2019Six players were ejected after a fight broke out during the 4th quarter of the Dallas Wings-Phoenix Mercury WNBA game Saturday.
By Dawn Ennis | August 11, 2019Each week, Outsports’ managing editor selects the heroes and goats from the past seven days of LGBTQ sports coverage.
By Dawn Ennis | August 10, 2019